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Wolfgang Alschner

University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

Assistant Professor

57 Louis Pasteur Street

Ottawa, K1N 6N5

Canada

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1.

Forget About the WTO: The Network of Relations between Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) and 'Double PTAs'

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 30 May 2014
Joost Pauwelyn and Wolfgang Alschner
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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regional trade agreements, plurilateral trade agreements, WTO, network analysis, relation between treaties, fragmentation of international law, multilateralising regionalism

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Interpreting Investment Treaties as Incomplete Contracts: Lessons from Contract Theory

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 31 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2013
Wolfgang Alschner
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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International Investment Law, Incomplete Contracts, Arbitration, Interpretation

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Americanization of the BIT Universe: The Influence of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (FCN) Treaties on Modern Investment Treaty Law

Goettingen Journal of International Law, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2013)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 03 May 2014
Wolfgang Alschner
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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bilateral investment treaties, investment law, FCN treaties, second generation

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The Role of International Investment Agreements in Fostering Sustainable Development

Baetens, F., (Ed.), Investment Law Within International Law: Integrationist Perspectives (CUP 2013)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 20 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2013
Wolfgang Alschner and Elisabeth Tuerk
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
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Investment law, investment treaties, sustainable development, UNCTAD, IPFSD

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The Return of the Home State and the Rise of ‘Embedded’ Investor-State Arbitration

Forthcoming in S. Lalani/ R. Polanco (eds), The Role of The State in Investor-State Arbitration (Martinus Nijhoff/BRILL, 2014)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 May 2014
Wolfgang Alschner
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Investment Law, Arbitration, Investor-State Arbitration, Depoliticization

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Regionalism and Overlap in Investment Treaty Law – Towards Consolidation or Contradiction?

Journal of International Economic Law 17(2), pp. 271-298 (2014)
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 30 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2016
Wolfgang Alschner
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Arbitration, Trade Law, Investment Law, Overlap, Fragmentation

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Consistency and Legal Innovation in the BIT Universe

Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2595288
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2015
Wolfgang Alschner and Dmitriy Skougarevskiy
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
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Bilateral investment treaties, international investment law, international law, text as data

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Amicable Settlements of WTO Disputes: Bilateral Solutions in a Multilateral System

World Trade Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2013
Wolfgang Alschner
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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WTO, Dispute Settlement, Mutually Agreed Solutions, Amicable Settlements, Memorandum of Understanding

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Aligning Loss and Liability – Towards an Integrated Assessment of Damages in Investment Arbitration

Theresa Carpenter, Marion Jansen and Joost Pauwelyn (eds.), "The Use of Economics in International Trade Disputes: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead", Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Feb 2015
Wolfgang Alschner
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Damage calculation, valuation, international investment arbitration, WTO

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What Can the Negotiations of NAFTA 1.0 Teach Us About the Fate of NAFTA 2.0?

Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2018-05
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2018
Wolfgang Alschner, Rama Panford-Walsh and Dmitriy Skougarevskiy
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, Students and European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
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NAFTA, investment law, negotiation, negotiation history, renegotiation, text-as-data, computational analysis

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The Investment Component in Trade Agreements

in: Robert Looney (ed.), "Routledge Handbook in International Trade Agreements", Forthcoming.
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 27 Dec 2017
Wolfgang Alschner
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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investment protection, trade agreements, investment chapters, arbitration

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Champions of Protection? A Text-as-Data Analysis of the Bilateral Investment Treaties of GCC Countries

International Review of Law, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2016
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2017
Wolfgang Alschner, Dmitriy Skougarevskiy and Mengyi Wang
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar
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GCC, Gulf States, Investment Policy, Investment Treaties, Empirical, Text-as-Data, Gulf Cooperation Council, Arab, Arab World, Investment, Middle East, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain

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Convergence and Divergence in the Investment Treaty Universe – Scoping the Potential for Multilateral Consolidation

