Brief Bio

David Schneiderman is Professor of Law and Political Science (courtesy) at the University of Toronto where he teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law and on international investment law. He has been visiting Professor of Law at National University of Singapore, Gothenburg University, University of Stockholm, Tel Aviv University, Georgetown University, Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. He is the author of over 80 articles and book chapters and also the author or editor of fifteen books, including Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization: Investment Rules and Democracy’s Promise (2008), Resisting Economic Globalization: Critical Theory and International Investment Law (2013), Red, White and Kind of Blue? The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture (2015), Investment Law’s Alibis: Colonialism, Imperialism, Debt and Development (Cambridge UP, 2022), Constitutional Review and International Investment Law: Deference or Defiance? (Oxford UP, 2024), and A Sociology of International Investment Law: Themes from Max Weber (Oxford UP, 2026).

Courses taught at CTLS

• International Investment Law: A New Global Constitutional Order? (Spring 2021)