In an effort to provide an appropriate tribute to his wonderful career, this study develops a set of themes that have been at the centre of Dave Trubek's work for decades, including development economics and the roles of law in developing countries, the structure and regulation of legal...

The article begins by describing the current female brain drain in the legal profession. Despite years of gender parity in law school, women currently comprise only about a third of practitioners. A number of factors lead to this situation, but a significant cause is the frequent “perfect...