The place of arbitration within the Syrian legal system has received scant academic and professional attention, and as such, remains largely unstudied. Shedding much-needed light on the nature of arbitration in Syria as a resilient form of ancient customary Arab alternative dispute resolution, this contribution appraises the salient features of the Syrian Arbitration Law 2008 and arbitration-related provisions within recent Syrian legislation. It aims to understand the position of arbitration in Syria between existing national and international law frameworks for dispute settlement and to assess the potential for establishing independent, transparent, and efficient tribunals to resolve disputes arising out of ongoing conflicts that have plagued the country since 2011. If arbitration proves to be a mechanism for ordering the peaceful settlement of postwar disputes within and concerning Syria, parties, practitioners, and stakeholders must employ perspectives that include and are capable of navigating Syria’s existing arbitration landscape.

叙利亚法律体系中的仲裁地位很少受到学术和专业人士的关注，因此基本上仍未得到研究。本文对叙利亚仲裁作为古代阿拉伯替代性争议解决习惯的一种有弹性的形式的本质进行了急需的阐明，并评估了 2008 年《叙利亚仲裁法》的显着特征以及叙利亚近期立法中与仲裁相关的条款。它旨在了解叙利亚现有的国内和国际争端解决法律框架之间的仲裁地位，并评估建立独立、透明和高效的法庭来解决自 2011 年以来困扰该国的持续冲突所产生的争端的潜力。如果仲裁被证明是一种和平解决叙利亚境内和涉及叙利亚的战后争端的机制，各方、从业者和利益相关者必须采用包括并能够驾驭叙利亚现有仲裁格局的视角。