David Schneiderman

University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

Professor of Law and Political Science

78 Queen's Park

Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5

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1.

Legitimacy and Reflexivity in International Investment Arbitration: A New Self-Restraint?

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2011
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 May 2011 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2011
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Reflexivity, international investment law, systems theory, Legitimacy

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The Coloniality of Investment Law

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Jun 2019
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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investment law, coloniality, democracy, development

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Judicial Politics and International Investment Arbitration: Seeking an Explanation for Conflicting Outcomes

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, Vol. 30, No. 2, Spring 2010
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 29 Nov 2011
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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international law, investment arbitration, judicial politics

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International Economic Law's Wreckage: Depoliticization, Inequality, Precarity

Forthcoming in Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory - Edited by Emilios Christodoulidis, Ruth Dukes, Marco Goldoni - Edward Elgar
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2018
Nicolás M. Perrone and David Schneiderman
Universidad Andrés Bello and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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International Economic Law, Foreign Investment, International Trade, Arbitration, Critical Legal Studies

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Phase 2 of the UNCITRAL ISDS Review: Why ‘Other Matters’ Really Matter

Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 06 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2019
Jane Kelsey, David Schneiderman and Gus Van Harten
University of Auckland - Faculty of Law, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Investor-state dispute settlement, UNCITRAL Working Group III, reform, other matters

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The Political Economy of Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaty Policy

Forthcoming in Chinese Journal of Comparative Law
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 May 2017
Tyler Cohen and David Schneiderman
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Investment treaties, international law, China, political economy

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Investing in Democracy: Political Process and International Investment Law

University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 60, No. 4, p. 909, Fall 2010
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Dec 2011
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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investment law, democracy, political process theory, representation reinforcement review, comparative law, business political activity

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A New Global Constitutional Order?

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, pp. 189-207, Rosalind Dixon, Tom Ginsburg, eds., Edward Elgar, 2011
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Dec 2011
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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comparative constitutional, international investment law, national constitutions

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Unwritten Constitutional Principles in Canada: Genuine or Strategic?

Rosalind Dixon and Adrienne Stone (eds), The Invisible Constitution (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Sep 2018
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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constitutional principles, judicial review, strategic decision making, Canada

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Judging in Secular Times: Max Weber and the Rise of Proportionality

Supreme Court Law Review (2d)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 22 Aug 2013
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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'Introduction' to Resisting Economic Globalization: Critical Theory and International Investment Law

Resisting Economic Globalization: Critical Theory and International Investment Law (Palgrave Macmillan 2013)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Jul 2013
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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critical theory, international investment law, transnational law, globalization

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On Suffering and Societal Constitutionalism: At the Border of International Investment Arbitration and Human Rights

in Boundaries of State, Boundaries of Rights Human Rights, Private Actors, and Positive Obligations, edited by Tsvi Kahana and Anat Scolnicov (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 04 Jan 2016
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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human rights, international investment law, systems theory

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Global Constitutionalism and International Economic Law: The Case of International Investment Law

2016 European Yearbook of International Economic Law 23-43
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 23 Feb 2017
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Global Constitutionalism and Its Legitimacy Problems: Human Rights, Proportionality, and International Investment Law

Journal of Law & Ethics of Human Rights, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Promoting Equality, Black Economic Empowerment, and the Future of Investment Rules

South African Journal on Human Rights, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Mar 2010
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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international investment law, equality promotion

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Multiculturalism in Canadian Constitutional Culture: Domesticating Difference

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 06 Jan 2016
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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multiculturalism, constitutional culture, Canadian constitutional history

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The Global Regime of Investor Rights: Return to the Standards of Civilised Justice?

Transnational Legal Theory 2014 (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Feb 2014
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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civilisation, general principles, international investment law, comparative public law

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International Investment Law As Formally Rational Law: A Weberian Analysis

Moshe Hirsch and Andrew Lang (eds) Research Handbook on The Sociology of International Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2017
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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sociology of law, investment law, weber, formal law

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The Paranoid Style of Investment Lawyers and Arbitrators: Investment Law Norm Entrepreneurs and their Critics

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Oct 2015
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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investment arbitration, international law, legitimacy

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Power and Production in Global Legal Pluralism: An International Political Economy Approach

Socio-Legal Approaches to International Economic Law: Text, Context, Subtext, Amanda Perry-Kessaris, ed., 2013
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Aug 2013
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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global legal pluralism, international political economy, investment law

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Canadian Constitutional Culture: A Genealogical Account

Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution (ed. by Nathalie Des Rosiers, Patrick Macklem,and Peter Oliver, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 Mar 2017
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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pluralism, constitutional culture, empire, assimilation, accommodation, genealogy

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‘Writing the Rules of the Global Economy’: How America Defines the Contours of International Investment Law

London Review of International Law (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Sep 2018
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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investment law; universality; Bourdieu

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Investment Arbitration As Constitutional Law: Constitutional Analogies, Linkages, and Absences

Thomas Schultz and Frederico Ortino (eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2019
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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investment arbitration, constitutional law, separation of powers, constituent power

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Dividing Power in the First and Second British Empires: Revisiting Durham's Imperial Constitution

Forthcoming in Review of Constitutional Studies
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 10 Feb 2016
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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imperial constitutional history, comparative constitutional law, Canada, United States

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Common Sense and the Charter

Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 45, p. 3, 2009
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Dec 2011
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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constitutional law, charter of rights, judicial review, proportionality

