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Luke R.A. Butler is Professor of Public Procurement Law & Regulation, Director, Executive Programme in Public Procurement Law & Policy, and Head of the UK Procurement Unit, University of Nottingham. Luke is also joint General Editor of the Public Procurement Law Review, a member of the Procurement Lawyers’ Association, and a non-practising Barrister (Middle Temple). Luke is an expert in defence and security procurement regulation. He is the author of Transatlantic Defence Procurement (CUP 2017) and is an authority on defence contract pricing regulation. Luke regularly acts as a consultant to Ministries of Defence and international organisations and offers bespoke training to international law firms.
Luke has previously guest lectured at the UK Defence Academy, George Washington University and on the Defence Contracting Law course, University of Adelaide. He also has expertise in public procurement regulation more widely, having most recently co-authored a controversial monograph on The Marketisation of Framework Agreements in the UK (Hart 2024).