Alfred Charles Aman

Alfred C. Aman, Jr. Roscoe c. O’Byrne- Indiana university. USA

Professor Aman was dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law from 1991 until 2002. Previously, he served for nearly 15 years on the faculty at the Cornell Law School and was director of its International Legal Studies program from 1988-91. An internationally known scholar and lecturer, Professor Aman held a distinguished Fulbright chair and taught comparative administrative law at the University of Trento in Italy in March 1998. He has been a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Conference Center in Bellagio, as well as twice being a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. In 1998 he was named the Roscoe C. O'Byrne Professor of Law.

He is the author of seven books and numerous articles on administrative law, especially as it relates to the global economy. He is the faculty editor of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal he helped create in 1992.

Research stay at UC3M: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC LAW

Project:

Public –Private contracts and third party beneficiaries

My research will examine what I call the Human Side of Public-Private Contracts.  I will undertake a comparative case study that examines this kind of contractual deregulation and its effects on vulnerable populations in the U. S. and Spain. I am particularly interested in how third party beneficiaries of these public-private contracts are involved in the contracting processes, whether they have any opportunity to raise questions about the contractual provisions or, in some circumstances, seek judicial review. I am primarily interested in U.S.-Spain comparisons, but I hope to gain insights regarding Europe generally.  What are the procedural protections for those who are thought to be the beneficiaries of changes in the public/private sector? What reforms have been instituted at National or European levels and what others might be appropriate in the future?