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Revisiting the Depoliticization of Investment Disputes

Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy, 2010-11 (Oxford University Press), pp. 693-714, ISBN: 9780199812356
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 Mar 2019
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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International Investment Law's Unending Legitimation Project

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Nov 2017
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Against Constitutional Excess: Tocquevillian Reflections on International Investment Law

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Nov 2017
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Tocqueville, international investment law, constitutional law, democratic theory

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Universality vs. Particularity: Litigating Middle Class Values under Section 15

Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 33, pp. 367-387, 2006
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 17 Jul 2008
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Constitutional Interpretation in an Age of Anxiety: A Reconsideration of the Local Prohibition Case

McGill Law Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2, 1996
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 May 2008
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Investor Rights and the Judicial Denial of the Neoliberal Constitutionalism

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Oct 2015
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Haldane Unrevealed

McGill Law Journal, Vol. 57, No. 3, 2012
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 28 Nov 2011
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Canadian constitutional history, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Haldane

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‘Introduction’ to Red, White, and Kind of Blue? The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture

Red, White, and Kind of Blue? The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2015)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Oct 2015
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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constitutional law, constitutional culture, constitutional change, Americanization

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Disabling Constitutional Capacity: Global Economic Law and Democratic Decline

Mark Graber, Sandy Levinson and Mark Tushnet (eds.) Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Oct 2018
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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globalization, comparative constitutional law, voter turnout, international investment law

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Economic Citizenship and Deliberative Democracy: An Inquiry into Constitutional Limitations on Economic Regulation

Queen's Law Journal, Vol. 21, 1995
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2010
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canada, Constitution, constitutional amendments, economic rights

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Canadian Judicial Nomination Processes and the Press: ‘Interesting, in a Sleepy Sort of Way’

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2014
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Nov 2014
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Courts, judicial nominations, hearings, media, Canada, Tribunales, Cortes, nombramientos judiciales, audiencias; medios de comunicación

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Edmund Burke, John Whyte, and Themes in Canadian Constitutional Culture

Queen's Law Journal, Vol. 31, 2006
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2010
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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John Whyte, Edmund Burke, constitutionalism, liberalism, Canada, United States

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Constitutional Property Rights and Elision of the Transnational: Foucauldian Misgivings

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Jan 2015
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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global property rights, neoliberalism, investment law, Foucault, governmentality

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Reviving the ‘Lost Art’ of Exit: Thinking About Substitutes for International Investment Law

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 21 May 2019
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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investment law, subsitutes, exit, Hirschman

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Exchanging Constitutions: Constitutional Bricolage in Canada

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 40, No's 3&4, pp. 401-424, 2002
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2010
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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constitutional law, economic globalization, US constitutional law, Canadian constitutional law, buyer-seller model

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Developments in Constitutional Law: The 1993-94 Term

Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 6, pp. 67-126, 1995
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Jul 2008
David Schneiderman, Joel Bakan, Bruce Ryder and Margot E. Young
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Faculty of Law
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Listening to Investors (and Others): Audi Alteram Partem and the Future of International Investment Law

Armand de Mestral (ed.), Second Thoughts: Investor State Arbitration between Developed Democracies (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2017
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Investment Law, Deliberative Democracy, Aliens, Administrative Law

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Academic Freedom and the Federal Idea

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 25 Aug 2013
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Developments in Constitutional Law: The 1994-95 Term

Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 7, pp. 81-156, 1996
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Jul 2008
David Schneiderman, Hester Lessard, Bruce Ryder and Margot E. Young
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, University of Victoria - Faculty of Law, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Faculty of Law
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Dual(ling) Charters: The Harmonics of Rights in Canada and Quebec

Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, p. 235, 1992
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2010
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Quebec Charter, Meech Lake Accord, Canadian constitutional law

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The Judiciary in Trudeau's Constitutional Vision: Intellectual Trajectory and the Origins of the Charter

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 22 Aug 2013
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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North America Investment Law and Policy: 2017

Year Book of International Investment Law and Policy, (OUP, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 10 Oct 2018
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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International Investment Law, North American Free Trade Agreement, Year in Review

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Phase 2 de l’examen du mécanisme RDIE de la CNUDCI: Pourquoi «les autres questions» ont une véritable importance (Phase 2 of the UNCITRAL ISDS Review: Why ‘Other Matters’ Really Matter)

Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Mar 2019
Gus Van Harten, Jane Kelsey and David Schneiderman
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School, University of Auckland - Faculty of Law and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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investor-state dispute settlement, UNCITRAL Working Group III, reform, other matters

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Reconstructing Rights in the Spirit of a New Partnership

Policy Options, pp. 21-24, March 1998
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 17 Jul 2008
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Transnational Legality and the Immobilization of Local Agency

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 2, pp. 387-408, 2006
Posted: 18 Oct 2010
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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Constitution or Model Treaty? Struggling Over the Interpretive Authority of Nafta

THE MIGRATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL IDEAS, Sujit Choudhry, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006
Posted: 16 Jul 2009
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), constitutionalism, internationalism, Canadian constitutional law

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Property Rights and Regulatory Innovation: Comparing Constitutional Cultures

International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 371-391, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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Canada: Supreme Court Addresses Gay-Positive Readers in Public Schools

International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 77-85, 2005
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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Political Association and the Anti-Terrorism Bill

Posted: 09 Mar 2002
David Schneiderman and Brenda Cossman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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Terrorism and the Risk Society

Posted: 13 Feb 2002
David Schneiderman
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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