School of Law: Dan Schoeni

Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Schoeni was a U.S. Air Force judge advocate (2004–25), where he served as a trial and appellate litigator, worked extensively in security cooperation especially in Latin America, and specialized in government procurement law.  Prior to the military, he clerked for Justice Jerry Larson of the Iowa Supreme Court. 

Professor Schoeni has also worked as an adjunct since 2016, first at King’s College London (2016–23), where he taught a course on defense procurement law in the European Union, and in the George Washington University Law School’s Government Procurement Law Program (2022–present), where he teaches the program’s two core courses, Formation of Government Contracts and Performance of Government Contracts. 

His scholarship has spanned a number of government procurement-related subjects, but his current research interests concentrate on three areas: defense procurement, trade and public procurement, and state and local procurement.  His writings have also won several awards, including the ABA’s Standing Committee on Armed Forces Law’s Keithe E. Nelson award and the Air Force JAG Corps’s Thomas P. Keenan award for operational and international law.

As the NCR Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology, Professor Schoeni also directs the law school’s Program in Law and Technology.

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University of Nottingham, Ph.D., 2023

George Washington University, LL.M., 2014

University of Nottingham, LL.M., 2011

University of Iowa, J.D., 2003

University of Iowa, M.A., 2003

Brigham Young University, B.A., 2000

A complete list of research and scholarship is available on the Social Science Research Network.

Articles

Coauthored with Derek McKee, Federalism, Procurement Liberalization, and Domestic Review Procedures: Implementation of the GPA in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces, 55 Pub. Cont. L.J. _  (2025)

Coauthored with Derek McKee, The GPA's Domestic Review Procedures Through the Lens of North American Sub-Central Implementation: Flexibility or Incoherence?, 34 Pub. Proc. L. Rev. 270 (2025) (UK)

An Empirical Study of Bid Protests by Disappointed Tenderers in U.S. States, 34 Pub. Proc. L. Rev. 289 (2025) (UK)

U.S. Defense Procurement, 2 Upphandlingsrätt Tidskrift 87 (2024) (Sweden) (by invitation)

Coauthored with Luke Butler and Martin Trybus, A Special Issue on The Emerging Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on Defence Procurement in Europe, 33 Pub. Proc. L. Rev. 335 (2023) (UK)

Coauthored with Christopher Yukins, U.S.-European Defense Cooperation:  Imperatives in a Time of War, 33 Pub. Proc. L. Rev. 445 (2023) (UK)

Challenges Brought by U.S. Economic Operators in EU Member States, Upphandlingsrätt Tidskrift 1 (2023) (Sweden)

DARPA’s Role in the Development of mRNA Vaccines, 24 Revista de la Escuela Jacobea de Posgrado 1 (2023) (Mexico) (by invitation)

Government Contracts Law as an Instrument of National Power: A Perspective from the Department of the Air Force, 52 Pub. Cont. L.J. 553 (2022)

Differing Perspectives on Defence Procurement: The Relative Composition of Purchases as a Barrier to Transatlantic Understanding and Trade Liberalisation, 30 Pub. Proc. L. Rev. 45 (2021) (UK)

Whither Innovation? Why Open Systems Architecture May Deliver on the False Promise of Public-Private Partnerships, 70 Admin. L. Rev. 409 (2018)

Still Too Slow for Cyber Warfare: Why Extension of the Rapid Acquisition Authority and the Special Emergency Procurement Authority to Cyber Are Half Measures, 46 Pub. Cont. L.J. 833 (2017)

Personal Debarment for Non-distributive Corporate Misconduct: On the Efficacy of Debarring the Individual from Government Contracts for Collective Wrongdoing, 46 Pub. Cont. L.J. 51 (2016)

Defense Offsets and Public Policy: Beyond Economic Efficiency, 76 A.F. L. Rev. 51 (2016)

A Hidden Statutory Bar to Private Causes of Action for Breaches of the WTO’s Agreement on Government Procurement, 37 U. Penn. J. Int’l L. 295 (2015)

Second-Best Markets: On the Hidden Efficiency of Defense Offsets, 44 Pub. Cont. L.J. 369 (2015)

Long on Rhetoric, Short on Results: Agile Methods and Cyber Acquisitions in the Department of Defense, 31 Santa Clara High Tech. L.J. 386 (2015)

Book Chapters

Coauthored with Christopher Yukins, Defense Procurement: Lessons from the United States’ Articles of Confederation, in The Economics and Law of Public Procurement: New Global Scenario (Gustavo Piga, Annalisa Castelli & Tünde Tátrai eds., 2024)

Corruption in Defense Procurement, in The Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption (Sope Williams & Jessica Tillipman eds., 2024) (by invitation)

