The Health Law Project focuses on health law, policy and administration with a multidisciplinary, international approach. It is under the direction of Professor Louise G. Trubek Emerita. Professor Trubek also has appointments as Public Health Program Faculty and Faculty Affiliate, La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Professor Trubek is principal investigator of the “ Initiative on Governance and Health System Change” Professor Tom Oliver, Associate Professor, UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) serves as co-principal investigator. The Initiative, funded in part by the European Union Center for Excellence, plans on presenting major conferences in 2009 and 2010 on health quality and health disparities. Scholars from the United States and the European Union will participate. The Initiative will coordinate a cross-campus working group on health policy.
Recent health publications in by Prof. Trubek include:
Achieving Equality: Healthcare Governance in Transition (with Maya Das) DePaul Journal of Health Care Law Vol.7 245 (2004)
Hard and Soft Law in the Construction of Social Europe: the Role of the Open Method of Co-ordination (with David M. Trubek) European Law Journal Vol.11 343-364 (2005)
New Governance Practices in U.S. Health Care published in Law and New Governance in the EU and US ,DeBurca & Scott,eds Hart Publishing 2006
New Governance and Soft Law in Health Care Reform, Indiana Health Law Review, Vol 3 139-169 (2006)
New Governance and Legal Regulation: Complementarity, Rivalry, and Transformation (with David M. Trubek) Vol.13 p.539 Columbia Journal of European Law (2007)
Freedom to Provide Health Care Services in the EU: An Opportunity for “Hybrid Governance” with Tamara Hervey, Vol,13 p.623 Columbia Journal of European Law(2007)
Health Care and New Governance: The Quest for Effective Regulation editor Regulation and Governance Volume 2 Issue 1 (2008)
The Construction of Healthier Europe: Lesson from the War on Cancer (with Mark Nance and Tamara Hervey) Wisconsin Journal of International Law forthcoming Fall, 2008.