Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County
George R. La Noue is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He has served as a trial expert in twenty cases involving public procurement preferences. For thirty years, he was Director of the Project on Civil Rights and Public Contracts at UMBC which recently contributed 289 public contracting disparity studies to the Library of Congress. He has been a consultant to nine governments and trial expert in thirty cases where the validity of disparity studies was at issue.
Prof. La Noue can be reached by email at [email protected].
John Sullivan has specialized in disparity studies since 1990. In that time he has served as expert witness in six challenges to racial preference programs in public contracting. He has published widely on disparity studies in law and public policy journals and in the Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. He testified before a Congressional subcommittee on the only federal government-wide disparity study.
The Race Card in ARPA’s Food Supply Deck
George R. La Noue
It is an old aphorism that a prudent person should not watch the making of...
Anecdotes as Evidence: Proving Public Contracting Discrimination in a Strict Scrutiny World
John Sullivan
Note from the Editor: This article is about the use of anecdotal evidence to justify...
Pruning the Overgrowth of Government Contracting Preferences
George Noue
The policy of creating preferences for businesses owned at least fifty-one percent by members of...