Abstract:Arbitration has been one of the important means to settle the disputes since ancient times and plays a more valuable role in wider fields nowadays. Arbitration must basically rely upon arbitration agreements. Several treaties like the New York Convention and legislation of mass jurisdictions allow judicial review for disputes arising from the validity or scope of arbitration agreements. So far as the legal rules for the phases of judicial review concerning the above disputes, no uniform standard exists because of no binding international obligations. Generally speaking, some countries like France and Switzerland ban or restrict judicial review for the disputes involving arbitration agreements before arbitral awards have been created and other countries or regions have no similar prohibitions or restrictions. There are many flaws in Chinese legal system for the phases of judicial review concerning the disputes about arbitration agreements, including the availability of the challenge for the validity of arbitration agreements before the first hearing meeting of the courts, no clear rule for the possibility of continuance of arbitral proceedings during the period of judicial review, and no provision for the status of arbitral institutes’decisions for the disputes about arbitration agreements prior to judicial review. The Mainland China should mainly revise its Arbitration Act to remedy those flaws mentioned above by referencing to overseas good rules.