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Contemporary changes in law and policy at the global level to efficiently answer to environmental and social issues correspond to the traditional approach of limiting the regulatory and policy changes to a singular field or discipline: tackling the inherent unsustainability of corporate laws.
List of contents
- Introduction to Sustainability in Public Procurement, Corporate Law and Higher Education, Paolo Davide Farah
I. Sustainable Public Procurement
- Public procurement for the SDGs – Rethinking the basics, Roberto Caranta
- Searching for the right balance between sustainability and competition – Dagne Sabockis
- Sustainable Public Procurement in Portugal: Overview, Recent Developments and Expectations on the Near Future, Marco Caldeira
- EU Green Deal and the Portuguese public procurement – Raquel Carvalho
- Emerging role of green public procurement policy in achieving sustainable development: a case study of India, Mukesh Rawat and Dr. K.D. Raju
- Analysis of the mandatory sustainable public procurement regulation in the Czech Republic, Adam Gromnica
- Implications of empirical research on the impact of e-public procurement on institutional quality, Thomas Emery, Lela Mélon and Rok Spruk
II. Sustainable Corporate Conduct
- (In)Corporate Sustainability: policy coherence for sustainable corporate conduct, Lela Mélon
- Corporate Sustainability through Private Regulation? The Question of Policy Coherence for Sustainability, Martine Bosman and Bart Jansen
- Looking through a glass darkly – transparency as a misguided regulatory instrument in corporate governance, Wafa Khlif, Finn Janning and Coral Ingley
- Sustainable Corporate Governance, Nandini Garg and Vasu Machanda
- Corporate Sustainability – what is the role of corporate law academics?, Anne-Marie Weber
III. Sustainability in Higher Education
- The Need to Incorporate Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education Curricula, Nandini Garg and Parikshet Sirohi
- The contribution of higher education to sustainable development: global trends and issues, Francesc Pedro
- Sustainable Development Goals in higher education as a global policy framework, Maryna Lakhno
- Education for sustainability: full spead ahead!, Carina Hopper and Johanna Wagner
- Epilogue on EU policy coherence on sustainability: are we there yet?, Lela Mélon
About the author
Lela Mélon is a former Marie Curie Research Fellow with a legal and economics background. She is currently the director of Masters in European and Global Law at the Pompeu Fabra University and the director of the postgraduate program on Sustainability Transition at ESCI-UPF as well as assistant director of the masters of science in sustainability management at ESCI-UPF and UPF-BSM. She specialises in EU law, with a focus on corporate conduct and sustainability, and is currently researching policy coherence for sustainability at EU level, with particular interest in corporate law policies. She is also active in the consulting sector through her activity at msg global (Spain) and CER Partnership (Slovenia), where she is assisting corporations to carry out the sustainability transition.
Summary
Contemporary changes in law and policy at the global level to efficiently answer to environmental and social issues correspond to the traditional approach of limiting the regulatory and policy changes to a singular field or discipline: tackling the inherent unsustainability of corporate laws.
