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25 Jud. Rev. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/judire25 and id is 1 raw text is: JUDICIAL REVIEW Routlede 2020, VOL. 25, NO. 1, 1 https://doi.org/10.1080/10854681.2020.1732743 Taylor & Francis Group Guest Editorial 1. Government bodies around the world, including in the UK, are increasingly reaching for digital technology. In some ways, there is little new about this. Governments are continually looking for new modes of governance. But, when such developments occur, they often challenge our exist- ing public law frameworks and demand new responses. The development of digital government in the UK has now reached this point and technology can no longer be seen as some distinct field of interest, but instead should be seen as part of the core business of all those concerned with public law and administrative justice. 2. The challenges that this shift presents for public lawyers are varied. They include addressing fun- damental questions about how uses of new digital technologies by government bodies interact with public law, human rights, and democracy on a macro level. But the challenges also include more technical, but no less important, questions about the application of legal principles and processes to new types of digital system. Effective work in this context also requires democratis- ing understanding of the mechanics of digital systems, rather than leaving them exclusively in the hands of technical experts. These challenges are likely to grow in both significance and pro- minence in the 2020s. 3. The contributions to this special issue of Judicial Review- by judges, academics, lawyers and civil society - engage with these challenges from a range of different perspectives.' Some articles examine the big picture themes of digital threats to constitutionalism, while others address more specific aspects of how particular uses of technology - such as automated decision- making - work and how they relate to existing principles of public law. These contributions provide useful analysis on their own terms but collectively they also, hopefully, represent the kind of diverse conversation necessary to make sure public law keeps pace at what is likely to be a period of rapid change. Joe Tomlinson University of York and Public Law Project 'Many of the contributions emerged from the Public Law Project's 2019 Annual Trends and Forecasts Conference, which addressed the theme of technology. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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