Arbitration is largely considered as an extremely effective
alternative dispute resolution method which is nowadays
successfully spread and used worldwide. It is believed that
commercial arbitration has existed since the rise of commerce, and
it came as a necessity for the settlement of the disputes privately
by an impartial authority.
In Albania, after the World War II and installation of the
communist regime, the only trace of arbitration we find is the
vertical controlled state entity called State Arbitrage, whose sole
purpose of functioning was to settle potential disputes between
state entities or enterprises.
After the fall of communism, there was no specific law on
arbitration but the rules governing the domestic arbitration were
incorporated in Title V of the Civil Procedures Code, enacted in
1996. This chapter was based on the UNCITRAL Model Law in
International Commercial Arbitration (1985) aiming to adapt and
modernize the laws on arbitral procedure to
