ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines some of the key processes and procedures often adopted in International commercial arbitration (ICA), practices. The supposedly informal and non-judicial settings of ICA trials have been viewed as a site of contested identities across a number of different perspectives which represent essentially intercultural, interdisciplinary, inter-jurisdictional, and most importantly, inter-professional practices. The chapter is based on the assumption that ICA practice has its own integrity, with its own professional culture, which is distinct from its close cousin, litigation. Today, international arbitration is one of the most widely used alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods to resolve commercial disputes. It crucially depends on the parties' agreement to resolve disputes through private adjudication by a arbitrator appointed in accordance with rules of a specific arbitration institution that the parties themselves have agreed to adopt in their contract. The practice of international arbitration has developed in a manner to resolve the disputes with little interference by the courts.
