Fernando Mendoza López

Welcome! I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. My research focuses on the use of government contracting as a tool for conducting social policy. My teaching interests are in Contracts, Government Contracts, Antitrust, Law and Economics, and International Business Transactions.

Previously, I served as the Director of Economic Studies at the Public Procurement Policy Unit within Mexico's Ministry of Public Administration. In that role, I led the design and implementation of Mexico's first framework agreements, achieving estimated savings of over 20 billion MXN (~1 bn USD). 

Before joining Pace I earned my J.D./Ph.D. in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt University, a M.A. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, a M.A. in International Trade and Finance at Yonsei University's Graduate School of International Studies, and a B.A. in Economics from Tec de Monterrey (ITESM), Campus Monterrey. 

My current research focuses on affirmative action in government contracting, efficiency of procurement procedures, procurement centralization, and sustainable procurement more generally.

• "Pricing Lies: Government Contracts and the False Claims Act," Marquette Law Review. (forthcoming 2026).

• "Centralized Procurement: Use of Framework Agreements in Mexico," Contemporary Economic Policy, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12693.  

• “Socioeconomic Policies in Public Procurement: What Should We be Asking of Public Procurement Systems,” with Joni Hersch, University of Memphis Law Review 52, 2022. https://www.memphis.edu/law/documents/mendoza-lopez-hersch.pdf. 

• “Estimating Years of Education Using the Current Population Survey after 2014,” with Joni Hersch and Jennifer Bennett Shinall, Economics Letters 189, April 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109058.

• "Playing it Safe or Playing Favorites? Miller Act Bonds and the Cost of Exclusion," July 2025. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qfAKKKb8cI2AX17SHdfPfNGqHYGLV3zn/view?usp=share_link 

• Affirmative Action in Government Contracting, with Joni Hersch, 2023.