David  

COLLINS

Professor David Collins is a Professor of International Economic Law at the City Law School, City St George’s, University of London. He 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, he is a Solicitor of England & Wales and is a member of the Ontario and New York bars. He has authored numerous articles and books including Introduction to International Investment Law (Cambridge University Press, 2^nd ed, 2023), Foundations of International Economic Law (2^nd ed. Elgar, 2025) and Principles of World Trade Law (Routledge, 2025).

Professor Collins 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. He serves on the Academic Advisory Councils of Politeia and the Institute of Economic Affairs and is a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, a Senior Fellow of the Macdonald Laurier Institute as well as an Academic Advisor for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.