PEDRO MARTINEZ FRAGA

Pedro Martinez-Fraga has drawn upon his many years as a very successful litigator and academic concentrating in international commercial dispute resolution including but clearly not limited to international commercial arbitration. Martinez-Fraga callenges others to see for the first time the contributiones doctrines developed in the United States, principally but not solely pretrial discovery, have had and will continue to have in the worldwide process of creating a comprenhensive approach to international commercial arbitration. The approach taken is historical, descriptive, analytical, critical, optimistic, preceptive and, most important, realistic.

In this work Mr. Martinez-Fraga proposes a novel understanding of the doctrine of comity beyond the classical definition of a precept that is more than a courtesy but not one that rises to the level of a normative obligation. By reconfiguring the doctrine as one that occupies a new normative space with an incident rubric that purports to condition its application on consideration of party autonomy, national interests, and the interests of the international community in devising norms that foster uniformity, reasonableness, party autonomy, and predictive value, comity is raised to the level of a principle capable of unifying private procedural international law with respect to the more salient Anglo-American contributions in this field.

En esta lección, los autores analizan la aportación del derecho de los Estados Unidos al derecho procesal internacional y sugieren una nueva elaboración de la doctrina de comity, que sirva de marco analitico de unificacion juridica. Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga es Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) por St. John''s College, Annapolis (1984), Juris Doctor (J.D.) por la Universidad Columbia de Nueva York (1987) y Profesor Asociado de Derecho Procesal y Arbitraje internacional en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Miami (2003). Daniel E. Vielleville es licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad Catolica Andres Bello en Venezuela (1994), Master of Laws (LL.M.) por la Universidad de Georgia (1996) y Juris Doctor (J.D.) por la Universidad de Miami (2003).