Academic Publications

Universidad El Externado, 2021, 364 pages
Edited by José Manuel Álvarez Zárate and Katia Fach Gómez

This new volume in the International Economic Law Collection of the University of Externado (Colombia) is produced in co-edition with the University of Zaragoza (Spain). It brings together nine studies examining the relevance of party autonomy and its legislative, doctrinal, and jurisprudential development within International Economic Law. From a range of perspectives—and applying a comparative-law approach between Latin American and European scholarship—the authors explore party autonomy as a principle that helps determine judicial competence and select the applicable law when disputes arise in international commercial contracting.

In this context, the research offers an in-depth analysis of party autonomy and introduces significant innovations, including the incorporation of economic-law analysis tools and their comparison with established legal theories taken up by Private International Law. Although this liberal-tradition principle has been widely discussed, it continues to pose major challenges for contemporary legal practitioners in the age of globalization.