Descrizione

Diana-Urania Galetta is a Full professor of Administrative law and EU Administrative law at the Law Faculty of the University of Milan (Italy). She is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Public Administration (CERIDAP) and the Chief Editor of the CERIDAP Law Journal (https://ceridap.eu). She has served as a visiting professor at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (F), Toulouse 1 Capitole (F), Sydney (AU), Lisbon (P), Konstanz (D), and Huelva (E), and in 2022, she won an International Visiting Professorship (Excellence Initiative) at the University of Heidelberg (D).

An Italian native speaker, she speaks and publishes in five different languages and has more than 200 publications (books and papers) on administrative law in Italy and the EU, as well as comparative administrative law. She has written extensively over the last decade about the impact of ICT on Public Administration and its activities.

Full CV and list of publications at:

https://work.unimi.it/chiedove/cv/ENG/dianaurania_galetta.pdf

This book is about public administration’s decision-making (and policy development activity) in the context of an increasingly ICT-driven environment. Already today, AI systems can analyse data more accurately than humans and help them examine prior decisions. However, Artificial Intelligence lacks the imaginative component needed to invent the future (public policy development) and imagine the future (single-case decision-making), which is so far solely a human brain prerogative and a result of its ability to infer from seemingly unrelated situations and events. Single-case decision-making requires adapting a general and abstract rule to a specific scenario; therefore, even technical knowledge is insufficient. Moreover, despite the diversity of ADM technology and the rapid pace of technological development, basic legal requirements for public decision-making must remain unchanged and fixed in principles of the rule of law and good administration.