University of Turin, Italy 19 May 2023
Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin, Italy 1-2 December 2022
Short presentations regarding the book will be made by the editors: Professor Martin Ebers (RAILS), Professor Cristina Poncibo (Turin) and Professor Mimi Zou (Exeter).
Special guest of honour is Professor Richard Susskind (Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England).
Public procurement refers to the process where the state buys goods, work and services from private suppliers. Considering its omnipresence and enormous size (approx. 12% of global GDP), the state’s purchasing activities can create new market behaviors and shift the existing ones towards sustainable consumption and production. Thus, sustainability has been implemented into public procurement concepts, regulation and practice. However, paying attention only to the public procurement law in connection with this phenomenon is not enough. To be precise, private law, particularly contract law, arbitration also plays a key role as contracts are implementation tools for the performance of public procurement goals. Thus, by taking a more holistic approach (sustainability, private and public law), PurpLe will deepen the understanding of interconnections between the above-mentioned to PurpLE's aim will be achieved by investigating three highly complementary research questions: 1) How does public procurement law impact the interpretation of contract law? 2) Can private law limit the outcome of public procurement law and, if so, how? 3) What does this complex interaction between public procurement and private law mean for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals agenda?
University of Zurich Main Building Rämistrasse 71 8006 Zürich
Roma Tre Law Department, Aula 4 - Edificio Tommaseo (ist floor), Via Ostiense, 139
The event will focus on the study entitled “Responsible private funding of litigation” authored by Jérôme Saulnier with Ivona Koronthalyova and Klaus Müller, European Added Value Unit, Directorate-General for European Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS), and the research paper annexed to it entitled “State of play of the EU private litigation funding landscape and the current EU rules applicable to private litigation funding”, co-written by Professors Cristina Poncibò and Elena D'Alessandro, University of Turin, Law Department, with cooperation, inter alia, by Dr. Niccolò Landi.