David Schneiderman

Professor of Law and Political Science
University of Toronto

David Schneiderman is Professor of Law and Political Science (courtesy) at the University of Toronto where he teaches courses on Canadian and US constitutional law and on international investment law. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Freedom of Expression and the Charter (1991), 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). 

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Blog November 9, 2017

University Speech Codes and the Wounds of White Fragility

(Co-written with Anver Emon, Professor of Law, University of Toronto) Everyone can get hurt. We are complex beings, with multiple attachments, and so we naturally are offended by insults, degrading comments, and uncivil speech. If such wounds hurt, should they be the subject of penalty or public censure? For intractable disputes, it is naïve to think that speech codes can serve to dampen, or even resolve, conflict.
David Schneiderman
Academic Freedom
Blog May 9, 2017

Our Anxious Supreme Court

One gets the sense that the Supreme Court of Canada does not have a good feel for free speech questions. It took some time, for instance, for a majority of the Court to acknowledge that legal constraints might ‘chill’ free speech. The Court confidently proclaimed, on more than one occasion, that civil and criminal legal prohibitions should not be expected to deter speakers.
David Schneiderman
Academic Freedom, Censorship, Freedom of Expression & Its Limits