La tendencia a favorecer el desarrollo del arbitraje comercial internacional mediante el debilitamiento de las normas internacionalmente imperativas*

In countries that widely promote the development of international commercial arbitration, there is a tendency to favor it by weakening internationally mandatory rules. This article analyzes that tendency in recent French case law on arbitrability and on the international public policy test applied to arbitral awards. it then raises the question of whether that may be an appropriate model for latin american countries that wish to support arbitration without neglecting the state’s fundamental interests. The response to the question is affirmative.