Preliminary Note


The Arbitration Law No. 31 of 2001 in Jordan is mainly derived from the Egyptian Arbitration Act No. 27 of 1994, which is based on the UNCITRAL Model Law of 1985 on International Commercial Arbitration. The current translation of the Jordanian law is an unofficial translation made by the Law and Arbitration Centre in Jordan (LAC), which is a private law firm. Many thanks to Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, who made the unofficial translation of the Egyptian Law. Gratitude is extended to His Excellency Engineer Da’woud Khalaf (of Jordan) for his draft translation of the Jordanian Arbitration Law. Many thanks also to the UNCITRAL Model Law. All of the above were of help to LAC in performing its task.

It is to be noted here that the few annotations on the English text are not part of the Jordanian Arbitration Law, but have been made by the translator(s) for clarity.

For LAC /

Dr. Hamzeh Haddad

January 2002