Dr. Luca Rubini is a lecturer in law at Birmingham Law School where he teaches WTO law, EU law and EC competition law at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Previously, he was lecturer at the University of Leicester (2005-2007) and legal secretary to Advocate General Francis Jacobs at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (2002-2003). He has been Visiting Researcher to the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law there (Fall 2007). He is a visiting professor at ASERI, the Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations, Milan, and Visiting Fellow to the Centre of European Law, King’s College London. Dr. Rubini has law degrees from the Catholic University in Milan (JD) and King's College London (MA and PhD) and is admitted to the Bar in Italy and to the Law Society of England and Wales as solicitor (non-practising).

His most recent publications include the books The Definition of Subsidy and State Aid – WTO Law and EC Law in Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Microsoft on Trial: Legal and Economic Analysis of a Transatlantic Antitrust Case (edited, Cheltengam, Elgar, 2009), and the policy paper co-authored with Gary Hufbauer and Thomas Moll, Investment Subsidies for Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions: Trends and Policy Implications (New York: United States Council for International Business Foundation, 2008).

His current research interests include the international control of public subsidies; energy, trade and climate change linkages, with a special focus on the trade regulation of measures to fight climate change; the connection between human rights protection and development; the interface between competition and IP law; and parallels between EC and WTO law.

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