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17 12, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: The role of soft law in the digital state: Supporting or eroding public values?

By Malavika Raghavan| 2025-01-16T13:39:23+00:00 December 17th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: automated state, bureaucracy, DigiPublicValues, digital, proceduralism, public values, socio-technical, soft law|0 Comments

Post 9 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Malavika Raghavan The role of soft law in the digital state: Supporting or eroding public values? Malavika Raghavan Embedding digital technologies into public service provision raises many questions for citizens in a “digital” state. What do we do when the computer [...]

17 12, 2024

Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law: The Role of Citizens in Enforcing the Rule of Law

By Jaroslaw Kantorowicz,| 2024-12-17T13:55:46+00:00 December 17th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law|Tags: citizens, definition, Elections, empirical, enforcement, Germany, Poland, rule of law|0 Comments

This blog is post 3 in the SLSA blog series ‘Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law’, which takes a socio-legal and citizen-focussed approach to the rule of law, exploring its social foundations, innovative methods, and perspectives from Hungary, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and Serbia. The series is guest edited by Dr Erin Jackson, postdoctoral researcher at [...]

12 12, 2024

The Human Side of Health Apps: Why User Experience Matters

By Lyla Latif| 2024-12-12T12:42:28+00:00 December 12th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts|Tags: Africa, apps, digitalisation, right to health, technology|0 Comments

By Lyla Latif, Lai’Latif & Co Advocates Introduction Mobile health apps have become integral to healthcare across Africa. With smartphone penetration over 50% in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, health apps have seen significant adoption among urban, young, and middle-class populations. The apps extend beyond medical advice, offering insurance coverage, prescription ordering, and medication delivery through [...]

10 12, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: Proportionality

By Natalia Menéndez González and Spyros Syrrakos| 2024-12-10T17:11:12+00:00 December 10th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: algorithmic due process, delegation of state functions, economic considerations, privatised digital systems, proportionality, public values|0 Comments

Post 6 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Natalia Menéndez González and Spyros Syrrakos Proportionality successfully dominates modern democratic constitutionalism. We may live in an analogue ‘age of proportionality’, however, the unprecedented digital transformation upends its foundations, rendering the ‘private’ and ‘public’ boundaries porous. Primarily, private platforms assume a quasi-regulatory [...]

10 12, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: Public Services Lost in Digitalisation: Re-positioning Accountability

By Anna Morandini and Deirdre Curtin| 2024-12-10T17:12:46+00:00 December 10th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: good governance, privatised digital systems, public accountability, public values, transparency|0 Comments

Post 5 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Deirdre Curtin and Anna Morandini Digitalisation intensifies public-private cooperation in a manner that is often at the expense of core public values. From local schools to federal ministries, public entities enlist private companies to engage in the carrying out of their public [...]

10 12, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law: How does the rule of law look in Hungarian public thinking? Major patterns in defining the rule of law in Hungary

By Balázs Fekete| 2024-12-10T15:44:56+00:00 December 10th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law|Tags: empirical, Hungary, public discourse, public thinking, rule of law|0 Comments

This blog is post 2 of the SLSA blog series ‘Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law’, which takes a socio-legal and citizen-focussed approach to the rule of law, exploring its social foundations, innovative methods, and perspectives from Hungary, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and Serbia. The series is guest edited by Dr Erin Jackson, postdoctoral [...]

26 11, 2024

ICPR Guest Edited Blog 5: Lived Experiences of the Law: Collecting stories about encounters with the law

By Gill Hunter, Amy Kirby, NIcola Campbell and Zahra Wynne| 2024-11-26T17:22:26+00:00 November 26th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Guest Series, previous series|Tags: criminal courts, empirical research, family courts, ICPR, legal processes, lived experience|0 Comments

By Gill Hunter, Amy Kirby, Nicola Campbell and Zahra Wynne In earlier blogs for this series, we have introduced our project – lived experience of the law, funded by the Nuffield Foundation – and outlined its aim to explore people’s experiences of the family and criminal courts in the context of their wider encounters with [...]

26 11, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: The Public Law Duck Test or ‘Pubcliness’: why are we so obsessed with Public Law in Law & Tech?

By Francisco de Abreu Duarte| 2024-11-26T08:41:44+00:00 November 26th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: automated state, law and tech, Pubcliness, public interest, Public Law Duck, public values|0 Comments

Post 4 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Francisco de Abreu Duarte We all know the famous duck test scenario. Although it often leads to absurd results, as Monty Python superbly demonstrated, it is a reasonable and very human reasoning to make: if something acts, sounds, and looks like something [...]

26 11, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: Participation in Privatised Digital Systems

By Marco Almada and Estela Lopes| 2024-11-26T08:43:29+00:00 November 26th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: automated state, DigiPublicValues, participation, public values, public-in-loop|0 Comments

Post 3 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Marco Almada and Estela Lopes In modern democracies, citizen participation is not limited to elections. Lawmakers and administrators are often expected—and at times obliged—to involve citizen perspectives in their work. For example, Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union obliges the [...]

26 11, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law

By Marc Hertogh| 2024-12-03T08:59:58+00:00 November 26th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law|Tags: empirical, legal foundations, normative, rule of law, social foundations|0 Comments

This blog is post 1 of the SLSA blog series ‘Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law’, which takes a socio-legal and citizen-focussed approach to the rule of law, exploring its social foundations, innovative methods, and perspectives from Hungary, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and Serbia. The series is guest edited by Dr Erin Jackson, postdoctoral [...]