international arbitration agreements as well as the principle of separability
of the arbitration agreement. It deals with the law governing the arbitration
agreement as well as the rules of interpretation of such agreements. Chapter 6 sets out
the positions taken by arbitral institutions and state courts in important
arbitration countries spanning from Europe, China, and England to the
United States. The author takes the position and explains why the New
York Convention should be interpreted as requiring contracting states to
permit arbitrators to consider and make non-binding decisions regarding
their own jurisdiction