International Arbitration in Latin America features:
- a comprehensive and thorough overview of commercial arbitration in Latin America;
- a detailed analysis of the law and insight from local practitioners from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela;
- a brief look at the rules and peculiarities of the proposed Mercosur International Commercial Arbitration Agreements entered into by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Chile, whose eventual ratification and coming into force is contemplated;
- an examination of the adoption of arbitration as a method of dispute resolution for investors against states under bilateral investment treaties, over 300 of which have now been signed in the region;
- the text of the key sections of the international conventions to which reference is made (Panama Convention, NAFTA, Mercosur); and,
- a description of the increasing use of alternative dispute resolution in Latin America and how it might be bes used as a complement for arbitration proceedings, with an emphasis on complex projects where staged dispute resolution might be appropriate.