Christopher R. Yukins

Christopher R. Yukins has decades of experience in public procurement law, as a professor and as an attorney in both the government and the private sectors. He teaches in the GW Law Government Procurement Law Program, one of the leading programs of its kind in the world.

He served as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, where he handled government contract trials and appeals on behalf of the United States.

Since 2002, he has taught at GW Law on government contracts formations and performance issues, bid protests, disputes, debarment, anti-corruption and compliance, state and local procurement, foreign contracting, and international and comparative issues in public procurement law.

He is an active member of the Public Contract Law Section of the American Bar Association, and serves as the Academic Advisor to an ongoing reform of the ABA Model Procurement Code for state and local governments. He previously served as an advisor to the U.S. delegation on reform of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Public Procurement, and as the president of the Tysons Corner Chapter of the National Contract Management Association.

He is a faculty advisor to the Public Contract Law Journal, and has contributed pieces on procurement reform, international procurement and policy reform to a broad range of journals, including Washington Technology, the Government Contractor, Legal Times, and Federal Computer Week. He has published on procurement reform in scholarly journals, including the Public Contract Law Journal, the Georgetown Journal of International Law, and the Public Procurement Law Review (United Kingdom).

Professor Yukins regularly lectures and works around the world on issues of public procurement reform, through agencies and institutions such as the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the University of Turin, the University of Paris-Nanterre, Stockholm University, the International Anti-Corruption Academy (Vienna) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa)..

Together with his colleagues in the GW Law Government Procurement Law Program, he runs a popular webinar series on procurement reform around the world. In private practice, Professor Yukins has been an associate, partner, and of counsel at leading national and international firms; he is currently of counsel to the firm of Arnold & Porter.

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