In October 2023, DigiCon will host a Symposium on the topic ‘Safeguarding Good Administration in The Age of AI-Driven Administrations’. The Symposium is dedicated to the challenges for public administrations’ compliance with the requirements of good administration where they rely on artificial intelligence technologies.
EU law guarantees good administration as a fundamental right under Article 41 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CFR). The provision codifies the general principle of EU law developed in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). Essentially, good administration reflects the view that the EU is a community based on the rule of law, in which individuals are not subjected to arbitrary administrative decision-making. To benefit from good administration, individuals enjoy certain essential entitlements designed to ensure just and fair administrative procedures.
Article 41 CFR bundles together these rights and obligations, each of which faces distinct challenges in the age of AI-driven administrations. To address these, the Symposium aims to gather insights from an EU administrative law perspective, in search of a suitable framework for safeguarding the right to good administration in the AI context.
We invite expressions of interest to contribute to the Symposium. Contributions may cover the challenges of AI-driven administrations for specific rights guaranteed under Article 41(1) or for broader principles central to good administration, such as transparency and the right to an effective remedy. Possible topics include:
1. the right to have affairs handled impartially, fairly and within reasonable time,
2. the right to be heard,
3. the right to have access to one’s own file and its relationship with the more general right to access to documents and the right of access by data subjects,
4. the right to a reasoned decision,
5. transparency,
6. accountability, and
7. effective remedies.
Expressions of interest should be maximum 300 words and submitted to [email protected] by 15 June 2023. The Symposium editors – Simona Demkova, Melanie Fink, and Giulia Gentile – will select a small number of submissions to be worked out into full blog posts. The full blog posts should be between 1.500 and 2.000 words and will have to be submitted by 15 September 2023. The Symposium aims to launch in October 2023.
Contributing authors will also be invited to discuss the insights from the Symposium in an expert roundtable organised in the context of the Digital Constitutionalist Conference (DigiCon III) to be held in the end of 2023 at the EUI/Università degli studi di Firenze in Florence, Italy.
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