The intersection of Public Procurement Law and Policy, and International Investment Law

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dc.contributor.authorDagbanja, Dominic Npoanlarien_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-07T09:18:03Z
dc.date.available2022-04-07T09:18:03Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-14
dc.descriptionCITATION: Dagbanja, Dominic Npoanlari. The intersection of Public Procurement Law and Policy, and International Investment Law. 2020. Transnational Corporations Journal, 27(2):65-92, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3692311.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe origial publication is available at: https://papers.ssrn.comen_ZA
dc.description.abstractThere is substantial scholarship on the limitations that international investment agreements (IIAs) place on States’ authority to regulate in the public interest. An area of fundamental importance that has not received scholarly attention in connection with IIAs is public procurement regulation. Given that public procurement is about the needs of States and their citizens, States would want to retain their authority within municipal public procurement laws to decide with whom to contract to meet those needs, and to pursue socioeconomic and industrial policies through procurement. However, most States are parties to IIAs, which impose obligations on them with respect to the protection of foreign investment. This article explores this seminal issue of whether IIAs stand to limit the authority of States in the implementation of procurement legislation and policies. Based on textual analysis and arbitral case study, it argues that treaty-based standards of investment protection can limit States’ authority on the implementation of methods of procurement (such as national competitive tendering or restricted tendering) and socioeconomic policies in procurement. A question that needs fuller engagement is the extent of conflict between specific IIAs and public procurement laws and policies, either regionally or globally, and how to reconcile conflicting obligations to promote foreign investment and sustainable development. This article provides the foundation for such future research.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent28 pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationDagbanja, Dominic Npoanlari. The intersection of Public Procurement Law and Policy, and International Investment Law. 2020. Transnational Corporations Journal, 27(2):65-92en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/124422
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherTransnational Corporations Journalen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthor retains copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectInvestments, Foreign (International law)en_ZA
dc.subjectMethods of procurementen_ZA
dc.subjectSocioeconomic policiesen_ZA
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten_ZA
dc.titleThe intersection of Public Procurement Law and Policy, and International Investment Lawen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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