국제상사중재에 있어서 중재합의 방식의 서면성 완화

The principal contents of the UNCITRAL “Revised Model Law” adopted in 2006 relate to the form of the arbitration agreement. The text of the provision on the form of the arbitration agreement in Article 7 of the revised Model Law was modelled on Article Ⅱ (2) of the New York Convention of 1958. The revision of Article 7 is intended to reflect the practice in international trade and technological developments. The document requirements under Article 35(2) were also amended in 2006 to liberalize formal requirements and reflect the amendment made to Article 7 on the form of the arbitration agreement. The Federal Arbitration Act places arbitration agreements on equal footing with other contracts, they are subject to traditional principle of American law allow a contract to be enforced by or against non- signatories to the contract through incorporation by reference, assumption, piercing the corporate veil, alter-ego, third party beneficiary theories. The formation of the rule varies slightly from one judgment to the other. Initially there was a certain insistence on the fact that when the non-signatories had participated in the performance of the contract, and had been aware of the existence of the clause, it was to be presumed that it had accepted to be bound by the clause. The arbitration agreement shall be in writing. An agreement is in writing if it is contained in a document signed by the parties or in an exchange of letters, telex, telegrams or other means of telecommuni- cation which provide a record of the agreement, or in an exchange of statements of claim and defence in which the existence of an agreement is alleged by one party and not denied by another. The reference in a contract to a document containing an arbitration clause constitutes an arbitration agreement provided that the contract is in writing and the reference is such as to make that clause part of the contract.