Co-edited with Tobias Vestner, Ethical Dilemmas in the Global Defense Industry (2023)

Coauthored chapter with Tobias Vestner, Introduction: Engaging Both Horns of the Ethical Dilemma

Authored chapter, Some Ethical Dimensions of Defense Offsets

Coauthored with Christopher Yukins, Principles of Public Contracts in the United States, in Les Principes des Contrats Publics en Europe (Stéphane de La Rosa & Patricia Valcárcel eds., 2022) (France)

Non-tariff Barriers Obstructing Trade in the Transatlantic Defense Procurement Market, in Joint Public Procurement and Innovation (Gabriella Racca & Christopher Yukins eds., 2019)

Presenter, May 16, 2025, U.S. and EU Challenge Procedures: Utilization of and Compliance with the Revised Government Procurement Agreement, Swedish Procurement Conference, Stockholm, Sweden

Panelist, May 12, 2025, First 100 Days for Government Contractors, DC Bar, Washington, DC

Presenter, Mar. 19, 2025, Procedimientos de Selección en Contratación Pública en los EE. UU., 3er Congreso Internacional de Contratación Estatal, Barranquilla, Colombia

Co-presenter, Dec. 12, 2024, Contrats Publics dans la Globalisation Juridique network’s presentation on current research to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France

Co-presenter, June 17, 2024, Federalism, Procurement Liberalization, and Domestic Review Procedures: The Implementation of the GPA in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces, Public Procurement: Global Revolution Conference 2024, Nottingham, UK

Panelist, June 3, 2024, La Contratación Pública como Motor del Desarrollo, Congreso Internacional de Contrataciones Públicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Presenter, Apr. 26, 2024, A Comparison of U.S. and EU Public Procurement Systems, Swedish Procurement Conference, Stockholm, Sweden

Panelist, Sept. 18, 2023, Public Procurement Workshop, U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime, Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Presenter, Sept. 14, 2023, Ethical Dilemmas of the Global Defense Industry, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC

Presenter, June 1, 2023, Sustainable Procurement Efforts in the United States, Bar-Ilan University School of Business, Ramat Gan, Israel

Presenter, Mar. 17, 2023, Public Procurement and Digital Transition, University of Turin, School of Law, Turin, Italy

Presenter, Nov. 9, 2022, U.S. State Bid Protests, National Association of State Procurement Officers, Procurement Law Institute, Charleston, South Carolina

Moderator, Nov. 9, 2022, Transatlantic Defense Procurement, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC

Presenter, July 12, 2022, U.S. State Bid Protests, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC

Presenter, June 14, 2022, U.S. State Bid Protests, Public Procurement: Global Revolution XI, University of Nottingham School of Law, Nottingham, UK

Presenter, Oct. 4, 2021, DARPA’s Role in the Development of mRNA Vaccines, Temas Clave de la Contratación Pública, Congreso Internacional, University of Vigo, Spain

Presented Sept. 19, 2020, Trends in Government Contracts, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC

Presenter, Dec. 12, 2019, Principles of Public Contracts in the United States, Contrats Publics dans la Globalisation Juridique University of Paris-Creteil, School of Law, France

Presenter, June 18, 2019, Differing Perspectives on Defence Procurement, Public Procurement: Global Revolution IX, University of Nottingham School of Law, Nottingham, UK

Interview, Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Federal News Radio (Jan. 23, 2019)

Presenter, Oct. 26, 2017, Mitigating Corruption Risks Associated with Defense Offsets, 8th Conference, IFBEC, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC

Interview, Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Federal News Radio (Oct. 5, 2017)

Presenter, May 23, 2016, Defense Offsets and Public Policy, Aerospace Defense Security Group’s Global Industrial Cooperation Conference in Toledo, Spain

Presenter, May 15, 2016, Still Too Slow for Cyber Warfare, Legal Challenges in Cyberspace, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Presenter, Apr. 6, 2016, Defense Offsets and Public Policy, Defense Industry Offset Association conference, Park City, UT

Guest Lecturer, Oct. 16, 2015, Cyberspace, Drones & Emerging Technologies: Law of Armed Conflict, Defense Institute of International Legal Studies, Newport Naval Station, RI

Presenter, Sept. 28, 2015, On the Hidden Efficiency of Defense Offsets, Global Offsets and Countertrade Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA

Presenter, June 15, 2015, Defense Offsets and Public Policy, Public Procurement: Global Revolution VII, University of Nottingham School of Law, Nottingham, UK

Presenter, May 13, 2014, The New WTO Government Procurement Agreement: Its Impact on World Procurement Markets, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC