Georgios I Zekos is an Attorney at law & Economist, Greece.

• 1. The historical emergence of arbitration as a dispute Mechanism and its characteristics  2. National Courts in International commercial arbitration  3. The role of courts in commercial-maritime arbitration in us law  4. The Role of Courts in Commercial-Maritime arbitration in English Law  5. The role of courts in commercial –maritime arbitration in Greek Law  6. The Role of courts in Commercial-Maritime arbitration in Belgian law  7. Comparative analysis of the role of courts in US, English, Belgian and Greek law  8. Arbitration co-equal and fully alternative to courts