International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration

The Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (I.C.C.) was created in 1923.Since then, it has become the forum for some of the most important international commercial disputes.By 1984, the total number of cases filed with the I.C.C. Court of Arbitration had reached five thousand.The development of the I.C.C., however, has not been a constant one.Its activities have boomed during the last ten years.By July, 1976, 2978 requests for arbitration had been filed with the I.C.C.This means that more than forty percent of the cases were filed during the last ten years, while it had taken fifty years for the remaining sixty percent to be filed.For the period between 1962 and 1965, the average number of cases submitted to the Court of Arbitration was 64 cases per year.Between 1972 and 1975, the number grew to 153 cases per year.