介绍:
I. Introduction
The University of Baltimore Journal of Land and Development hosted a symposium on Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) and their impact on economic development and the rule of law. The main topics of the symposium were what is a P3, the key elements of P3 legislation both internationally and nationally, the historical development of P3s, and with the foregoing in mind what is the role for attorneys during the lifecycle of any P3? The following is an edited transcript of symposium and the discussion that followed.
II. Welcome
MICHAEL FARRELL: Good Evening. Welcome to the University of Baltimore Journal of Land and Development Symposium on Public and Private Partnerships. I’m Michael Farrell. I’m the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Land and Development. This past summer the Journal set out to find an engaging, novel, and thought-provoking topic for its symposium. While searching for such a topic, the editorial board of the Journal was guided by the reverberations of current events in Maryland, like the development of the Red and Purple lines and the State Center project. These events, and the interest that was generated by them, both in the community and the legal field, led the board to focus on public-private partnerships as a topic for this symposium. What we found was an incredibly complex, nuanced, interesting, and in some instances, a very divisive topic. We felt that with the Journal’s mission and academic purview we could foster an intriguing *104 and productive discussion about public-private partnerships, their impact on economic development, and the law.
This brings us to today and why we are here in the moot court room of the University of Baltimore. Before we introduce the distinguished panel of speakers who were gracious enough to come down and speak with us today. I would like to thank a few people. First off, the dean of the law school Dean Ron Weich for supporting our efforts to host the symposium this year. And I’d like for him to come up to say a few words.
DEAN RONALD WEICH: Well, thanks Mike. And welcome all to the University of Baltimore School of Law. Many of you are students or professors here so no need to welcome you. But those of you who are visitors, I hope that you will take time while you are here to take a look at our beautiful building the John and Frances Angelos Law Center. We are very proud of it. Very proud of the fact that it is such an environmentally sound building, very much in keeping with the themes that the Journal of Land of Development has often explored. We’re very proud of the Journal and the work that it does. I’d like to congratulate Mike Farrell, Alex Gereldo, and the other editors and officers of the Journal for its hard work this year. Not just in bringing this symposium together but in publishing the journal and doing all that they do to keep this activity of the law school very strong. I’d like to thank and congratulate Professor Audrey McFarlane, the faculty advisor to this journal. And if you all permit me a moment to congratulate Audrey as well because this Sunday she will receive the law school’s annual award for outstanding teaching by a full-time faculty member. And I’d also like to thank our distinguished panelists. It seems like this is going to be a very substantive and important discussion about the topic at hand. I commend you all for spending your time here to learn and explore this very important issue. Thank you very much and welcome.
MICHAEL FARRELL: Thank you Dean. I’d also like to thank Dean Shultz for her guidance and support when we first brought the idea of a symposium on public-private partnerships. I want to thank the Journal’s faculty advisor Professor Audrey McFarlane for continuingly challenging us so that we could find a topic and host a symposium that would foster legal scholarship on public-private partnerships. Furthermore, the Journal is indebted to Professor Scott Walchak for not only contributing to the Journal but also facilitating the procurement of the distinguished panel speakers that are assembled for the symposium. Lastly, and as a means of introduction, I would like to thank Alex Geraldo the Journal symposium editor. Alex has devoted substantial portion of his time this year to bringing about the symposium from the moment we first started talking about it in May of 2014. Alex’s tireless efforts, sometimes in the face of great obstacles, are truly the reason that there is a symposium today. So without further *105 ado, I would like to turn it over to Alex Geraldo for the introduction of the panel.
大家还在听
