WASHINGTON (February 6, 2025)- Bloomberg reported that the “White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest” . Musk has been dubbed a “special government employee” as written by Forbes and will oversee the Department of Government Efficiency whose work and leader has become involved in a host of other government agencies this week.
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Jessica Tillipman, Associate Dean for Government Procurement Law Studies and Government Contracts Advisory Council Professorial Lecturer in Government Contracts Law, Practice & Policy at the George Washington University Law School. Tillipman is an expert in integrity, compliance and emerging technology issues in government procurement law. She also specializes in Anti-Corruption & Compliance, anti-corruption, ethics, and compliance issues in government procurement, government contracts and white collar criminal defense.
Tillipman is the author of Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption, the only guide to US procurement ethics and integrity. This matter is directly in her wheelhouse of expertise.
Laura Dickinson, the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Dickinson is an expert on national security, human rights, the law of armed conflict, and foreign affairs privatization.
Dickinson is the author of Outsourcing War and Peace which examines the increasing outsourcing of military and security functions, considers the impact of this trend on core public values, and outlines mechanisms for protecting these values in an era of privatization.
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