CBAr-ABEArb Survey 2016

In April 2014, the Brazilian Arbitration Committee, resuming the 2007 survey and this time in partnership with the Brazilian Association of Arbitration Students (ABEArb), restarted the empirical case law research project, aimed at investigating the relationship between arbitration and the Judiciary in Brazil, with the objective of understanding how Brazilian judges apply the provisions of Law 9,307/96. As in the previous survey, the current survey is being developed in two phases:

1. The first phase, which began in April 2014, is focused on assembling a database containing all judicial decisions from state courts and higher courts (excluding the labor sphere, FGTS surveys and Special Courts) related to arbitration. The aim is to identify decisions issued between February 2008 (except for São Paulo, whose initial term is December 2007) and June 2016.

2. In the second phase, which will begin as soon as the database is consolidated, the decisions will be analyzed in depth to verify how the provisions of the arbitration law are being applied. To this end, the decisions will be divided into several thematic groups, to be reported in due course.

The research reports will be made available on the CBAr website as soon as they are completed. The research is coordinated by Daniel Tavela Luís, Gustavo Santos Kulesza and Laura França Pereira, and the researchers are Ana Letícia Paranhos, Luisa Biscaro Storani, Felipe Lima Matthes, Giovani Ravagnani and Lucas Farah.