Richard Collins

Professor David Collins teaches and researches international economic law specializing in the law of the World Trade Organization and international investment law. He heads City Law School’s Digital Trade Research Group and is admitted as a Solicitor of England & Wales and is 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 law faculties around the world including Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley, the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University, 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 is a former winner of the LCIA's Gillis Wetter Memorial Prize.

In 2018 the Government of Canada nominated David to the roster of panellists for NAFTA (now USMCA)'s trade remedies disputes. More recently, he was appointed to the panel of arbitrators for EU free trade agreements by the European Commission. He has given evidence to the International Trade Select Committee of the UK parliament on several occasions and serves on the Academic Advisory Councils of Politeia and the Institute of Economic Affairs. In 2022 the UK government's Trade Remedies Authority appointed David as an Independent Member of their Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.