Biography - Ms. Anne Trebilcock, Former Legal Adviser ...

MS. ANNE TREBILCOCK
Former Legal Adviser
International Labour Organization
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Anne Trebilcock is former Legal Adviser and Director of Legal Services, International Labor
Organization (Geneva), where her career spanned almost 25 years, addressing issues of public
international law, international labour standards, comparative labour law and fundamental
principles and rights at work.
Since retiring from the ILO in 2008, she has served as Academic Advisor to the Centre de Droit
international of the Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. She is a member of the ad
hoc Appeals Tribunal of the GAVI Alliance and of the Advisory Board, Labour Law and
Development Research Network. She has served as a consultant to various organizations on
questions such as internal governance, corporate social responsibility, the social dimension of
regional integration, gender and labour, the use of plain legal language and measuring aspects of
the rule of law.
Currently (2011) co-editing the Manuel de droit international social, Anne Trebilcock is the
author of numerous journal articles and editor of several ILO publications. She has taught
courses at McGill University in Montreal and at the Universities of Detroit, Gießen, Göttingen
and San Diego, in addition to ad hoc lecturing at other universities and conferences.
Prior to joining the ILO, she was an assistant editor of the Encyclopaedia of Public International
Law at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg,
and before that was a lawyer for the International Union, United Auto Workers Union. She also
worked in Peru for two years as a journalist, translator and English teacher.
Anne Trebilcock holds a Bachelor’s degree in history from Wellesley College (highest honors)
and a Juris Doctor degree from Berkeley Law, University of California, where she was an
associate editor of the California Law Review.
She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the American Society of International Law, the
European Society of International Law, the International Labour and Employment Relations
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