Jaroslaw Kola

Practice Areas

Counsel at WKB Lawyers and a member of the Public Procurement Law team. Specialises in public procurement law, electromobility, and EU funds, he advises both economic operators and contracting authorities on all matters relating to public contract award procedures, issues legal opinions and analysis, including for law-making purposes. Jarosław holds a PhD in law based on the doctoral thesis titled "The contracting authority’s interest in Polish public procurement law." The dissertation was awarded the 2nd prize in the competition for the best PhD and master theses on commercial and economic legislation, organized by Polish Economic Publishers and the Journal of Business Law. Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Principal Investigator of research projects conducted in prominent foreign research centers, including Paris, Oxford, Nottingham, Cape Town, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Author of numerous publications in the field of public procurement law and electromobility.

Professional Memberships

The Public Procurement Law Association.

Publications

"Cohesion of action in the pursuit of development policy on the example of public investment in the area of electromobility" Electromobility as a megatrend of contemporary economy" , Warsaw 2021, pp. 123-142.

"The ‘local content’ concept in public procurement: global trends in the development of public procurement law on the example of the USA, South Africa and Poland", pp. 85-105

"El concepto de “local content” en el sistema de contratación pública", pp. 145-162.

"Public procurement as a tool of conducting development policy in emerging markets: The example of Poland"-. Quinot, S. Williams-Elegbe , Public Procurement Regulation in Africa: Development in Uncertain Times, Durban – Johannesburg – Cape Town 2020, pp. 249-269.