Christina D. Tvarnø

Professor with special responsibilities , Ph.D.
Christina D. Tvarnø

Law Department

Howitzvej 13, 3rd floor
DK-2000 Frederiksberg

Tel.: +45 3815 2623
Fax:+45 3815 2610
E-mail: cdt.jur@cbs.dk

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My main research area is private partnering contracts in the Danish construction industry and Danish contract law . I define the partnering contract as a contract based on trust, corporation, open books, joint utility and incentives between the parties, e.g. the building owner, the architect, the engineer and the constructor. Partnering is a different type of contract compared to the traditional Danish construction contracts based on the contract law in general. I have focused my research on the economic influence on the Danish partnering contract, e.g. strategic alliances, optimal contracts, relational norms and social contracts and I have investigated the legal effects of contracting on those economic terms. Also I have investigated the difference between public private partnering contracts and the private financed PPP contract, the effect from the EC-procurement rules, the procedure competitive dialogue and COM (2004) 327. ( The Danish Model) I have also an interest in the research area of harmonisation of European contract law,comparative law and economics and legal theory.

Primary research areas

Partnering and strategic alliances
Contract law: Danish contract law, EU contract law and international law
EU law, harmonisation of contract law in the EU in a comparative law and economic perspective
Law and economics: The combination of comparative law and economic models
Legal theory

Selected publications

Christina D. Tvarnø: Law and Regulatory Aspects of Public-Private Partnerships: Contract Law and Public Procurement Law in International Handbook on Public-Private Partnerships. ed. Carsten Greve, Graeme Hodge and Anthony Boardman. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010
Christina D. Tvarnø:The legal rules regarding PPP in an economic perspective(pdf). Paper submitted to the 2nd International Public Procurement Forum (IPPF2010) at CUFE, Beijing, October 2010
Christina D. Tvarnø (ed.), PPP-book: PPP - An international analysis in a legal and economic perspective (pdf)
Christina D. Tvarnø: PPP's in the straitjacket of the EU public procurement rules (pdf). Paper submitted to Global Revolution IV, the 4th international conference on public procurement in Nottingham 2010
Christina D. Tvarnø: Does EU law prevent negotiation (pdf). Conference paper submitted to the International negotiation conference at CBS 8.+ 9. April 2010.
Christina D. Tvarnø, Does the Danish Interpretation of EC Public Procurement Law Prevent PPP? In Public Procurement Law Review, Issue 2, 2010.
A Critique of the Commission’s Interpretative Communication on Institutionalised Public-Private Partnerships. Public Procurement Law Review, Issue 1, 2009, NA 11-23.
Christina D. Tvarnø: Public-Private Partnerships from a Danish perspective, Public Procurement Law Review, 3, 2006, NA98 f.
Christina D. Tvarnø: PPP and Public Service Broadcasting, Julebog 2005, s. 181-201
Christina D. Tvarnø: Public private partnership in the European Union, The New EU Public Procurement Directives by Ruth Nielsen and Steen Treumer (Ed.), s. 183-194
Recent case law/Arrêts récents/Aktuelle Gerichtsenentscheidungen in European Review of Private Law/Revue européenne de droit privé/Europäisher Zeitschrift für Privatrecht
Christina D. Tvarnø: When Contract law has to be harmonised within the EU . Statement to the European Commission (2001) 398.