[1] He was educated at Harvard College and received his JD from the University of Michigan, where he served as editor-in-chief of the law review.
[2] Schneider subsequently clerked for Judge Carl McGowan of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; he served in the same capacity for Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court.
[3] Schneider authored several books, including The Censor's Hand: The Misregulation of Human-Subject Research.
Schneider argued that institutional review boards are unnecessary and harmful, restricting useful and innocuous research while being likely to permit truly dangerous studies.
He stated in a 2018 lecture that IRBs are "deeply unethical system[s] of regulation" because they fail to reach consistent decisions and prohibit many experiments which have the potential to benefit patient health.