Dr Luca Rubini

Luca Rubini is a Associate Professor in International Law at the Department of International, Legal, Political and Historical Studies of the University of Milan, Italy, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham Law School. Previously, he held positions at the Law Schools of the University of Birmingham (where he was a Reader in International Economic Law) and Leicester. He is a visiting professor at the World Trade Institute (Switzerland) and the Freie Universität Berlin and a visiting fellow at the Centre of European Law of King’s College London. 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 State intervention in the market 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 (more details on his publications can be found here). 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).