The passing of Law No. 20257 radically modified the regulation of arbitration in the Uruguayan Procedural Code. These amendments –which had, in many cases, been repeatedly advocated for by Uruguayan legal scholars over the years– include the repealing of the widely criticized requirement to enter into a “compromiso arbitral”, or submission agreement, and the strengthening of the provisions concerning the Kompetenz-Kompetenz rule, as well as the express clarification that controversies involving public policy rules can be subject to arbitration.
This
article aims to offer a succinct vision of the new legislation, analyzing its
differences with the former Uruguayan provisions and assessing current ones.