Originally from World Arbitration And Mediation Review (WAMR)

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I. INTRODUCTION
Since 2003, Spain has had an arbitration law based on the
1985 UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial
Arbitration (Model Law).1 Recently the Spanish Arbitration Law
was modified to introduce some changes, most of them with the
purpose of promoting Spain as a seat of international arbitration.
Law 11/2011 of May 20, 20112 introduced several changes to
the Spanish arbitration regime, most of which are discussed in
this paper. In a single article, Law 11/2011 modified multiple
provisions of the Law 60/2003 of December 23, 2003,3 regulating
arbitration in Spain.
Some of the most important changes introduced by Law
11/2011 involve the new allocation of State Courts’ jurisdiction as
it affects the court’s intervention in arbitration; the clarification as
to the arbitrability of corporate disputes; the regime regulating
arbitral institutions and the arbitrators’ qualifications; the
requirements applicable to the language of the arbitration
proceedings; the regulation of the arbitral award, including the
timeframes and ability to issue dissenting opinions; the regulation
of interim measures; and the regulation of arbitration in the
context of insolvency proceedings.
The goal of this paper is to present the main features of
arbitration in Spain, including both the substantive changes made