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David M. Trubek LLB, Yale (1961), a Founding Co-Director of the European Union Center (2001-2004), is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law. He served in the Agency for International Development and was Legal Advisor to the AID Mission to Brazil. He joined the UW Law School faculty in 1973. From 1989-2001 he served as the UW’s Dean of International Studies and Director of the International Institute. Following that he served as Director of the UW-Madison's Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (2002-04).

He has published articles and books on the role of law in development, the social role of the legal profession, human rights, European integration, the impact of globalization on legal systems and social protection, social theory, and critical legal studies. Trubek has taught at the Yale and Harvard Law Schools and lectured at universities in the US and abroad. He is co-author of a book on US federalism and European integration, Consumer Law, Common Markets, and Federalism (1987), which stemmed from an association with the European University Institute (Florence) and an extended residency as a visiting scholar at the Commission of the European Community in Brussels. He co-edited Critical Legal Thought: An American-German Debate (with Joerges,1989), Lawyers’ Ideals and Lawyers’ Practices (with Nelson and Solomon, 1992 ), and Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments (with Jonathan Zeitlin, 2003). He has been a visiting scholar at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, and the London School of Economics. Professor Trubek was recently awarded the Kalven Prize for scholarship by the Law and Society Association and was appointed Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Ministry of Education. government. His work has been translated into French, Chinese, Japanese, German, Portuguese and Spanish. Currently he is working on new approaches to governance in the context of globalization and European integration, the changing nature of work and welfare, the impact of international labor standards, law and development, and new directions in socio-legal theory. During 2002-03 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University and the Harvard Law School Center for European Law Research.

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