Trade, Law & Development, Vol. 8, No.2, 2016, pp. 152-183, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2017-38
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2017
Wolfgang Alschner and Dmitriy Skougarevskiy
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
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Investment Law, Investment Treaties, Convergence, Multilateral, Multilateralization, Consolidation, Text-as-Data, Empirical

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The Data-Driven Future of International Economic Law

Forthcoming, 20 Journal of International Economic Law (2017:2, 217-231) as Introduction to Special Issue on New Frontiers In Empirical Legal Research: Text-As-Data And Network Analysis Of International Economic Law
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Jul 2017
Wolfgang Alschner, Joost Pauwelyn and Sergio Puig
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) and University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
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empirical legal scholarship, big data, international economic law, BIT, WTO, free trade agreements

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Text-as-Data Analysis of Preferential Trade Agreements: Mapping the PTA Landscape

Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2017-32, UNCTAD Research Paper No. 5, UNCTAD/SER.RP/2017/5
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2017
Wolfgang Alschner, Julia Seiermann and Dmitriy Skougarevskiy
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Students and European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
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preferential trade agreements, free trade agreements, text-as-data, similarity, computational analysis of law, trade law, WTO

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Towards an Automated Production of Legal Texts Using Recurrent Neural Networks

16th International Conference Artificial Intelligence and Law, Conference Proceedings, June 2017, pp. 229-332., Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2017-27
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 18 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2017
Wolfgang Alschner and Dmitriy Skougarevskiy
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
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recurrent neural network, artificial intelligence, law, document production, investment treaties, international law

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Can Robots Write Treaties? Using Recurrent Neural Networks to Draft International Investment Agreements

in F. Bex and S. Villata (eds.), JURIX: Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, IOS Press, 2016, pp. 119-114.
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 14 Jun 2017
Wolfgang Alschner and Dmitriy Skougarevskiy
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
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recurrent neural network, investment treaties, machine learning, legal drafting, text-as-data, artificial intelligence

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Locked in Language: Historical Sociology and the Path Dependency of Investment Treaty Design

in: M.Hirsch & A. Lang (eds)., Edward Elgar Research Handbook on the Sociology of International Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Mar 2017
Wolfgang Alschner
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Investment Law, Investment Treaties, Investment Agreements, Path Dependency, Historical Sociology, Fair and Equitable Treatment, Text as Data, Computational Analysis, Law & Language

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The Growing Complexity of the International Court of Justice's Self-Citation Network: Institutional Achievement or Access-to-Justice Concern?

European Journal of International Law (Forthcoming), University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 59/2016
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2017
Wolfgang Alschner and Damien Charlotin
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, Students
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ICJ, International Court of Justice, Citation Network, Precedent, Text as data, Computational Analysis of Law, Network Analysis

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The New Gold Standard? Empirically Situating the TPP in the Investment Treaty Universe

Journal of World Investment & Trade, Vol. 17, pp. 339-373
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Aug 2016
Wolfgang Alschner and Dmitriy Skougarevskiy
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
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Transpacific Partnership, TPP, investment, text as data

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Mapping the Universe of International Investment Agreements

Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2016, pp. 561-588.
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2017
Wolfgang Alschner and Dmitriy Skougarevskiy
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
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International Investment Agreements, Bilateral Investment Treaties, Text as Data, Computational Analysis of Law

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Rule-Takers or Rule-Makers? A New Look at African Bilateral Investment Treaty Practice

TDM Special Issue on Int'l Arbitration involving Commercial and Investment Disputes in Africa (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Jun 2016
Wolfgang Alschner and Dmitriy Skougarevskiy
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
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The Impact of Investment Arbitration on Investment Treaty Design: Myth versus Reality

The Impact of Investment Arbitration on Investment Treaty Design: Myth versus Reality, Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2017, pp. 1-66.
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 18 May 2016 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2017
Wolfgang Alschner
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Investor-state Arbitration, Bilateral Investment Treaties, Impact, Rule-making