Arbitration in the Electronic Commerce Contract in the Arab Legislations

Zubida Atim

Abstract

This study aims at discussing the concept of arbitration in the electronic commerce contract in the Arab, legislations, Providing definitions and characteristics of the electronic contract and arbitration and the most important principles relating to arbitration as an alternative means of dispute resolution. In particular that the different nationalities of the parties to the commercial contract and their place of residence, causes many complications and problems for the law applicable to the dispute and the court competent to hear the dispute, so the parties to the electronic contract choose arbitration to resolve their contractual disputes. Therefore, this study was to identify the legal system of arbitration in the contract of electronic commerce in Arab legislation And the binding force statement of the judgments of the Arab arbitral tribunals in a comparative study with the Model Law on International Arbitration. The study recommends the necessity of explicitly stating in the Arab arbitration systems the application of arbitration rules to the electronic contract.