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• New Publication from EUCE Faculty
  Louise Trubek, Clinical Professor of Law, edited a special Regulation and Governance volume on health care regulation based on a project organized in Wisconsin and co-sponsored by the EUCE.
  
  The special issue illustrates the quest for more effective healthcare regulations, paying special attention to the issues faced by regulatory institutions and methods developed to address these challenges. It also showcases a variety of health care innovations that will be valuable for regulation and health care scholars, policy makers and administrators, as well as health care professionals.
  
  "As practices with transnational reach evolve rapidly all over the world, people have come to recognize that it is crucial to have new tools of regulation and governance when it comes to the global improvement of health care," says Louise Trubek. Articles published in this issue focus on four key themes - regulatory pluralism, participation, accountability, and capacity. The authors tell cautionary stories which describe the need to reform regulation while also demonstrating the complexity of the search, proposing 'new rules' rather than the elimination of regulation."With dramatic health care developments occurring globally, it is essential for policies and regulations to keep up with rapid changes and trends. Governance of health care plays a vital role in stimulating innovation and ensuring that quality of care is not compromised", says Trubek. For the press release from the publisher Wiley-Blackwell including articles featured in this special issue, please click here.
  
• EUCE Director Advises the European Union
  At the invitation of the rotating German Presidency of the European Union, The European Union Center of Excellence and WAGE Director Jonathan Zeitlin presented a paper on "Strengthening the Social Dimension of the Lisbon Strategy" to a meeting of the EU Social Protection Committee (a body of high-level national and EU officials responsible for European social policy coordination) in Erfurt, Germany, on May 23. He then went on to present a paper on "A Decade of Innovation in EU Governance: The European Employment Strategy, the Open Method of Coordination, and the Lisbon Strategy" to an Expert Seminar on "European Social and Employment Policy Coordination" in Lisbon on May 25, organized by the upcoming Portuguese Presidency (now in office since July 1). This paper was circulated as an annex to the Presidency paper to a meeting of the Employment, Social Affairs, Health, and Consumer Protection (EPSCO) Council of Ministers in Guimaraes, Portugal, on July 5-7, and will be presented to a Presidency conference on "Ten Years of the European Employment Strategy" in Lisbon on October 8-9.

Click here for the workshop website featuring streaming video of presentations and links to previous years' workshops.

Coming in Summer 2008

EUCE Director Jonathan Zeitlin will be teaching at the Carlo Alberto Summer School on Governance (7-11 July, Turin).
For the summer school programme, please click here.

For recent publications by EUCE affiliated faculty, click here.