On 1st September 2017 IEL Director Professor Martin Trybus delivered a paper with the title “El Derecho de la Unión Europea y la contratación publica” at the XVIII Jorrnadas Internacionales de Derecho Administrativo at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá, which was also published in Alberto Montaña Plata and Jorge Iván Rincón Córdoba (eds.) Contratos Públicos: Problemas, Perspectivas y Prospectivas – XVIII Jorrnadas Internacionales de Derecho Administrativo (Universidad Externado de Colombia: Bogotá, 2017) 743-781. An English version is available as IEL Working Paper 2017-5.
Professor Trybus was one of several guest speakers from outside Colombia which also included Eberhard Schmidt-Assmann (University of Heidelberg), Alejandro Vergara Blanco (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Joaquín Tornos Mas (University of Barcelona); Stéphane Braconnier (University of Panthéon-Assas París), and Ezequiel Cassagne (University of Buenos Aires).