Welcome to the ReaLaw Blog Digital Corner! These days, it is hard to find any aspect of EU administrative law that has not been infused with an element of digitalisation. Sometimes, digitalisation is a core material issue, for example with EU Big Tech regulation such as the AI Act, the GDPR, and the Digital Omnibus. Frequently, digitalisation is inherent to the process of legislative drafting, such as through automated translation or digital procedures for transparency or consultation. And most of all, digital elements pervade specific procedures in different fields of administrative law from migration to environmental law to competition, affecting public servants, citizens, and decision-making processes at every turn.
Technological changes affect the nature of information, governments, and citizens in turn, which means that open government laws, which frame information provision within this relationship, must respond. For an effective response, open government laws must differentiate between different goals of information provision, types of information, types of government and types of citizens.
The Digital Corner invites contributions which tackle any of these digitally pervasive elements within EU administrative law, whether it’s a specific case study of how digitalisation affects administrative law in a particular field or a fundamental discussion of a key regulation of the Digital acquis. The Corner will also feature book reviews on the amassing amazing library on digitalisation within EU administrative law, as well as case notes on digitalisation before the courts, either in specific EU countries or from the increasing case law on digitalisation by the CJEU. The Digital Corner seeks to showcase the wide variety of research in digitalisation in EU administrative law and therefore invites a wide variety of voices from our community. Early-career researchers are especially encouraged to contribute. As digitalisation is a frequently interdisciplinary field, inter- or multidisciplinary contributions are also very welcome.
For submission or any potential questions, please reach out to Annemarie Balvert.
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Annemarie Balvert teaches administrative law, digitalisation and legal skills at the University of Amsterdam. She studies the intersection between administrative law, technology, and information, with a focus on interdisciplinary research methods. Her PhD discussed how technological developments challenge open government laws’ effectiveness in regulating information provision in the relationship between government and citizens. Her current research projects involve the impact of automated translation on EU legislation and the effectiveness and transparency of archive legislation in a situation of information overload.