Dr. Wolfgang Alschner is an empirical legal scholar specialized in international economic law and the computational analysis of law.  He is co-founder of the investment treaty analytics portal www.mappinginvestmenttreaties.com and his research focuses on using social and computer science methods in order to empirically investigate international law.
In this interview we discuss the emerging field of empirical legal analysis, what impacts computer technology can have on the study and interpretation of the law, and the implications of incorporating AI and machine learning into a legal career.