The Oxford-Achilles Working Group
on Corporate Social Responsibility

Developing knowledge about CSR

Corporate Social Responsibility in Utilities' Supply Chains: The Implications of the EU Procurement Rules

Prof Sue Arrowsmith, University of Nottingham
Seminar: 7 June 2007

Biography: Professor Sue Arrowsmith has a first class honours degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, a Doctorate in Jurisprudence from Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. She is currently Professor of Public Procurement Law and Director of the Public Procurement Research Group in the School of Law, University of Nottingham. She is author and editor of numerous books and articles on public procurement and on administrative law. Her authored books include The Law of Public and Utilities Procurement (Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd ed 2005) on UK/EC procurement law; (with Linarelli and Wallace) Regulating Public Procurement; National and International perspectives (Kluwer, 2000); and Government Procurement in the WTO (Kluwer, 2003). She is the Editor of the international journal Public Procurement Law Review and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of International Government Contractor.

As well as teaching academic courses on public procurement, she has extensive experience in providing training for both purchasers and lawyers, and has presented papers on procurement in more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. She works regularly as a consultant for Achilles Information and has also undertaken work for many public and private bodies, including the Office of Government Commerce, the World Trade Organisation, the European Commission, the OECD, the United Nations, the European Central Bank, the International Labour Organisation and the Law Commission of England and Wales.

She has been involved in procurement law reform for many years as a member (since 1997) of the European Commission's, Advisory Committee for the Opening Up of Public Procurement; as a member of the UNCITRAL Experts Group on Procurement in connection with the on-going reform of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement; and as a consultant to foreign governments and international organizations.