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AuthorRodolfo Dávalos Fernández
ProfessionPresidente de la Corte Cubana de Arbitraje Comercial Internacional y Profesor Titular de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de La Habana
Pages9-15
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“El arbitraje es libertad”, señala la doctrina evocando a
Pomponio (Chillón Medina y Merino Merchán), y no se trata
de una metáfora, sino tiene un sentido recto, porque el arbi-
traje no solo nace de la autonomía de la voluntad de las par-
tes al elegirlo libremente como medio alternativo para dirimir
sus discordias, sino también esa libertad se manifiesta en la
elección de la modalidad arbitral (administrado o ad-hoc), de
la Corte (caso de haber elegido la primera modalidad), de los
árbitros, de la sede (cuyo papel muchas veces se subestima) y
en libertad de elección de la ley aplicable.
Por supuesto que esa libertad no actúa ex lege, fuera del
alcance de toda ley, sino que actúa como expresión de su re-
conocimiento y protección por el Estado. Lo que puede apre-
ciarse en la reciente Constitución de la República, cuando en
su artículo 93 establece que “el Estado reconoce el derecho
de las personas a resolver sus controversias utilizando méto-
dos alternos de solución de conflictos, de conformidad con la
Constitución y las normas jurídicas que se establezcan a tales
efectos”, y el arbitraje es el medio alternativo de solución de
conflictos por excelencia internacionalmente, porque finali-
za con un laudo equivalente a una sentencia judicial, cuyo
reconocimiento y ejecución no solo está protegido por las le-
yes nacionales de casi todos los ordenamientos jurídicos de los
Estados que conforman la Comunidad Jurídica Internacio-
nal, sino también por un importante tratado internacional:
la Convención sobre Reconocimiento y Ejecución de Laudos
Extranjeros, aprobada en New York en 1958 que, sin temor a
equivocarnos, consta con el mayor número de Estados signa-
tarios y ratificantes que nos muestra el Derecho de Tratados,
solo superado por la Carta de la ONU. Por ello puede afir-

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