Education
University of Wisconsin 1953-57 B.A.; Yale Law School 1958-61 LL.B.

Note and Comment Editor, Yale Law Journal; Order of the Coif

Languages
Portuguese (fluent); French, Spanish

Professional Employment

• 1964-66, Legal Advisor and Chief, Office of Housing and Urban Development - U.S.A.I.D Mission to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
• 1962-64, Attorney-Advisor, U.S. Department of State, Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.
• 1961-62, Law Clerk, Judge Charles E. Clark, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit

University Appointments

• 2004-present, Senior Fellow, Center for World Affairs & the Global Economy
• 2001-04, Director, Center for World Affairs & the Global Economy
• 1998-04, Co-Director, European Union Center
• 1995-01, Director, International Institute
• 1990-01, Dean of International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1986-87, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
• 1985-90, Director, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin Law School
• 1984-present, Voss-Bascom Professor of Law
• 1977-84 Associate Dean for Research, UW Law School
• 1973-present, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin
• 1966-73, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Major Teaching Interests

Current: International Law; Social Theory and Law; European Social Policy, Transnational Regulation and Global Governance

Prior: Civil Procedure; The Legal Profession, Law and Development

Current and Recent Professional Activities

• Co-Chair, Program Committee for the Joint International Sociolegal Studies Meeting (Berlin 2007)
• Senior Fellow, Law and Society Program, University of California-Santa Barbara (2002-present)
• Editorial Advisory Board, Law and Social Inquiry (1998-present)
• Member, Academic Council, European Law Research Center, Harvard University (1991-present)
• Chair, International Activities Committee, Law and Society Association (2003-present)
• Co-Coordinator, International Institute, Research Circle on Governance (2003-present)
• Co-Coordinator, International Institute, Labor and the Global Economy Research Circle (1997-04)
• Board of Directors, Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association (1997-2003)

Major Grants and Research Projects (Does not include grants to International Institute received as director).

• Co-director, European Union Center (grant from the European Commission) (1998-present)
• Principal Investigator, Ford Foundation, UW Crossing Borders project (1998-2002)
• Principal Investigator for UW-Madison, Stanford/Minnesota/Wisconsin/MacArthur Foundation Consortium on International Peace and Cooperation (1992-2002)
• Principal Investigator and Project Director, Civil Litigation Research Project, U.S. Department of Justice, (Contract awarded to University of Wisconsin) (1980-83)
• European University Institute, Florence, Italy (grant for research on comparative aspects of federalism) (1980-82)
• Director, Yale Program in Law and Modernization, (grant to Yale Law School from Agency for International Development) (1967-73)

Major Honors

• Harry Kalven Prize, Law and Society Association (2002)
• Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques, French Ministry of Education (2001)

Other Professional Activities

• 2003, Fulbright Senior Scholar, Riga Graduate School of Law, Riga, Latvia
• 2002, Visiting Professor, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati Spain
• 2001-01, Co-chair, Law and Society Association Labor Rights Research Network
• 1998-00, Editorial Advisory Board, Law and Society Review
• 1998, Planning Committee, Annual American Society of International Law Meeting
• 1992-95, Coordinator, Global Studies Program Research Circle on Legal Change
• 1992-94, Consortium on Law, Globalization and Social Science (CONGLASS) (organized Consortium, served on Steering Committee, and Co-Chaired meeting in Onati, Spain, in 1994)
• 1991, Member, Joint Planning Commission, 1991 US-European Legal Sociology Congress
• 1989-90, Organizing Committee, Interuniversity Consortium on Poverty Law
• 1988-90, Steering Committee, A.E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change, UW-Madison
• 1988-91, Trustee and Member of Executive Committee, Law and Society Association
• 1987-93, Advisory Committee, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Law and Society Programme
• 1987-92, Affiliated Scholar, American Bar Foundation Program on Professionalism, Ethics and Economic Change
• 1987-88, Center for Public Resources, Council of Academic Advisors on ADR
• 1985-90, Director, Institute for Legal Studies, UW Law School
• 1980-87, Trustee, Inter-American Legal Services Association
• 1978-84, Director, U.W. Disputes Processing Research Program

