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Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform: New Treaties, Old Outcomes. By Wolfgang Alschner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 352 pages.

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Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform: New Treaties, Old Outcomes. By Wolfgang Alschner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 352 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2023

Laurence Marquis
Laurence Marquis*
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Professeure adjointe / Assistant Professor, Université de Sherbrooke [email protected]
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Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 60 , November 2023 , pp. 460 - 466
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References

1 Alschner, Wolfgang, Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform: New Treaties, Old Outcomes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022) at 3.Google Scholar

2 Ibid at xviii.

3 Ibid.

4 Copper Mesa Mining Corporation v Republic of Ecuador, PCA No 2012-2, Award (15 March 2016) at paras 6.58–6.67; Bear Creek Mining Corporation v Republic of Peru, ICSID Case No ARB/14/ 21, Award (30 November 2017) at paras 459–74.

5 Alschner, supra note 1 at 7.

6 Ibid at xviii.

7 Wolfgang Alschner, “From a Backlash against Investment Arbitration to a Backlash by Investment Arbitrators?,” Kluwer Arbitration Blog (4 July 2022), online: <https://arbitrationblog.kluwerarbitration.com/2022/07/04/from-a-backlash-against-investment-arbitration-to-a-backlash-by-investment-arbitrators/>.

8 Wolfgang Alschner & Florencia Sarmiento, “An Interview with Wolfgang Alschner on Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform: New Treaties, Old Outcomes,” Investment Treaty News (4 July 2022), online: <www.iisd.org/itn/en/2022/07/04/an-interview-with-wolfgang-alschner-on-investment-arbitration-and-state-driven-reform-new-treaties-old-outcomes-wolfgang-alschner-florencia-sarmiento/>.

9 Waibel, Michael et al, The Backlash against Investment Arbitration: Perceptions and Reality (The Hague: Kluwer, 2011).Google Scholar

10 Alschner & Sarmiento, supra note 8.

11 Alschner, supra note 1 at 24.

12 North American Free Trade Agreement, 17 December 1992, Can TS 1994 No 2 (1993) 32 ILM 289 (entered into force 1 January 1994).

13 Ibid at 41; Suha Jubran-Ballan, “Investment Treaty Arbitration and Institutional Backgrounds: An Empirical Study” (2016) 34 Wis Intl LJ 31; Suha Jubran-Ballan, “How Institutions Matter: On the Judicial Reasoning of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards” (2018) 41 Houston J Intl L 57.

14 Alschner & Sarmiento, supra note 8.

15 Alschner & Sarmiento, supra note 8.

16 Alschner, supra note 1 at 16.

17 Alschner & Sarmiento, supra note 8.

18 Alschner, supra note 1 at 19.

19 Ibid at 237; Windstream Energy LLC v Government of Canada, PCA Case No 2013-22, Transcript of Hearing, Day 1, Remarks by Ms Tabet, Counsel of Canada (15 February 2016) at 147–48, online: <www.italaw.com/sites/default/files/case-documents/italaw7361.pdf>.

20 Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, 8 March 2018, ch 9, online: <www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/tpp-ptp/text-texte/toc-tdm.aspx?lang=eng> (entered into force 30 December 2018).