Our Early Stage Researcher Nadia Sava (ESR4, Babes-Bolyai University) and our Lead Researcher Dacian Dragos (Jean Monnet Professor of Administrative and European Law at the Babes-Bolyai University) published together a paper entitled The legal regime of smart contracts in public procurement.

This paper was featured in Issue n. 66 E, 2022, of the Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences journal. This journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal focused on themes such as “public management, public policy, administrative law, public policy analysis, regional development, community development, public finances, urban planning, program evaluation in public administration, ethics, comparative administrative systems, etc ”.

Paper abstract

“This article attempts to critically review the applications of smart contracts in public procurement. The literature on the topic is characterized by an emphasis on potential advantages and uses of this emerging technology, while it lacks in the concrete practical implementations of smart contracts in public procurement. In this context, we wish to realistically outline the legal regime of smart public procurement contracts. For this, we analyze the potential use of blockchain and smart contracts in public procurement at two stages: contract award and contract execution. Our article also discusses case studies of smart public procurement contracts, in order to assess their compatibility with and their impact on the EU public procurement system”.

Nadia Sava

Early Stage Researcher n. 4

Babes-Bolyai University

Dacian Dragos

Jean Monnet Professor of Administrative and European Law with the Public Administration and Management Department, and the Law Doctoral School at the Babes-Bolyai University