International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Edward Rubin

Ed Rubin joined Vanderbilt Law School as dean and the first John Wade–Kent Syverud Professor of Law in July 2005. A distinguished and erudite scholar whose research has addressed a broad range of topics, Dean Rubin is the author of numerous books, articles and chapters, including two volumes published in 2005, Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State (Princeton University Press) and Federalism: A Theoretical Inquiry, co-authored with long-time collaborator Malcolm Feeley.

Dean Rubin previously served as the Theodore K. Warner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he taught administrative law, commercial law and seminars on topics ranging from administrative policy to law and technology, human rights and punishment theory.

He joined the law faculty at Pennsylvania in 1998 from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley, where he had taught since 1982 and served as an associate dean for three years.

He was active in university governance at both Pennsylvania and Berkeley. He served as secretary of the University of Pennsylvania Senate and was a member of the University Council. At Berkeley, he chaired the university-wide Privilege and Tenure Committee. He has served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools' sections on socioeconomics and scholarship and on its curriculum and research, professional development and nominations committees.

After earning his law degree from Yale University in 1979, Dean Rubin clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and was an associate with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison in New York, where he practiced entertainment law. Early in his career, he served as a curriculum planner with the New York City Board of Education.

Dean Rubin has been a consultant to the Asia Foundation Project on the Administrative Licensing Law for the People's Republic of China, the Russian Privatization Center and to the United Nations Development Programme.