This is the third post in a series. The first two can be accessed here and here. Sentencing of criminal defendants requires an individualised analysis of the offender, the offence and the public interest, with a view to fixing an appropriate punishment.[1] It is for a judge to fix the sentence, but she must do […] Read more

This is the second post in a series. The introductory post is here. In Bureaucratic Justice: Managing Social Security Disability Claims,[1] Professor Jerry Mashaw set out three influential “models” of administrative justice. Further iterations have been suggested by Michael Adler[3] and Robert Kagan,[4] but for present purposes Mashaw’s models are sufficient. A bureaucratic rationality model […] Read more

I was at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference today at the University of Leeds, presenting a work in progress, “Artificial Administration: Administrative Justice in the Age of Machines”. In this post, I explain my interest in this important issue We live in the era of Big Data, a term that “triggers both utopian and dystopian […] Read more