David Trubek
Professor of Law Emeritus
E-mail: dmtrubek@wisc.edu
Telephone: 262-5608
Office: Room 6106, Law School
Education:
LL.B., Yale Law School
Teaching Areas:
Administrative Law
Comparative Law
International Law: European Union
Law & Development
Law & Society
Biography
David M. Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served as Dean of International Studies from 1990 to 2001, and then served as the Director of WAGE from 2001 to 2004.
A graduate of UW-Madison and Yale Law School, Dean Trubek joined the UW Law School faculty in 1973. He has taught at Yale and Harvard Law Schools and the Catholic University Law School in Rio de Janeiro. He served as Associate Dean for Research of the UW Law School and Director of the UW's Institute for Legal Studies from 1985-90.
In 2001, the French government awarded Trubek the honor of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques, in recognition of "devotion and accomplishment in teaching, scholarship and research." In 2002, he was awarded the Harry Kalven Prize by the Law and Society Association, in recognition of "a body of empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society."
As Dean of International Studies at the UW-Madison, Trubek coordinated area and international studies and managed the UW International Institute. He directed the Office of International Studies and Programs, oversaw the UW's relations with foreign universities, managed study abroad programs, and was responsible for campus-wide strategic planning in international education. He was principal investigator of the Stanford-Wisconsin-Minnesota MacArthur Consortium in International Peace and Cooperation.
Dean Trubek has written extensively on international and comparative law as well as other topics in legal studies. He has published articles and books on the role of law in development, human rights, European integration, and the impact of globalization on legal systems and social protection schemes. He has also made contributions in critical legal theory, the sociology of law, the sociology of the legal profession, and civil procedure. A cofounder of the Conference on Critical Legal Studies, Trubek has lectured at universities in the US and abroad and his work has been translated into French, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish. 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 has published numerous articles on public interest law, civil litigation, and civil procedure, and co-edited Lawyer's Ideal and Lawyer's Practices: Transformation in the American Legal Profession (1992), which examines recent theoretical work of American and German social and legal scholars. More recently, he co-authored a monograph, Global Restructuring and the Law: Studies of the Internationalization of Legal Fields and the Creation of Transnational Arenas (1994). He is currently working on a study of social justice after globalization, focusing on the social dimensions of the European Union and international labor standards. In July 1996 he was a principal speaker at the 8th International Conference on Socio-Economics in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1997 he spoke in Paris for the Society for Research on European Law at the Maison des Sciences de l?Homme, and in Antwerp as part of the Plenary Talk on "Sociology of Law and Legal Policy" at the International Meeting of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law.
Before teaching, Trubek clerked for Judge Charles E. Clark on the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals and worked as an attorney for the U.S. State Department and as a legal advisor at the Agency for International Development (AID) Mission in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While at Yale, he ran a research program on the role of the law in Third World Development. He has since been a consultant for the State Department to develop legal training in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau in Africa, for the Ford Foundation to develop legal services for the poor in Brazil, and for AID on prospects for the rule of law in Russia. He has served on the boards of the Inter-American Legal Services Association, the Law and Society Association, and the Consortium on Globalization, Law and Social Sciences (CONGLASS). Trubek is active in the American Society of International Law and was co-chair of the 1996 conference on New Approaches to International Law co-sponsored by the UW and the Harvard Law School.
For more information, curriculum vitae and a complete list of puplications, please visit David Trubek's Personal Website.
