Rubini Luca

Dr Luca Rubini is Reader (Associate Professor) in international economic law and Deputy Director of the Institute of European Law at Birmingham Law School. He served as référendaire for Advocate General Jacobs at the European Court of Justice, and has held various visiting positions at the European University Institute, the Institute of International Economic Law (Georgetown), the World Trade Institute, the Centre of European Law (King’s College London), Bocconi University and ASERI (Catholic University, Milan). Dr Rubini has law degrees from the Catholic University, Milan (JD) and King’s College London (MA, PhD).


His main research interest lies in subsidy law and policy and more generally in the governance of State intervention in the economy. In this regard, he published The Definition of Subsidy and State Aid – WTO Law and EC Law in Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2009) and is currently working on a project on the governance of climate change subsidies in the WTO that will be published by Cambridge University Press. A roadmap of this research has appeared in ‘Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More. Subsidies for Renewable Energy, the SCM Agreement, Policy Space and Law Reform’ (2012) Journal of International Economic Law, and ‘Who’ll stop the rain? Allocating Emissions Allowances for Free: Environmental Policy, Economics and WTO Subsidy Law’ (2012) Transnational Environmental Law (with Ingrid Jegou).


Dr Rubini also has an interest in EU law and competition law, especially state aid control and the relationship between competition laws, economics and innovation. He has edited Microsoft on Trial: Legal and Economic Analysis of a Transatlantic Antitrust Case (Edward Elgar, 2010) and co-edited (with Martin Trybus) The Treaty of Lisbon and the Future of the European Union (Edward Elgar, 2012).