Sumário:Legal environment -- Enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards -- Enforcement of domestic awards : competent court. Procedure (highlights). Grounds for objecting enforcement -- Legal definition of an internation arbitral award -- Recognition of international awards : constitucional requirement. Procedure. Requirements to grant recognition. Grounds to deny recognition. Analysis of the recent case law -- Enforcement of recognized awards : competent local federal court. Pre-enforcement measures. Disputes concernig the legal status of a recognized award. Consequence : latitude of the grounds to object enforcement.