Developments in Defense Procurement Law: Europe and the United States

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Europe’s rapidly evolving security situation has launched a defense build-up of unprecedented scale and scope in the European theater. Join these free one-hour webinars, sponsored by the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College, London and the George Washington University Law School’s Government Procurement Law Program, to discuss key legal challenges governments and contractors face in emerging defense markets, both in Europe and the United States.

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Moderators:

Michael Bowsher QC, Monckton Chambers & Visiting Professor, King’s College, London
Allen Green, Retired Partner, Dentons; Professorial Lecturer in Law, GW Law School
Daniel Schoeni, Judge Advocate, U.S. Air Force; Professorial Lecturer in Law, GW Law School
Christopher Yukins, Lynn David Research Professor in Government Procurement Law, GW Law School

U.S. Defense Procurement: Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 9 am Eastern / 14:00 UK / 15:00 CET

https://youtu.be/2t3fAat1NqE

Webinar – US Defense Procurement Law – 9 Nov 2022

Program Slides

Program Chat

Charles Blanchard, Arnold & Porter (Washington) – Technology/Acquisition Controls
Larry Boles, Teledyne FLIR (Washington) – Offsets
Kate Growley, Crowell & Moring International – Cybersecurity and compliance
Marques Peterson, Pillsbury (Washington) – Foreign Military Sales
Lorrine Romero, Senior Counsel, L3Harris Technologies (Washington) – Trade controls

Resources – U.S. Defense Procurement

U.S. Department of Defense, Foreign Military Financing

U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Guidelines for Foreign Military Financing of Direct Commercial Contracts

U.S. Department of Defense, Reciprocal Defense Procurement Agreements

U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control – Sanctions Programs and Information

Daniel Schoeni, Defense Offsets and Public Policy: Beyond Economic Efficiency, 76 Air Force Law Review 95 (2016)

European Defense Procurement: Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 9 am / 14:00 UK / 15:00 CET

This program had registrants from 46 countries across five continents.

Panel Slides

Charlotte Brunlid, DLA Piper (Stockholm) – Swedish perspective
Luke Butler, University of Nottingham – UK Single-Source Procurement
Tomasz Darowski, DZP (Warsaw) – Defense procurement in Central and Eastern Europe
Pascal Friton, BLOMSTEIN (Berlin) – German perspective: extending exemptions and restricting legal protections

World Bank – Military Spending as Percentage of GDP (2020)

Resources

European Union

Ian Bond and Luigi Scazzieri, The EU, NATO and European security in a time of war (Aug. 2022)

European Defence Agency, Defence Data 2019-2020

Charlotte Brunlid, Säkerhetsskyddad upphandling (Security-Related Procurement), 2019 UrT 109

United Kingdom

UK Parliament, House of Commons Library, Defence spending pledges by NATO members since Russia invaded Ukraine (Aug. 2022)

UK Parliament, House of Commons Library, Military assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion (Oct. 2022)

UK Single Source Contract Regulation (2014)

UK Parliament, House of Commons Library, Defence procurement reform: The single source contract regulations

General RESEARCH RESOURCES

Reforming Defense Procurement: Lessons from France (2017)

Accelerating Military Innovation: Lessons from China and Israel (2020)

U.S. Crest, The Nature and Impacts of Barriers to Trade with the United States for European Defence Industries (2009)

“In his book, [Luke] Butler attempts for the first time to look at defence procurement, a field that was traditionally jealously guarded by States against foreign competition, in the context of EU-USA relations and more generally taking into account the legal barriers to free trade in the defence markets.”

– Dacian Dragos, Common Market Law Review