1. PhD and LLM in Private International Law, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II. Associate Research Professor, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE). Many thanks to Professors Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre, Nadia de Araujo and Diego P. Fernández Arroyo for their comments on an earlier draft of this article. I am also grateful to my friend María Cecilia Brusa for her professional linguistic revision. Any remaining mistakes are my own.