Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law: Legal Perspectives, Governance and Administrative Justice

Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law: Legal Perspectives, Governance and Administrative Justice investigates the profound constitutional rupture occurring as the modern administrative state transitions toward automated decision-making. The authors argue that this shift moves power from human-mediated judgment to the asynchronous execution of code, creating a Silicon Gavel where an algorithmic bureaucracy enforces a Shadow Rulebook of hidden regulations. This volume challenges the Human-in-the-Loop mythology, arguing that procedural safeguards are often nullified by automation bias. It explores critical concepts such as the Liability Vacuum, the fossilization of discretion, and the digitization of historical injustice. Proposing robust new institutional architectures—including Algorithmic Due Process, Clean Data Mandates, and specialized AI Ombudsmen”—the work advocates for a doctrine of technological subservience, asserting that justice must remain a human deliberative process rather than a computed statistical output.