Abstract

This article explores how blockchain-based smart contracts and decentralized digital systems fundamentally challenge the traditional notion of the "seat of arbitration," a cornerstone of arbitral law that anchors proceedings to a territorial legal order and defines the procedural framework governing dispute resolution. In decentralized transactions--borderless, pseudonymous, and governed by autonomous code--traditional legal connectors such as party domicile, place of performance, or governing law clauses lose coherence, thereby complicating the determination of procedural law (lex ...