This segment addresses the general principles and international treaties, national arbitration legislation, national court’s decisions, institutional arbitration rules, arbitral awards and the international consensus on the competence-competence doctrine.

This segment addresses the role of competence-competence in the allocation of jurisdictional competence under to decide jurisdictional disputes.

This segment addresses the interlocutory judicial determination of jurisdictional disputes and the prima facie standard.

This segment addresses the the interlocutory and the prima facie standards and explains what is the better approach.

This segment addresses the preclusive effects of jurisdictional determinations under various national arbitration legislations.

This segment addresses the preclusive effects of jurisdictional determinations under the UNCITRAL Model Law.

This segment addresses the agreement to finally resolve jurisdictional disputes by arbitration, and analyses the First Options decision and subsequent U.S. decisions.

This segment addresses the criticism and the justification of the First Options decision.

This segment contains some final remarks on the agreement to finally resolve jurisdictional disputes by arbitration and the procedure for an arbitral tribunal’s exercise of competence-competence (decisions as a preliminary matter or as a final award) under national arbitration legislation, the Ne...

This segment contains some final remarks on the procedure for an arbitral tribunal’s exercise of competence-competence and the future directions of competence-competence in international arbitration.