International Commercial Arbitration as an Alternative Method to Solve International Commercial Disputes

The institute of international commercial arbitration, improving especially in the twentieth century, is considered as an important alternative to resolve disputes. Currently, in international commercial contracts the agreement of which way to choose in order to solve possible disputes, occupies a central role in the contractual provisions as a whole. The rapid development of international trade, the increase of investments in foreign countries that operate each with their own legislations, the need for an agreement to be found as soon as possible and for the process as a whole to respect confidentiality and to apply the rules of procedure in a flexible way represent significant reasons why disputing parties prefer international commercial arbitration to judiciary. The analysis of such advantages as well as of the different types of international commercial arbitration with a special attention to the Albanian law concerning international arbitration will be the focus of our paper.