Join­ing Non-signatory Third Parties to Ar­bit­ra­tion Agree­ments in Jordan

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Yazan Al Maaiteh’s art­icle in the Journ­al of In­ter­na­tion­al Ar­bit­ra­tion ad­dresses the legal frame­work gov­ern­ing ar­bit­ra­tion agree­ments in Jordan and the extent to which non-signatory third parties may be brought within them and into ar­bit­ra­tion pro­ceed­ings. It states that Jord­ani­an courts have broadened ar­bit­ra­tion clauses to reach parties not dir­ectly bound by the con­tract, which has promp­ted debate about the clar­ity and op­er­a­tion of the Ar­bit­ra­tion Law; it also con­siders in­ter­na­tion­al in­stru­ments such as the Model Law and the ICSID Con­ven­tion, to­geth­er with the doc­trine of priv­ity of con­tract, in ar­guing for a more com­pre­hens­ive frame­work.