Combatting Collusion (and Corruption) in Public Procurement

Melbourne Law School hopes you can join us for this special lecture event presented by Professor Alison Jones, King’s College London. Please join us from 5:30 pm for networking with drinks and light refreshments prior to the lecture commencement at 6:00pm.

2024 Baxt Public Lecture

Combatting Collusion (and Corruption) in Public Procurement presented by Professor Alison Jones, King's College London

Competition agencies are facing an ever-expanding set of challenges. Despite the pressure on their resources, this lecture seeks to highlight why the fight against cartels, especially those affecting public procurement, should remain a high enforcement priority for competition authorities.

It will consider why, despite significant efforts to fight them, collusion and corruption remain pervasive problems in public procurement, and examine the severe negative impact these practices may have for governments, citizens, and economies. It will provide some thoughts on how efforts to combat these practices can be bolstered, including through prevention, deterrence, and greater policy coordination between public procurement, competition, and anti-corruption authorities.

About the presenter

Alison Jones is Professor of Law at King’s College London and a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Alison teaches and researches in the sphere of competition law. She is a co-author of Jones and Sufrin’s EU Competition Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (OUP, 8th ed, 2023), Combatting Corruption and Collusion in Public Procurement: A Challenge for Governments Worldwide (OUP, 2024), and has published in leading academic and specialist competition journals and a number of edited collections. Her research has won Concurrences Antitrust writing awards. She has also prepared expert reports for the European Commission, the UK Government and the US House Committee of the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.

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