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The Hague Rules On Third-Party Joinder: A Revised Framework, Emma Macfarlane
The Hague Rules On Third-Party Joinder: A Revised Framework, Emma Macfarlane
Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review
This paper critically assesses the Hague Rules’ stance on third-party joinder. Third-party joinder is an important feature in business human rights disputes. It is a mechanism that victims of human rights abuses can use to bring claims against corporate defendants where the victims do not otherwise have an underlying agreement on which to base their claim. Keeping in line with traditional conceptions of commercial arbitration, the Hague Rules are grounded in party consent to arbitrate. Conceptions of consent therefore have an outsized impact on the universe of parties who can bring actions against corporations before arbitral tribunals for human rights …