Combatting the Code - Regulating Automated Government Decision-Making in Comparative Context

"This book provides reform proposals for regulators and policymakers seeking to implement automated government decision-making. It furnishes insights for civil society organizations seeking to mount legal challenges to automated decisions and will interest scholars and students of public law, technology, and public administration"--

List of contents

Part I. Automation and the Administrative State: 1. Technology and public law; 2. Automation, surveillance and the administrative state; Part II. Legal Controls: 3. Legal frameworks; 4. Rationality; 5. Anti-discrimination; 6. Public sector privacy and data protection; 7. Freedom of information; Part III. Political and Managerial Controls: Chapter 8. Scrutiny and auditing; 9. Toward a framework for technological governance; 10. Conclusion.

About the author

Yee-Fui Ng is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law, Monash University where she researches in the area of public law and politics. Ng is the author of The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System (2018) and Ministerial Advisers in Australia: The Modern Legal Context (2016), which was a finalist of the Holt Prize.

Summary

This book provides reform proposals for regulators and policymakers seeking to implement automated government decision-making. It furnishes insights for civil society organizations seeking to mount legal challenges to automated decisions and will interest scholars and students of public law, technology, and public administration.

Product details

• Authors: Yee-Fui Ng, Yee-Fui (Monash University Ng, Ng Yee-Fui
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2025
• EAN: 9781009599214
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0959921-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; LAW / General, comparative law, Jurisprudence & general issues, Legal aspects of IT, Constitutional & administrative law, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Legal Technology, Administrative jurisdiction and public administration