Consultancies

• Sheffield University, Sheffield UK, Review of Law Department, (2004)
• U.S. Department of State, Social rights and legal education in Brazil (2002)
• Consultant to ARD/Checchi-USAID Rule of Law Project in Russia (1993-1994)
• State Bar of Wisconsin, Lawyers' fees and medical malpractice litigation (1984)
• U.S. Department of State, Human rights and legal development in Guinea- Bissau and Cape Verde (1982); Training for judges from Cape Verde (1983)
• Inter-American Foundation, Legal services in Latin America (1982)
• Wisconsin Legislative Council, Reform of landlord tenant law (1975)
• Taconic Foundation, Exclusionary land use controls (1975)
• United States Civil Rights Commission, Exclusionary land use controls (1971)
• Ford Foundation, Reorganization of Brazilian legal education (1967); Research on urban problems in Brazil (1967); Alternative techniques of conflict resolution (1976); Public interest law and human rights in Latin America (1977-1980)
• U.S. Department of State, Reorganization of U.S. Embassy in Rio (1967)

Visiting Scholar in Residence

• Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies and Law School, Harvard University (2002-2003)
• Law Department, London School of Economics (2002)
• Robert Schuman Center, European University Institute, Florence, Italy (2000; 2001)
• Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France (1998)
• University of Texas Law School (1985)
• Fundaçno Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil (1985)
• Cardozo Law School and New School for Social Research, New York (1984-85)
• European University Institute, Florence, Italy (1982)
• Commission of the European Community (1980)

Publications

• Books

• David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos, eds, The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal Cambridge University Press (2006)
• Max Weber at the Millennium: Economy and Society for the 21st Century (co-editor with Charles Camic and Phil Gorski) Stanford University Press (2005)
• Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments (co-editor with Jonathan Zeitlin) Oxford University Press (2003)
• Lawyers' Ideals and Lawyers' Practices (co-editor with Robert Nelson and Raymond Solomon) Cornell University Press (1992)
• Critical Legal Thought: A German-American Debate (co-editor with Christian Joerges) Baden-Baden: Nomos (1989)
• Consumer Law, Common Markets and Federalism (with Thierry Bourgognie) Berlin and New York; de Gruyter (1987)
• O Mercado de Capitais e os Incentivos Fiscais (with Sa and Gouvea Viera) (TN-APEC, Rio de Janeiro, 1971)

• Monographs, Major Reports, Edited Symposia

• Co-Editor, "Special Issue on Law and New Approaches to Governance in Europe," European Law Journal, Volume 8, Issue 1 March 2002
• Final Report of the Civil Litigation Research Project (3 vols.) (submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice, March 1983) (co-author)
• Editor, "Special Issue on Civil Litigation and Dispute Processing," 15 Law & Society Review 389-920 (1980-81)
• Critical Legal Thought: A German-American Debate (co-editor with Christian Joerges) Baden-Baden: Nomos (1989)
• Law, Planning and the Development of the Brazilian Capital Market (N.Y.U. Institute of Finance Bulletin Nos. 71-72, 1971

• Articles and Chapters of Books

• "The Creative Role of the Judge: Restraint and Freedom in the Common Law Tradition," 71 Yale Law Journal 255-76 (1961) (with Charles E. Clark)
• "Brazil: All Power to the Generals, " 49 Foreign Affairs 464-79 (1971) (with Henry J. Steiner)
• "Max Weber on Law and the Rise of Capitalism," 1972 Wisconsin Law Review 720-53*
• "Toward a Social Theory of Law: An Essay on the Study of Law and Development," 82 Yale Law Journal 1-50 (1972)
• "Measuring the Invisible Wall: Land Use Controls and the Residential Patterns of the Poor," 82 Yale Law Journal 483-508 (1972) (with Benjamin Cohen and Eric Branfman)
• "When is an Omelet, What is an Egg? Reflections on Human Rights and Development in Latin American," (1973) Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 483-508
• "Scholars in Self-Estrangement: Reflections on the Crisis in Law and Development Studies in the United States," (1974) Wisconsin Law Review 1062-1102 (with Marc Galanter)
• "Law and the Politics of Justice: Rethinking the Open Suburbs Movement," in Exclusionary Zoning Litigation (1977)
  
• "Complexity and Contradiction in the Legal Order: Balbus and the Challenge of Critical Social Thought About Law," 11 Law & Society Review 529-69 (1977)
  
• "Allocating the Burden of Environmental Uncertainty: The NRC Interprets NEPA's Substantive Mandate," (1977) Wisconsin Law Review 747-76
  
• "Environmental Defense: Interest Group Advocacy in Complex Disputes," in Weisbrod, Handler and Komesar, Public Interest Law 151-217 (Univ. of Calif. Press, 1978)
  
