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Sunny Kang, Algorithmic Accountability in Public Administration: The GDPR Paradox
For those of you who weren’t able to join us live, here is Sunny Kang’s presentation, “Algorithmic Accountability in Public Administration: The GDPR Paradox” from this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium. This was really excellent — and also features some technological bloopers at the beginning. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEnaHUODY38 Tomorrow, I welcome Teresa Scassa and, on […] Read more
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Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium with Teresa Scassa, Tuesday March 22 11.30: “Administrative Law and the Governance of Automated Decision-making”
I am looking forward to the next installation of this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium on Tuesday, March 22 at 11.30 eastern time. My guest will be my colleague, Professor Teresa Scassa, who will be discussing the governance of automated decision-making in Canada (see her recent paper). Register here or alternatively join the event […] Read more
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L’éthique des procédures contentieuses au Canada dans l’ère de la COVID-19, Section 2
I have posted a new paper to SSRN, reflecting on the lessons of the pandemic for the Canadian legal system. It is to appear in a French-language collection edited by Jean-Bernard Auby. You can download the full paper here. In Section 2 I describe the reactions of the Canadian legal system to the arrival of […] Read more
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Independence, Impartiality and Municipal Morality: Montgomery c. Commission municipale du Québec, 2022 QCCS 199
Sometimes the facts of a case are so egregious as to cry out for a remedy. A recent example is Montgomery c. Commission municipale du Québec, 2022 QCCS 199. It put me in mind of a classic Irish case, Kiely v. Minister for Social Welfare [1977] IR 267. First, Montgomery. M, formerly a journalist with […] Read more
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L’éthique des procédures contentieuses au Canada dans l’ère de la COVID-19
I have posted a new paper to SSRN, reflecting on the lessons of the pandemic for the Canadian legal system. It is to appear in a French-language collection edited by Jean-Bernard Auby. You can download the full paper here. In Section 1, I lay out the basic principles of administrative justice and judicial justice in […] Read more
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Symposium on Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World
I suppose having written a book entitled Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World (OUP, 2021), it is only appropriate to have a symposium on the book on a blog entitled Administrative Law in the Common Law World (a wonderful collective endeavour to which I am very proud to have offered the opening post). […] Read more
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Reminder: Sunny Kang, “Algorithmic Accountability in Public Administration: The GDPR Paradox”, Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium, Tuesday, March 8, 11.30
The next session in this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium, Artificial Administration: Automation, Digitization and Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration, takes place on Tuesday, March 8 at 11.30 eastern. Register here. Or join directly here. Dr. Sunny Kang (Visa) will be addressing “Algorithmic Accountability in Public Administration: The GDPR Paradox”. Here is her bio: […] Read more
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Janina Boughey, The Automated State: Implications, Challenges and Opportunities for Public Law
Paul Daly February 28, 2022
Here is the video from Dr. Janina Boughey’s presentation at this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVvTRR6WOs The Colloquium continues next week, with Dr. Sunny Kang. You can register here. Read more
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Rabinder Singh, The Unity of Law
Paul Daly February 25, 2022
Hart Publishing is kindly offering a discount for Administrative Law Matters readers on Rabinder Singh, The Unity of Law. Lord Justice Singh is a senior member of the British judiciary and was, prior to his appointment to the bench, a leading barrister with a broad practice in public and commercial law (one of the last […] Read more
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The Justification for Declaring a “Public Order Emergency”
Paul Daly February 18, 2022
Several of the documents relied upon by the federal government to justify its declaration this week of a “public order emergency” under the Emergencies Act are now in the public domain via journalists from various organizations [EDIT: as Lyle Skinner points out to me, the documents are in the public domain by virtue of having […] Read more
