Questioning the "smartness" of smart governments: a call for intelligent, but not all-knowing, governments

Abstract

"Smart" has become a fashion trend buzzword which has been adopted by governments in pursuit of objectivity and rationality. This pursuit of "smartness" has posed new constitutional and political challenges that need to be addressed. This lecture reflects on the question "smartness to whom?" and whether governments can, and should, be smart at all.

Speakers

• Paul De Hert is a professor of law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is the Director of the research group on Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism (FRC) and a senior member of the research group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS). Paul De Hert is also associated-professor Law and Technology at the Tilburg Institute for Law and Technology (TILT).
• Barbara Lazarotto is a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Action Fellow at Horizon 2020 project LeADS  at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Discussant

Jean-Bernard AUBY is an Emeritus Professor of Public Law, Sciences Po Paris – Former Director of “Mutations de l’Action Publique et du Droit Public” («Changes in Governance and Public Law»), Former Deputy Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law.

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This hybrid event is organized in the context of the University of Luxembourg’s INDIGO (INformation in the EU’s DIgitalised GOvernance) project under the direction of Professor Herwig Hofmann, co-financed by the FNR under the Horizon 2020 NORFACE programme.