On 19-21 June 2011, the Club Español del Arbritaje (CEA) held its sixth International Annual Congress. Under the title of "Arbitration in a Global World" the Congress dealt with substantive issues, such as:

Renowned speakers from 11 different countries led the discussions on these topics and the 300 delegates also contributed and shared their experiences.

As in previous years, the under 40s section of the CEA (the CEA-40) took this opportunity to organise its fifth annual get-together. This event, which has traditionally always been held before the Annual CEA Congress, started with a dinner on Saturday 17 June 2011 and continued on Sunday with several panels of national and international speakers dealing with the new international tendencies in arbitration regulations. They tackled both the amendments to national laws (in Spain, France, USA, Mexico and Portugal) and to institutional arbitration rules (UNCITRAL and the ICC).

It is worth noting that both events achieved their biggest attendance rates since they were first held, which proves once more that Spain is becoming a place of reference with regards to arbitration.

During 2011 the CEA has continued with its goal of promoting arbitration in Spanish and Portuguese. The organisation has been growing not only at a national level (with an important increase in its membership, which currently stands at 580), but also at an international level through the creation of the so-called "international chapters" which bring together non-Spanish members and people living abroad. During the first semester of 2011, five new chapters were established, so that there are now 19 international chapters. In particular, the UK Chapter was founded in June 2011, with Mr. Gaetan Verhoosel, co-chair of international arbitration at Covington & Burling, as its president. The group's first meeting was held on 13 June 2011 in London and was attended by approximately 25 arbitration practitioners who were behind its creation.

Finally, during the week of 20-24 June 2011, the University Carlos III of Madrid and UNCITRAL held the third edition of the International Madrid Moot Court Competition on Arbitration and Commercial Law. The competition is aimed at promoting, among law students, the use of international commercial regulations (such as the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods), as well as the use of international arbitration as an alternative dispute resolution method. The competition had a number of teams from universities around the world, as well as renowned professionals in the field of arbitration who acted as arbitrators during the oral phase of the competition. The final took place on 24 June 2011 in one of the hearing rooms of the Madrid Court of Arbitration (which belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry), with the University of Versailles and the University Carlos III of Madrid competing against each other. The awards of the competition were distributed between the University of Versailles (which won best team in the oral competition and best oralist), the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (best claimant's memorandum) and the University Carlos III of Madrid (best respondent's memorandum).