The analysis of Álvaro Castellanos Howel in the article published in the Eleconomista.com Blogs section focuses on the need for the state judicial system to understand its role in assisting and working with arbitration and dispute resolution systems.

Castellanos Howel said that "there is a basic concept: If the parties have properly decided on arbitration, it must be arbitrators and not judges who resolve their dispute. The latter must understand that they should limit themselves to assisting the arbitrators in the respective proceedings."

Source: ElEconomista.net

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