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8 01, 2025

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: Looking back to look ahead: Future research to preserve public values in the Automated State

Post 10 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Malavika Raghavan, Alexandra Sinclair, Giulia Gentile and Orla Lynskey This blog series examined the insights emerging from the CIVICA-funded DigiPublicValues project on the implications for public values when digital systems provided by private operators become embedded within the State. Key values of publicness, proportionality, [...]

17 12, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in the Automated State: The Future of Digital Infrastructure: A PPP Perspective

Post 8 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Jessica Breaugh and Gerhard Hammerschmid. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have emerged as a prominent strategy for governments to deliver public services and infrastructure, particularly in the realm of digitalization. By combining the resources and expertise of both public and private sectors, PPPs aim to [...]

17 12, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in the Automated State: Public Procurement, Digitalisation, and the Values Challenges

Post 7 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Albert Sanchez-Graells, Professor of Economic Law, University of Bristol Law School The public sector is in a quickly accelerating process of digitalisation. The mainstreaming of data-driven technologies such as artificial intelligence (Yeung, 2022), and ever increasing financial pressures pushing public authorities to chase [...]

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?

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 [...]

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?

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

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 [...]

12 11, 2024

Guest Blog Series: Preserving Public Values in The Automated State

Introduction to the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Orla Lynskey, UCL Laws and the College of Europe, Bruges and Giulia Gentile, Essex Law School. As automated technologies such as artificial intelligence capture the imagination of the public, States have a renewed impetus to avail of the opportunities these technologies offer, including [...]

12 11, 2024

Guest Blog Series on Preserving Public Values in The Automated State: Digital Constitutionalism: What is it, what is at stake, and how is the current research distinct

Post 2 in the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Giovanni De Gregorio, PLMJ Chair in Law and Technology, Católica Global School of Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon and Oreste Pollicino, Full Professor of Constitutional Law, Bocconi University, Milan. The spread of digital technologies has profoundly affected society, fundamentally altering how people live, work, [...]