Tuesday, April 20, 2021 – 9:00 ET – 14:00 UK – 15:00 CET
Join a free 90-minute webinar with King’s College, London and George Washington University Law School’s Government Procurement Program, to discuss sweeping post-Brexit changes proposed for the United Kingdom’s procurement laws.
- Christopher Vajda QC (Monckton Chambers / King’s College, London / former judge, Court of Justice of the European Union) – Moderator – Key differences between EU and UK approaches
- Michael Bowsher QC (Monckton Chambers / King’s College, London) – On history, and what’s missing. Michael Bowsher will address the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (remarks and links here), the European Union (Future Relationships) Act 2020, Procurement Policy Note 02/21: The WTO GPA and the UK-EU TCA. His chambers also hosted a very useful webinar on the proposed reforms.
- Professor Anne Davies (Professor of Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford) and Ruairi Macdonald (Research Associate, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford) – Impacts on social contracting (see Oxford POGO Club comments)
- Professor Luke Butler (University of Nottingham – Public Procurement Research Group) – Where’s defence? An assessment of UK defence procurement under the proposed changes
- Jane Jenkins / Kate Gough (Freshfields) – On bid challenges, debarment and contract administration
- Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells (Professor of Economic Law and Director of the Centre for Global Law and Innovation, University of Bristol Law School) – The Green Paper: Not what it says on the tin (see comments in the Bristol Law School blog, and an extended version in this recently published article. You can also read Albert’s full response to the Green Paper).
- Professor Christopher Yukins (George Washington University Law School) – U.S. perspectives and cooperation (see comments submitted to UK government)
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