Prof. Geo Quinot

(Professor of Law – Stellenbosch University)

gquinot@sun.ac.za

rpafdnetwork@gmail.com

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Geo Quinot is trained in law, public administration and higher education. He is currently a Professor of Law in the Department of Public Law at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, where he is also affiliated with the School of Public Leadership. He is the Founding Director of the African Procurement Law Unit (APLU), a multi-institutional academic unit focusing on research and education in public procurement policy and regulation in Africa. Quinot is also admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. He teaches administrative law and public procurement law in the Law Faculty and the School for Public Leadership at Stellenbosch University. He also regularly instructs public administrators in both administrative law and public procurement regulation.

His research focuses on administrative law, with a particular interest in commercial conduct of the state, including public procurement as well as legal education. He is the founding director of the African Procurement Law Unit (APLU) and editor of the African Public Procurement Law Journal.

Prof Quinot was also appointed as a university teaching fellow for the period 2013-2015 with a focus on the development of a pedagogy of law in South Africa and completed the national Teaching Advancement at Universities (TAU) Fellowship programme in 2016. Prof Quinot is a fellow of the Public Procurement Research Group at the University of Nottingham in the UK and a board member of the journal, Public Procurement Law Review. 

Quinot is a recipient of the University of Stellenbosch Chancellor’s Medal, the annual award for the most outstanding final-year student at the university, which he received upon graduating from his LLB degree in 2000. Other noteworthy awards that he has received include the Rector’s Award for Community Interaction, which he received jointly with Prof Sandra Liebenberg in 2008, the CHE/HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award in 2012 and the Stellenbosch University Chancellor’s Award in 2016.

  • BA LL.B. Stellenbosch University 
  • LL.M. University of Virginia School of Law
  • MA in Higher Education Studies, University of the Free State
  • MPA, University of Birmingham, School of Government
  • LLD, Stellenbosch University
  • Administrative Law
  • Public Procurement Law
  • Insolvency Law
  • Legal Education
  • Williams, S. & Quinot, G. “Public Procurement and Corruption: The South African Response” (2007) 124:2 South African Law Journal 339
  • Quinot, G. “Worse than Losing a Government Tender: Winning It” (2008) 19:1 Stellenbosch Law Review/Regstydskrif 101
  • Williams, S. & Quinot, G. “To Debar or not to Debar: When to Endorse a Contractor on the Register for Tender Defaulters” (2008) 125:2 South African Law Journal 248

    • Quinot, G. “Towards Effective Judicial Review of State Commercial Activity” (2009) Journal of South African Law 436

