7.2 Basic Principles and Standards of International Commercial Arbitration

1. The party autonomy — the arbitration's foundation: the agreement's terms (the seat, the rules, the arbitrators, the language); the autonomy's limits (the mandatory rules, the public policy).2. The kompetenz-kompetenz — the tribunal's own-jurisdiction competence (the agreement's validity challenge decided by the arbitrators themselves — the court's secondary role).3. The separability — the arbitration clause's independence from the main contract (the contract's invalidity not automatically the clause's).4. The due process — the fair-hearing standards (the equality, the opportunity-to-be-heard — the due-process paradox's lore).5. The minimal-court-intervention — the support-not-supervise philosophy (the assistance- and-the-narrow-grounds-only).6. The confidentiality-and-the-award's finality — the institutional standards (the UNCITRAL's framework: the Model Law's 1985/2006 face — the world's template; the institutional rules: the ICC-LCIA-SIAC's world).