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 Gothenburg University, University of Stockholm, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jersualem, 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 twelve books, including Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization: Investment Rules and Democracy’s Promise (2008), Resisting Economic Globalization: Critical Theory and International Investment Law (2013) and, most recently, Red, White and Kind of Blue? The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture (2015). He is at work on a book manuscript with the preliminary title Lineages of Investment Law: Colonialism, Imperialism and Debt.

Courses taught at CTLS

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