It offers lawmakers a guide with which to customise their own domestic law concerning international arbitration disputes. It is considered as a good example of 'soft law', i.e., an instrument of normative nature with no legally binding force and which is applied only through voluntary acceptance.19 It provides lawmakers with a text that they can easily incorporate into their domestic legislation on arbitration. It was designed to be adopted by states without the need for substantial additional effort. When jurisdictions incorporate the provisions of the Model Law they are modernising their legal frameworks according to a prototype which is the result of much study and discussion.