Dan Rohde (he/him) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law.
His research focuses on the law of money, banking and central banking, with an emphasis on the history and constitution of the Bank of Canada. He also studies and has written on banking in the colonial period, central bank independence, corporate theory and legal historiography. His future research plans include looking at contemporary monetary proposals, such as central bank digital currencies and virtual-currency regulation, studying the history of the term ‘bank’ in Canadian law, and finishing his legal history of the Bank of Canada.
Prior to entering academia, Dan clerked at the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and practiced litigation at a union-side labour-law firm as well as a legal clinic that specializes in cases with a systemic impact on those living in poverty.
At Windsor Law, Dan will be teaching Contracts, Business Associations and his own course on the legal history of Canadian money. Most of his publications can be found on his SSRN page.