    1. Quinot G State Commercial Activity: A Legal Framework (2009) Juta & Co (author)
    2. Quinot, G. “Globalisation, State Commercial Activity and the Transformation of Administrative Law” in M Faure & AJ van der Walt (eds) Globalization and Private Law (2010) Edward Elgar Publishing
    3. Bolton, P. & Quinot, G. “Social Policies in Procurement and the Government Procurement Agreement: a Perspective from South Africa” in S Arrowsmith & R Anderson (eds) The WTO Regime on Government Procurement: Recent Developments and Challenges Ahead (2011) Cambridge University Press
    4. Quinot, G. “Enforcement of Procurement Law from a South African Perspective” (2011) 20 Public Procurement Law Review 193
    5. Quinot G & Arrowsmith S (eds) Public Procurement Regulation in Africa (2013) Cambridge University Press (co-author and co-editor)
    6. Quinot, G. “The Role of Quality in the Adjudication of Public Tenders” (2014) 17 Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 1110
    7. Quinot, G. “In-house provisioning and South African public procurement law” (2014) 39 Journal for Juridical Science 115
    8. Quinot G (ed) Administrative Justice in South Africa: An Introduction (2015) Oxford University Press (co-author and editor)
    9. Quinot, G. “Innovation, state contracting and public procurement law” (2015) 7 Trade, Law and Development 137
    10. Quinot, G. “Public Contracts” in A Farazmand (ed) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (2016) Springer
    11. Quinot, G. “Private Law and Public Administration” in A Farazmand (ed) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (2016) Springer 52-68
    12. Quinot, G. “Control and litigation in public contracts in South Africa” in L Folliot Lalliot & S Torricelli (eds) Contrôles et contentieux des contrats publics – Oversight and Challenges of public contracts (2018) Bruylant
    13. Williams-Elegbe S & Quinot G (eds) Public Procurement Regulation for 21st Century Africa (2018) Juta & Co (co-author & co-editor)
    14. Quinot G. “The Third Wave of Preferential Procurement Regulations in South Africa” (2018) Journal of South African Law 856
    15. Quinot G. “Constitutionalising Public Procurement through Human Rights: Lessons from South Africa” in O Martin-Ortega & C Methven O’Brien (eds) Public Procurement and Human Rights (2019) Edward Elgar Publishing
    16. Stoffel, T., Cravero, C., La Chimia, A. and Quinot, G. “Multidimensionality of Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP)—Exploring Concepts and Effects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe” (2019) 11:22, 6352 Sustainability, 1
    17. Shai, L., Molefinyana, C. and Quinot, G. “Public Procurement in the Context of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) in South Africa—Lessons Learned for Sustainable Public Procurement” (2019) 11:24, 7164 Sustainability, 1
    18. Quinot G & Williams-Elegbe S (eds) Public Procurement Regulation in Africa: Development in Uncertain Times (2020) LexisNexis (co-author & co-editor)
    19. Quinot, G. (ed) Administrative Justice in South Africa: An Introduction 2nd ed (2020) Oxford University Press (co-author and editor)
    20. Quinot, G. “Reforming Procurement Law in South Africa” (2020) 7 African Public Procurement Law Journal 1
    21. Quinot, G. “Differences in States’ Procurement Practices” in A Farazmand (ed) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. (2021) Springer
    22. Quinot, G., Williams-Elegbe, S & Udeh, K.T. “Emergency Procurement and Responses to COVID-19 in Africa: The Contrasting Cases of South Africa and Nigeria” in S Arrowsmith, LRA Butler, A La Chimia & C Yukins (eds) Public Procurement Regulation in (a) Crisis? (2021) Bloomsbury Publishing
    23. De Schutter, O., Quinot, G. & Swensson, L.F.J. “Food procurement as a development tool: the role of the regulatory framework” in L.F.J. Swensson, D. Hunter, S. Schneider & F. Tartanac (eds) Public Food Procurement for Sustainable Food Systems and Healthy Diets, Vol 1 (2021) FAO, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and Editora da UFRGS
    24. Ajam, T., Burger, J., Quinot, G., Botha, M., Isaacs, D., & Douglas, J. “Towards increased fiscal and operational sustainability in Western Cape Municipalities” (2021) 16(4) Local Government Bulletin 1
    25. Quinot, G. “Local Public Entities in Distress: An Analysis of the South African Approach” in E. Vaccari, Y. Marique & L.N. Coordes (eds) Local Public Entities in Distress: A Global Study (2022) Insol International
    26. Quinot, G. “Legal Regulation of Public Procurement in South Africa” in Kichik & G. Mordokhov (eds) Public Procurement Law Around the World Vol II (2022) Yustitsinform
    27. Quinot, G. & Anthony, A. “Towards Open Contracting in South African Public Procurement Law” (2022) 31 Public Procurement Law Review 113
    28. Quinot, G. “Human rights and developmental considerations in procuring for Africa’s first World Cup” in O. Martin-Ortega & L. Trevino-Lozano (eds) Sustainable Public Procurement of Infrastructure and Human Rights (2023) Edward Elgar
    29. Quinot, G. “Contemporary trends in the development of public procurement law in South Africa” (2023) 85(1) Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 71
    30. Quinot, G. “Corruption and Covid-19 procurement” in S. Williams & J. Tillipman (eds) Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption (2024) Routledge

    31. Quinot, G. “The UNCITRAL Model Law and the Past and Future of Procurement Regulation in Africa” in A La Chimia & M Trybus (eds) Reforming Public Procurement Law (2024) Hart Publishing)

    32. Vaccari, E, Coordes, LN, Marique, Y, & Quinot, G Municipalities in Financial Distress: An Environmental, Social and Governance Critique (2025, forthcoming) Edward Elgar Publishing (co-author)

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