Bernard Schneider

Global Associate Professor of Law
Notre Dame London Law Programme
Home Affiliation: Reader (senior Associate Professor) in International and Comparative Tax Law, Queen Mary University of London

Bernard Schneider is Reader (senior Associate Professor) in International and Comparative Tax Law and Academic Director of the Institute of Tax Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, the graduate law school of Queen Mary University of London. He teaches international and comparative, U.S. and Chinese taxation, with a particular focus on the taxation of individuals, taxation in developing countries and the international relations aspects of international taxation.

Dr Schneider’s main research interests are the taxation of individuals, taxation in emerging and developing countries, international taxation as international relations and tax administration and procedure. Among his many related activities, he is a Participant in the United Nations Tax Committee’s Subcommittee on Tax Administration and Artificial Intelligence and a Technical Assistance Advisor for the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund. He is also a member of the branch committee of the U.K. Branch of the International Fiscal Association and of the U.K. Chartered Institute of Taxation's ADIT Examination Subcommittee, and he acts as a peer reviewer and external examiner.

Dr Schneider graduated from the New York University School of Law with a J.D. and an LL.M. in Taxation, and he has an M.I.A. and a Certificate in Chinese Studies from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. 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. dissertation at Queen Mary on the development of the Chinese income tax system.