David V. Snyder

David V. Snyder is a professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law and is the director of its Business Law Program. After earning his undergraduate degree from Yale, Professor Snyder returned home to New Orleans and graduated from Tulane Law School. After a clerkship on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Professor Snyder practiced law with Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) in Washington, D.C. Before joining the faculty at American University, he was a professor of law at Tulane, Indiana (Bloomington), and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He has been a visiting professor at the law schools of the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), the University of Paris X (Nanterre La Défense), Boston University, and the College of William and Mary, and has also taught summer courses at the University of Mainz (Germany). In 2014 Professor Snyder was awarded a MacCormick Fellowship during which he delivered the annual Wilson Memorial Lecture at the University of Edinburgh.

Professor Snyder’s teaching and research interests are primarily in contracts and commercial law, including their international and comparative aspects. He was chair of the Section on Contracts of the Association of American Law Schools and chaired the Washington steering committee for the XVIIIth International Congress of Comparative Law. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and is a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He has served on the board of directors of the Washington Foreign Law Society and the board of editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law.