ALLOCATION OF CYBER RISK BETWEEN ARBITRAL INSTITUTIONS AND PARTIES UNDER UZBEK CIVIL LAW: TOWARDS A STATUTORY FRAMEWORK

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The increasing reliance of international commercial arbitration on digital infrastructure has created a new and largely unresolved category of legal risk: the cyber incident that disrupts, compromises, or destroys data held by an arbitral institution or by the parties themselves. When a ransomware attack encrypts an institution's case-management platform, when a state-sponsored intrusion exfiltrates confidential pleadings, or when a party's own systems are breached and evidence is altered, the question of who bears the resulting financial and procedural loss becomes acute. Yet no jurisdiction has enacted legislation that directly addresses the allocation of cyber risk in the arbitral context, and Uzbekistan is no exception.