Through extensive data and case analyses, this book examines the scope of the principle of arbitrability in international commercial arbitration. Its particular emphases is on the extent of its applicability on commercial claims, which, though forming part of private dispute settlement agreements by arbitration, have usually remained excluded from the jurisdiction of arbitration tribunals. The book begins with a conceptual study of the principle and its historical development, as well as the underlying considerations generally advanced to support limitations to arbitrability. The main areas...