Public Procurement
The Utrecht University Centre for Public Procurement is hosting its bi-annual Interdisciplinary Public Procurement PhD Forum on 16 May 2023 and has an open call for abstracts for Ph.D candidates.The call is available here and it looks like a great opportunity for Ph.D students to meet their
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Two PhD positions have just been announced for CBS LAW. One in Compliance/Financial Compliance, the other in Digital Transformations & Law, both starting in Autumn 2022: https://www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa-cbs/ledige-stillinger/phd-scholarship-within-the-field-of-compliancefinancial-compliance-the-department-of-management https://www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa-cbs/ledige-stillinger/phd-scholarship-within-the-field-of-digital-transformations-and-the-law-the-department-of-management I’m not involved direc
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My group at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS LAW) is offering a fully funded Ph.D opportunity for a research project on climate law and economics. The details of the post are available here. In addition, our department is also offering an additional fully funded Ph.D position. This is
Public Procurement
The PPRG has recently published a new edition of its extensive public procurement bibliography, the first from 2011 and with 4,000 new entries. The PDF is available here. Having modestly contributed to the first edition when I was a Ph.D student at Nottingham a decade ago, it is
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Myself and Albert co-authored a blogpost at the University of Bristol’s Law School blog reflecting on the frustrating state of trying to undertake EU law research in these times of Brexit and fitting it into the good old REF framework. Here’s a snippet: Brexit, its research and its
Public Procurement
I do not remember well when I first came across with the 'best practices' concept. Maybe during my Ph.D or soon after starting working at Bangor. But back then I was already puzzled by it. What are 'best practices'? How and why are they considered
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My good friend Dr. Elvira Uyarra sent me this opportunity for prospective Ph.D students interested in working in public procurement at the Manchester Institute for Innovation Research: This project seeks to exploit unstructured data from patents, publications and new open sources of “big data” to investigate the influences of
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This is a slide I will be using on Monday’s EU law lecture. I have not drilled down into the details, namely if there is any evolution or if there has been an increase on Commission’s delegated Regulations but I was suprised at the findings. The EU legal
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I have uploaded to SSRN a new working paper entitled "Protection from Exclusion: A Reassessment of Union Citizenship in the Time of Brexit" co-authored with Volker Roeben, Keith Bush, Petra Minnerop and Jukka Snell. Here's the abstract: "The received wisdom on Union Citizenship is statist:
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A couple of weeks ago I delivered a presentation on electronic procurement in Portugal at this year's Procurement Week conference in Bangor. As some of you have asked for the presentation, here it is embedded in all its glory. A downloadable PDF is available on the Presentations tab.
Public Procurement
I have just uploaded to my SSRN repository a new paper which will be published later this year in the European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review (EPPPL). The paper is focused on the relationship between the EU procurement thresholds and the GPA, arguing that the current threshold levels
Public Procurement
Season 1 of the Public Procurement Podcast wrapped up earlier this month, so now is the time to reflect on the experience. In one year I since getting the go ahead, the website went up and so did 20 interesting interviews with (mostly) early career researchers in public procurement. Here