The craft of international arbitration: shown, not told.

Playbooks, annotated templates and video walkthroughs that reveal the judgment, strategy and craft of international arbitration, created for disputes lawyers across Africa.

Beyond procedure: the decisions, techniques and habits of thought that define accomplished practice.

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The finest advocacy is learned by watching it done.

The most valuable lessons in arbitration are rarely written down: how a persuasive submission takes shape, how an effective cross-examination is prepared, when to press a point and when to let it go. This is craft, and craft must be seen and shown, not merely described.

Abdulai on Arbitration makes that craft visible: the techniques, judgment and working methods of international arbitration practice, shared openly with every disputes lawyer on the continent.

How it teaches

Learning that works the way experience does.

Each module asks you to do something and discover, not simply read about it.

Annotated templates

Complete working documents with margin commentary explaining every drafting choice, paired with the refined version.

Decision points

Realistic scenarios that require you to commit to a course of action before revealing where each path leads, and why.

Video walkthroughs

Documents marked up on screen, techniques demonstrated, replayed and explained.

The Africa overlay

Seats, institutions, courts and enforcement across the continent's leading centres, grounded in practice.

The library

Thirteen modules. The whole life of a dispute.

From the clause that begins a dispute to the award that ends it, every stage mapped with practical guidance, annotated templates and considered trade-offs.

The Arbitration Clause
Dispute Crystallisation & Case Assessment
Commencing Proceedings
Tribunal Appointment
Defending Proceedings
The Procedural Conference & Case Management
Written Advocacy
Witnesses
Experts
Hearing Logistics
Hearing Advocacy
Settlement Negotiation
Award, Challenge & Enforcement
For firms & chambers

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Founding Firms gain advantages that compound over time: early access to every module, influence over the build order, and pricing held for three years. For firms investing in arbitration capability, this is the most strategic way to begin, securing benefits that grow as the library does.

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  • 40% off standard licence pricing, locked for three years
  • Priority access to new modules as they are released
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  • Limited to twenty firms
Rashida Abdulai, founder of Abdulai on Arbitration

The Founder

Rashida Abdulai

Rashida Abdulai is a prominent international arbitration lawyer specialising in commercial and investment arbitration, with a strong focus on matters tied to African operations. She has guided clients through high-stakes arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA and ICSID rules in sectors including energy and natural resources, telecommunications, consumer goods and financial services, as well as the court proceedings that often accompany them. A solicitor-advocate of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, she read law at King's College London and holds an LL.M. from New York University.

She created Abdulai on Arbitration to share, openly and in practical form, the craft she has spent a career learning by watching it done: how a persuasive case is built, how a negotiation is won, and what makes a submission a tribunal can act on. Alongside her own modules, the library features conversations with arbitrators, advocates and experts who shape how these disputes are decided, each invited to demonstrate their craft, not merely discuss it.

The library is being built now.

Join the waitlist for early-access pricing, complimentary annotated templates as they are released, and first notice when Module 1 ships.

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