• "Unequal Protection: Thoughts on Legal Services, Social Welfare and Income Distribution in Latin America," 13 Texas International Law Review 243-62 (1978)
  
• "Scholars in the Fun House: A Reply to Professor Seidman," 1 Research in Law and Sociology 31-40 (1978) (with Marc Galanter)
  
• "Public Advocacy: Administrative Government and the Representation of Diffuse Interests," in Cappelletti and Garth, eds., Emerging Issues & Perspectives in the "Access to Justice Movement" 447-94 (1979)
  
• "Market Discrimination Against the Poor and the Impact of Consumer Disclosure Laws: The Used Car Industry," 13 Law & Society Review 695-720 (1979) (with Kenneth McNeil, John R. Nevin and Richard E. Miller)
  
• "Legal Services and the Administrative State: From Public Interest Law to Public Advocacy," (with Louise G. Trubek and Jonathan Becker) in E. Blankenburg, ed., Innovations in the Legal Services 131-160 (1980)
  
• "Civic Justice Through Civil Justice: A New Approach to Public Interest Advocacy in the United States," (with Louise G. Trubek) Access to Justice and the Welfare State. Mauro Cappelletti, ed., 119-44 (1981)
  
• "Comment on Francisco C. Weffort, 'A Cidadania dos Trabalhadores,'" in B. Lamounier et al., eds., Direito, Cidadania e Participacao (1981)
  
• "Studying Courts in Context," 15 Law & Society Review 485-504 (1981)
  
• "Afterword: The Construction and Denconstruction of a Disputes-Focused Approach," 15 Law & Society Review 727-47 (1981)
  
• "Gerichte in ihrem Kontext--Der Konflinktansatz in der Forschung zur Ziviljustiz," in Blankenburg, Gottwald and Strempel, eds., Alternativen in der Ziviljustiz 329-339 (Bundesanzeiger 1982)
  
• "Coordinating Consumer Law and Policy in the American Federal System," (with Louise G. Trubek and James E. Zorn) in Thierry Bourgoignie, ed., European Consumer Law 307-359 (1982)
  
• "The Costs of Ordinary Litigation," (co-author) 31 U.C.L.A. Law Review 72-127 (1983)
  
• "Where the Action Is: Critical Legal Studies and Empiricism," 36 Stanford Law Review 575-622 (1984)
  
• "A Strategy for Legal Studies: Getting Bok to Work," 33 Journal of Legal Education 586-593 (1983)
  
• "Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Third World: Human Rights Law and Human Needs Programs" in T. Meron, ed., International Protection of Human Rights 206-270 (Oxford University Press) (1984)
  
• "Courts and Litigation Investment: Why Do the Federal Courts Take More?" (co-author) 9 Justice System Journal 7-22 (1984)
  
• "Understanding the Costs of Litigation: The Case of the Hourly-Fee Lawyer" (co-author) 1984 American Bar Foundation Research Journal 559-604 (1984)
  
• "The Impact of Fee Arrangement on Lawyer Effort," (co-author) 19 Law and Society Review 251-278 (1985)
  
• "The Place of Law and Social Science in the Structure of Legal Education," 35 Journal of Legal Education 483-488 (1985)
  
• "Les periods dans L'histoire recente de la theorie de l'acces a la justice: Le sujet de droit a la quete de son autonomie," 29 Annales de Vaucresson 45-6 (1988)
• "Critical Empiricism in American Legal Studies: Paradox, Program or Pandora's Box?" 14-1 Law and Social Inquiry 3-52 (1989)
  
• "The Handmaiden's Revenge: On Reading and Using the Newer Sociology of Civil Procedure," 51 Law & Contemporary Problems 111-134 (1989)
  
• "Programmatic Thought and the Critique of the Social Disciplines" in M. Perry (ed.), Critique and Construction (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press 1990)
  
• "Back to the Future: The Short and Happy Life of the Law and Society Movement," 18 Florida State University Law Review 1-55 (1990)
  
• “From ‘Scientism Without Determinism’ to ‘Interpretation Without Politics’: A Reply to Sarat, Harrington and Yngvesson” (co-author) 15-1 Law and Social Inquiry 171- 180 (1990)
  
• “Critical Moments in Access to Justice Theory: The Quest for the Empowered Self” in Allan C. Hutchinson (ed.), Access to Justice 107-128 (1990)
  
• "Protectionism and Development: Time for A New Dialogue?", Vol. 25, No. 2, Journal of International Law and Politics 345-366 (1993)
  
