This is a guest post by Dante Figueroa, a senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Dante is a frequent contributor to In Custodia Legis. His recent posts include Introduction to Roman Law – Global Legal Collection Highlights, Introduction to Canon Law – Global Legal Collection Highlights, Resources and Treasures of the Italian Parliamentary Libraries, and A Fresh Update on the Canonical Rules on the Election of a New Pontiff.
January 1 of this year marked the twentieth anniversary of the entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed between the United States, Mexico and Canada. While there are conflicting views on the overall economic impact of NAFTA, I believe that NAFTA had a great impact on Mexico’s culture regarding international commercial and investment arbitration. From a historic reluctance to international arbitration embedded in the Commerce Code of 1889 and the Constitution of 1917, Mexico has witnessed a growing openness to international arbitration.
Growing Openness towards Arbitration in Mexico