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Olga Martin-Ortega and Claire Methven O’Brien (eds.), Public Procurement and Human Rights: Opportunities, Risks and Dilemmas for the State as Buyer (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019), ISBN 1788116305

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Olga Martin-Ortega and Claire Methven O’Brien (eds.), Public Procurement and Human Rights: Opportunities, Risks and Dilemmas for the State as Buyer (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019), ISBN 1788116305

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2021

Olabisi D. AKINKUGBE*
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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1 The authors of the chapters in Parts II and III are: Opi Outhwaite, Sope Williams-Elegbe, Deborah Russo, Geo Quinot, Albert Sanchez-Graells, Eamonn Conlon, Axel Marx, James Sinclair, Pauline Göthberg, Caroline Emberson and Alexander Trautrims, Björn Skorpen Claeson, and Robert Stumberg and Nicole Vander Meulen.

2 Sope Williams-Elegbe, chapter 3: Human rights in the context of public procurements financed by the World Bank; Deborah Russo, chapter 4: The human rights responsibilities of international organizations as procuring authorities; and Geo Quinot, chapter 5: Constitutionalising public procurement through human rights: lessons from South Africa.

3 Transparency International, ‘In South Africa, COVID-19 has Exposed Greed and Spurred Long-Needed Action Against Corruption’, 4 September 2020, https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/in-south-africa-covid-19-has-exposed-greed-and-spurred-long-needed-action-against-corruption# (accessed 4 December 2020).

4 See Willams-Elegbe, Sope, ‘A Perspective on Corruption and Public Procurement in Africa’, in Quinot, Geo and Arrowsmith, Sue (eds.), Public Procurement Regulation in Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 336369.Google Scholar

5 Akinkugbe, Olabisi D, ‘Informal Networks of Corruption: Assessing the Challenges for Public Sector Whistleblowing in Nigeria’ (2018) 9 Jindal Global Law Review 1128.CrossRefGoogle Scholar