Over the past quarter-century David Petrie, a 56-year-old Scotsman has attended, in the capacity of plaintiff or interested observer, at least 80 court hearings at various levels of the Italian and pan-European judicial systems--all in cases of alleged job discrimination by Italian universities. In the process, Mr. Petrie has become the public face of a movement by foreign higher-education instructors who seek pay and working conditions equal to those of their Italian counterparts. This has made him a symbol for the European Union's failure to realize one of the essential goals of its founding treaty: the free movement of workers. This article profiles Mr. Petrie.