BlueLaw International LLP is a service-disabled, veteran-owned company that offers a wide range of services including global expert consultants, support personnel, and attorneys. BLI’s expert personnel have a unique blend of cross-disciplinary education, training, and real world experience. With an emphasis on field experience, operational knowledge, and real world problem-solving skills, BLI personnel provide specialized skills to enhance interdisciplinary teams, provide hard to find skills, and perform complex planning and tasks.
They are a small, women-owned international development firm dedicated to the promotion of good governance, the rule of law, human security, and human rights around the world.
They have worked with the US Government, foreign governments, and local and international organizations since 2004.
PRACTICES
BlueLaw International LLP provides a wide range of services in several practice areas:
HUMAN RIGHTS AND DISABILITY INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
They strengthen human rights institutions and support legal reform that helps to ensure full access to justice for groups that are often excluded, such as women, children, and persons with disabilities.
BlueLaw’s Human Rights and Disability Inclusive Development practice has designed and implemented human rights and inclusive development projects in more than twenty-five countries worldwide. They work to build and strengthen national human rights institutions, advance human rights law, disability law and policy reform, and lead participatory human rights education on a range of human rights treaties such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
With the American University Center for Global Peace in Iraq, BlueLaw has worked with Iraqi officials and NGOs – including leading judges, members of parliament, the Human Rights Minister and her staff, and leading human rights advocates – on the establishment of an Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights. Under the same grant, they worked directly with the Iraqi human rights committee within the parliament on reviewing and revising draft human rights legislation.
BlueLaw has worked to ensure that justice sector institutions are accessible to all. Under USAID’s Elections and Political Processes (EPP) IQC and several small grants, BlueLaw has performed assessments on election access for persons with disabilities (Indonesia, Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Liberia, Armenia), provided training to election commissions on legal reforms and election access strategies to facilitate better access consistent with international standards (Liberia, Armenia, Morocco) and developed innovative materials for use in voter education programming for marginalized groups (Iraq, Morocco, Egypt).
SECURITY AND JUSTICE
BlueLaw trains and advises members of the civilian justice system — police, courts, and judicial security service — on effective partnerships for improved public safety.
Their significant experience in the U.S. justice systems and military provides unique perspective on the shifting challenges of pursuing stability, justice, and security in developing countries. Drawing on their knowledge and experience in responsive government, equitable and organized administration of justice, and professional preparation and supervision of military and law enforcement personnel, they strengthen crucial public services relating to public safety. Their expertise encompasses:
Promoting the rule of law — Understanding the conceptual cornerstones of the rule of law, not of individuals and elites, they help build the systems, institutions, and skills necessary to secure the basic processes of justice in post-conflict states as well as more expansive management and coordinated arrangements in other developing countries. Their expertise and programmatic experience includes: administrative legal reform, strengthening the formal judicial and court institutions, and improving legal systems that deliver justice to juveniles and vulnerable groups.
Strengthening public administration — Coming from the many points of the public compass as they do, they build from the experience of the various public administrative systems they used to lead and work within. Public administration is more than training or concepts, it is about the systems, the administrative coordination, and the strategic planning necessary to achieve effective service delivery to and on behalf of citizens.
Security sector reform — they regularly provide expertise in security and stabilization projects for USAID and the Department of State. Their personnel combines best practices from other disciplines to enhance law enforcement effectiveness and community responsiveness They develop tools and resources for this growing field with a focus on specific problems, such as juvenile justice, or on broad systems integration, such as within the maritime sector.
ACQUISITION AND GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT
BlueLaw advises government and commercial customers in government procurement, procurement ethics, and associated regulatory compliance matters.
For four years, BlueLaw served as in-house consultants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s prestigious and internationally renowned Lincoln Laboratories, one of the premier applied research laboratories in the world that carries out extensive research programs on behalf of the Department of Defense and other government entities. In this capacity, they have advised MIT on Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements, control of international visitors and foreign contacts, procurement integrity and employee ethics, Arms Export Control Act compliance, and a broad spectrum of other regulatory matters.
BlueLaw is one of the leading development firms in the area of government procurement reform and anticorruption. From 2006-2008, they implemented an innovative Millennium Challenge Corporation project helping Albania prepare for European Union and NATO accession by building an open, transparent and resilient government procurement system. This project supported Albania’s first large e-procurement, successfully resulting in the purchase of imported electricity for the entire nation for 2008. The Prime Minister was so pleased with this program that, after a tragic explosion at a munitions recycling factory caused in large part by a “crony contract” award, he immediately ordered all previously excluded Ministry of Defense procurements to be tendered using the new e-procurement system. In addition, they assisted in providing the legislative and enforcement infrastructure by drafting e-procurement and digital signature laws for Albania and establishing and training the Public Procurement Ombudsman’s Office to provide an inspector general capacity for the new Public Procurement Authority.
BlueLaw International has also provided procurement and compliance consulting services to several large defense contractors and other commercial clients.
History:
BlueLaw International LLP has been offering subject matter expertise and support services to Government customers since 2004. They have worked in more than thirty-five countries with their projects supporting the development goals of governments, organizations, and communities across five continents.
They have also transformed over the years: they have been through a merger; they have progressed from being a 100% sub-contract dependent small business to a stable small business with its own prime contracts; and they have added new capabilities and services to our portfolio catering to the evolving needs of our customers. Our capacity to adapt to the dynamic nature of our business environment has resulted in the improvement of our substantive technical capabilities, financial system and internal controls, project management, and the overall quality and reliability of the services they deliver to our clients.
Mission: Our mission is to foster transparent and responsible government systems, engaged civil societies that contribute to nation building, and prosperous and stable communities that are inclusive through the professionalization of national security, judiciary and law enforcement systems.
