Daniel Schoeni

Mr. Schoeni has been an Air Force judge advocate since 2004. Prior to the military, he clerked for Justice Jerry Larson of the Iowa Supreme Court. He started in government procurement studying at the University of Nottingham’s LLM program in 2009.  He was the first American to graduate from the program. The year after, he was selected for the JAG Corps’s funded LLM program at GW Law.  He has since worked in various government procurement positions at Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts; Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; and Space Systems Command at Los Angeles AFB, California.  

Since joining the faculty in 2022, he has taught the two core courses in GW Law’s Government Procurement Law Program’s curriculum, Formation of Government Contracts and Performance of Government Contracts.  Previously, he taught a course on EU defense procurement law at King’s College London.  And he has been a regular adjunct with the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies since 2012, lecturing around the world and especially in Latin America on a range of subjects, including trial advocacy, military justice, international humanitarian law, and anticorruption in public procurement.

His scholarship has spanned defense procurement, offsets, suspensions and debarments, cybersecurity, public-private partnerships, anticorruption, trade law, innovation, and comparative public procurement law.  His work has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Administrative Law Review, Journal of National Security Law & Policy (Georgetown), Public Contract Law Journal, Public Procurement Law Review (UK), and Upphandlingsrätt Tidskrift (Sweden). He coedited an essay collection with Tobias Vestner published by Oxford University Press, Ethical Dilemmas in the Global Defense Industry, and he has contributed chapters to several other volumes. His writings have also won several awards, most notably 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.

Mr. Schoeni serves on the editorial boards of the Air Force Law Review, JAG Reporter, Journal of Contract Management, and Upphandlingsrätt Tidskrift and he has several times served as guest editor for the Public Procurement Law Review.  He is a member of the ABA’s Public Contract Law Section, the Public Procurement Research Group (UK), and Contrats Publics dans la Globalisation Juridique (France).

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