Automated Decision-Making and Effective Remedies

The New Dynamics in the Protection of EU Fundamental Rights in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

Elgar Studies in European Law and Policy

Simona Demková, Assistant Professor of European Law, Europa Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands

This timely book explores the legal and practical challenges created by the increasingly automated decision-making procedures underpinning EU multilevel cooperation, for example, in the fields of border control and law enforcement. It argues that such procedures impact not only the rights to privacy and data protection, but fundamentally challenge the EU constitutional promise of effective judicial protection

‘Simona Demková’s monograph on the challenges to the right to an effective remedy posed by what she innovatively terms “semi-automated decision-making” in information cooperation in the EU AFSJ constitutes an important addition to the growing literature on EU-wide large-scale IT systems. Her administrative law lens through which information cooperation is studied is refreshing, thought provoking and original.’
– Niovi Vavoula, Queen Mary University of London, UK

‘By putting together two of the at present most interesting and, at the same time, most complex topics for EU Administrative Law scholarship, this book provides a clever and extremely welcome insight on European composite decision-making supported by algorithmically underpinned or otherwise automated decision-making support systems and on its negative impact on the effectiveness of judicial protection.’
– Diana-Urania Galetta, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

‘This book provides invaluable insights not only on the impact of technological progress on the protection of private persons but also on the difficulties of providing effective judicial protection in the face of the increasingly multi-jurisdictional and cross-border nature of administrative decision-making processes used for the implementation of EU law.’
——Mariolina Eliantonio,马斯特里赫特想ty, the Netherlands