仲裁协议不仅是当事人自愿接受仲裁的唯一书面证据,也是仲裁机构取得管辖权的法律依据. 根据1958《承认及执行外国仲裁裁决公约》(以下简称1958年《纽约公约》)第2条的规定,仲裁协议的形式一般表现为两种:一种是仲裁条款,是当事人在合同中表示愿意把将来可能发生的争议交付仲裁解决;另一种是仲裁协议,在主合同之外,当事人双方另行签订的或包含在往来函电中的表示愿意将争议交付仲裁的合同书. 仲裁协议的法律适用如何直接关系到仲裁协议是否有效、仲裁机构是否享有管辖权,主要与当事人的缔约能力、仲裁协议形式上的有效性、仲裁协议实质上的有效性等问题密切相关. 补充、修改和完善我国关于仲裁协议法律适用的立法,应该采用“分割论”的方法,将仲裁协议诸多方面的问题依性质的不同分别适用不同的法律,我们认为,将国际商事仲裁协议分解成当事人缔约能力、协议有效性、争议事项可仲裁性三个方面比较适当,并分别为其制定法律适用规则. 确立以当事人意思自治优先,以仲裁地法国为补充的仲裁协议有效性的法律适用原则. 这一制度设计能够较好体现国际商事仲裁协议的特征以及我国目前国际商事仲裁的实践,进一步促进我国仲裁业的发展.
The arbitration agreement is not only the only written evidence of the parties' voluntary acceptance of arbitration, but also the legal basis for the jurisdiction of the arbitration institution. According to the second articles of the 1958 Convention on the recognition and enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (hereinafter referred to as the 1958 New York Convention), the form of the arbitration agreement is generally expressed in two types: one is arbitration. A clause in which a party expresses a willingness to deliver a dispute that is likely to happen in the future; the other is an arbitration agreement, a contract that is otherwise signed by the parties or is included in the correspondence and is willing to deliver the dispute to arbitration in addition to the main contract. How the application of the arbitration agreement is directly related to the validity of the arbitration agreement and the jurisdiction of the arbitration institution is closely related to the parties' ability to contract, the validity of the arbitration agreement, and the substantive validity of the arbitration agreement. To supplement, modify and perfect the legislation applicable to the law of arbitration agreement, we should adopt the method of “the theory of division” to apply the various aspects of the arbitration agreement to different laws in accordance with the nature of the arbitration agreement. We believe that the international commercial arbitration agreement is decomposed into the parties' ability to contract, the validity of the agreement, and the dispute. The three aspects of item arbitrability are appropriate, and laws applicable rules are formulated respectively. The principle of law applicable to the validity of arbitration agreement supplemented by arbitration in France is established. The design of this system can better reflect the characteristics of the international commercial arbitration agreement and the practice of international commercial arbitration in our country, and further promote the development of China's arbitration industry.