一、国际仲裁协议一百多年来,美国立法局司法部门对国际仲裁的偏见是颇深的。直至七十年代初美国仲裁法的通过,才显示美国现代公共政策开始注重国际仲裁的理论与实践。美国国会认为,仲裁法的通过有助于合同当事人可以摆脱昂贵的费用,旷日持久的诉讼程序,并使仲裁协议与其他合约处于相同的法律地位。美国仲裁法的通过亦表明 I. International Arbitration Agreements For more than a hundred years, the prejudices on international arbitration by the judicial branch of the United States Legislative Council have been quite deep. Until the passage of the United States Arbitration Law in the early 1970s, it showed that the modern public policy in the United States began to pay more attention to the theory and practice of international arbitration. The United States Congress believes that the adoption of the Arbitration Law will help the parties to the contract get out of costly, protracted proceedings and leave the arbitration agreement in the same legal position as the other contracts. The passage of the U.S. Arbitration Law also shows