Luca Rubini

Luca Rubini is Associate Professor in International Law at the University of Milan, Italy, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Previously he held positions at the Law Schools of the University of Turin, University of Birmingham (where he was Reader in International Economic Law) and Leicester. He is visiting professor to the World Trade Institute (Switzerland) and the Freie Universität Berlin and visiting fellow to the Centre of European Law of King’s College London. Sometime in the past he served as legal secretary in the cabinet of Advocate General Jacobs at the European Court of Justice. Luca has a special interest in the governance and regulation of the State intervention in the market, in particular subsidies, at both the international and European levels. He has published extensively on these (and other) topics. His 2010 monograph The Definition of Subsidy and State Aid: WTO law and EC law in comparative perspective (OUP) was recently translated into Chinese. Luca regularly advises IOs, governments, NGOs and private parties on trade and other legal matters. He is included in the European Commission’s pool of individuals eligible for appointment as both arbitrators for trade and sustainable development (TSD) experts in bilateral disputes under trade agreements with third countries. Luca has law degrees from the Catholic University in Milan (“laurea in giurisprudenza”) and King’s College London (MA in Advanced European Legal Studies; PhD).