Professor David Collins specialises in the law of the World Trade Organization and international investment law. He heads City Law School’s Digital Trade Research Group and is currently co-editing Routledge’s Handbook on International Economic Law. A former prosecutor for the Attorney General of Ontario, David is a Solicitor of England & Wales and called to the Bars of Ontario and New York.

David is Co-Editor in Chief of the journal International Trade Law and Regulation and Series Editor for Routledge’s Insights on International Economic Law. He has been a visiting academic at many institutions including Columbia, Berkeley, the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown, the World Trade Institute in Bern and the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg. His research has attracted funding from the British Academy, the ESRC, the EPSRC and the Society of Legal Scholars. David is a former winner of the LCIA’s Gillis Wetter Memorial Prize for international arbitration. He serves on the Academic Advisory Councils of Politeia and the Institute of Economic Affairs and is an Academic Adviser for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.

Expertise In: International Investment Law, International Arbitration

Languages: English