• "Global Restructuring and the Law: Studies of the Internationalization of Legal Fields and the Creation of Transnational Arenas," (co-author) Vol. 44, No. 2, Case Western Reserve Law Review 407-498 (1994)
  
• “Law and Development: Then and Now”, Proceedings of the 90th Meeting of the American Society of International Law, 90 ASIL Proc. (1996)
  
• “The Future of International Studies” in Proud Traditions and Future Challenges-The University of Wisconsin-Madison Celebrates 150 Years (Office of University Publications - University of Wisconsin 1999)
  
• “Transnationalism in the Regulation of Labor Relations: International Regimes and Transnational Advocacy Networks” (with Jim Mosher and Jeffrey S. Rothstein) Law and Social Inquiry (1999)
  
• “Law and Development” in N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (editors) 2001 International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Pergamon, Oxford. p. 8443
  
• “The Transatlantic Labor Dialogue: Minimal Action in a Weak Structure” in M. Pollack and G. Shaffer, eds. Transatlantic Governance in a Global Economy (Rowman & Littlefield 2001)
  
• “Mind the Gap: Law and New Approaches to Governance in Europe (with Joanne Scott) 8 European Law Journal 1 (2002)
  
• "Knowledge, Law and Democracy. A Comment on Christian Joerges' 'The Law in the Process of Constitutionalizing Europe' " in E. Eriksen, J. Fossum, A. Menéndez, eds., Constitution Making and Democratic Legitimacy ( Arena 2002)
  
• “New Governance, EU Social Policy, and the European Social Model” (with Jim Mosher) in J. Zeitlin and D. Trubek, eds, Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments (Oxford 2003)
  
• “EU Social Policy and the European Employment Strategy”, 41 Journal of Common Market Studies 63 (2003) (with Jim Mosher)
  
• "Cracking the 'Red, White, and Blue' Ceiling: Towards a New International Role for the Law and Society Association", Vol. 37, No. 2, Law & Society Review 205-303 (2003)
  
• “The Rule of Law in Development Assistance: Past, Present and Future”, in M. Bauerle et.al, eds, Haben wir wirklich Recht? (Nomos, 2004)
  
• “Hard and Soft Law in the Construction of Social Europe: The Open Method of Coordination” (with L. Trubek) European Law Journal (2005)
  
• "Hard and Soft Law in European Integration" (with P. Cottrell & M.Nance) in J. Scott & G. de Burca eds., New Governance and Constitutionalism (Hart 2005)
• "Trade Law, Labor, and Global Inequality" (with L. Compa), in P. Carrington & T. Jones eds. Law and Class in America (NYU Press, 2006)
• "The 'Rule of Law' in Development Assistance," in David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos, eds. The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal, Cambridge University Press (2006)

• Book Reviews and Review Essays

• Schwartz, Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil, in 19 American Jounral of Legal History 89-94 (1975)
• Council for Public Interest Law, Balancing the Scales of Justice, 1977 Wisconsin Law Review 303-315
• M. Weber, Max Weber, A Biography, in American Journal of Sociology, 84-4, 1005-1008
• Lindblom, Politics and Markets, in The Nation, (August 1978)
• Abel, ed., The Politics of Informal Justice and Auerbach, Justice Wiithout Law in 82 Michigan Law Review 824-835 (1984)
• Kronman, Max Weber, in 37 Stanford Law Review 919-936 (1985)
• "Max Weber's Tragic Modernism and the Study of Law in Society" 20 Law and Society Review 573-598 (1986)
• Roberto Unger, Politics in "Review Essay: Radical Theory and Programmatic Thought," 95 American Journal of Sociology 44 (1989)
• Cruz, Potobsky, Swepston, International Labor Organization: The International Standards System and Basic Human Rights and Compa, Diamond, Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade: Law and Policy Perspectives in 91 American Journal of International Law 398 (1994)
• Joseph Nye and John Donahue, eds. Governance in a Globalizing World 96 American Journal of International Law 748 (2003)
• "The Emergence of Transnational Labor Law" American Journal of International Law 100 (2006)
  

• Other

• "Will State Courts and Legislatures Eliminate Exclusionary Land Use Controls?" Statement, Hearing of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C. (June 14-17, 1971) 828-885.
• "Law and Development: The Future of Law and Development Research (Int. Legal Center and the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies; Uppsala, 1974) - report of the International Legal Center Research Advisory Committee (chair and principal draftsperson)
• "A Different Education for a Changing Profession: The Future of the UW Law School" (report of the Committee on the Future of the Law School) (1988)