Steve Peers graduated from McMaster University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1988.
[1] He also taught at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice, Italy in April 2016.
He is the co-author of The EU Citizenship Directive: A Commentary, and the co-editor of several books about European Union law.
[1] Peers has written commentaries for the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies;[4] New Europeans, a pro-European Union organization;[5] and The UK in a Changing Europe, a think tank funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and based at King's College London.
[7] In October 2016, he argued that banning foreign-born academics like Sara Hagemann from serving as advisors to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Brexit would "come across as hostile, narrow and xenophobic.