The Government Procurement Review, one of the leading compilations of procurement laws from around the world, is now available in its 8th edition. Congratulations to the editors, Jonathan Davey and Amy Gatenby of the law firm of Addleshaw Goddard.
Amy Gatenby
The volume, published annually, covers procurement law from fourteen countries and the European Union, including reviews by leading procurement practitioners from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
For further information on foreign and international sources on public procurement law, please see the research guide prepared by GW Law’s government procurement research librarian, Mary Kate Hunter.
A new threat has emerged in the pandemic: fraud in the supply chain for critical COVID-19 supplies. Governments the world over are fighting back against price gouging and defective supplies. What tools are available, and will they work? Join a free one-hour webinar with GW Law, as experts discuss these critical global developments in anti-corruption and procurement.
Moderators: Christopher Yukins, GW Law School (Washington); Jean-Bernard Auby (Professor emeritus, Sciences Po Law School (Paris)); Gabriella Racca (University of Turin); Laurence Folliot Lalliot (University of Paris Nanterre (joining from Dakar))
The international procurement community is grappling with the COVID-19 coronavirus and its effects. To learn from procurement leaders in Europe and the United States how agencies and contractors are responding, GW Law held a free online colloquium (Zoom webinar) on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at 12 noon ET.
United Nations ILO Training – Sustainable Procurement
On 4 February 2020, Professor Yukins taught students from the sustainable procurement masters’ program at the UN training center in Turin, Italy. His slides — an introduction to U.S. procurement — are attached.
Professor Gabriella Racca hosted a colloquium on transnational procurement at the University of Turin on February 5, 2020. The discussion focused on a new book, Joint Public Procurement and Innovation: Lessons Across Borders(G. Racca & C. Yukins, eds., 2019). Further information is included in the accompanying flyer.
In an editorial published in Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Professor Gustavo Piga of the University of Rome – Tor Vergata, an activist in Italian politics and and a leader in the international procurement community, responded to an article by Christopher Yukins assessing the Trump administration’s latest Buy American initiative. Professor Piga argued that, though the actual impact of the Trump order might be minimal (as Professor Yukins pointed out), Italian policymakers should emulate U.S. support for small businesses, which the U.S. undertakes through protectionist preferences. Professor Piga closed: “GliStatiUniti lo insegnano chiaramente: non pensando per le piccole, smettiamo di pensare in grande.” (“The United States clearly teaches this: by not thinking of the small, we stop thinking big.”).
On May 30, 2019, there will be a conference on U.S. – EU environmental issues in Rome; the program for the colloquium, which will cover issues from climate change to sustainability in procurement, may be downloaded below.
Dr. G. Antonelli (B.A., M.A., J.D., LL.M, Ph.D.); Prof. M.V. Ferroni (Prof. of Administrative Law and Environmental Law at Sapienza University Department of Political Science); Prof. F. Giglioni (Prof. of Administrative Law, Environmental and Health Law. Director of the Ph.D. Program in Public, Comparative and International Law at Sapienza University Department of Political Science)
The conference was launched by Dr. Giovanni Antonelli, of the “Sapienza” University of Rome, with the support of Prof. F. Giglioni and Prof. M.V. Ferroni of the University’s Department of Political Science, and the Center for American Studies. Dr. Antonelli writes:
For over the last year we have
been thinking how to engage some of the most eminent international experts for
empowering our common interest and work towards potential models of sustainable
development.
Built upon the shared belief
that the current political divide felt over our continents is polarizing and
alienating not only our cultures but often
it is even estranging groups and movements that have similar values and
goals, the “U.S.–E.U. Environmental Law Colloquium” aims to encourage participation
and collaboration between American and European Scholars on a regular basis, to
share the progress of our researches and to launch new initiatives and projects
for the implementation of the environmental policies.
For the organization of this first
edition we do want to acknowledge the important role played by the Sapienza
University Department of Political Science and by the Center for American
Studies of Rome, without whose fundamental support this international project
would not have been carried out.
We would like to thank all the speakers who have decided to join our project, with a specific regard to Prof. J. Freeman (Harvard Law School), Prof. M. Gerrard (Columbia Law School), Prof. M. Scanlan (Vermont Law School), Prof. C. Yukins (GWU School of Law) and Prof. J. Dernbach (Widener University).
The all-day colloquium will begin at 9:30 a.m. on May 30, 2019, at the Center for American Studies, Via M. CAETANI, 32, Rome.
For information and reservations: giovanni.antonelli@uniroma1.it
