Bernard Schneider

Global Associate of Law
Notre Dame London Law Programme

Home Affiliation: Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Tax Law, Queen Mary University of London

Bernard Schneider is senior lecturer (associate professor) in International Tax Law, academic director of the Institute of Tax Law and director of the LL.M. in International Tax Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. He teaches international and comparative, U.S. and Chinese taxation.

Schneider graduated from the New York University School of Law with a J.D. and an LL.M. in taxation, and he holds an M.I.A. from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a Certificate in Chinese Studies from Columbia University's East Asian Institute.  He studied Chinese at the Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei and at Capital Normal University in Beijing. He wrote his Ph.D. on the Chinese income tax system at Queen Mary.

Schneider's main research interests are in the areas of international and comparative tax law, tax administration, taxation in emerging and developing countries, the U.S. and Chinese tax systems and the taxation of individuals.

Prior to entering academia, Schneider practiced in New York, China and the United Kingdom, primarily in the areas of international and U.S. taxation.