{"id":15498,"date":"2024-09-02T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-en\/?post_type=events&#038;p=15498"},"modified":"2024-09-02T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T13:52:09","slug":"indigo-lecture-questioning-the-smartness-of-smart-governments","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-en\/events\/indigo-lecture-questioning-the-smartness-of-smart-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"INDIGO Lecture, Questioning the &#8220;smartness&#8221; of smart governments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<p>\u201cSmart\u201d has become a fashion trend buzzword which has been adopted by governments in pursuit of objectivity and rationality. This pursuit of \u201csmartness\u201d has posed new constitutional and political challenges that need to be addressed. This lecture reflects on the question \u201csmartness to whom?\u201d and whether governments can, and should, be smart at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"speakers\"\n    >\nSpeakers<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paul De Hert<\/strong>&nbsp;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 &amp; Society (LSTS). Paul De Hert is also associated-professor Law and Technology at the Tilburg Institute for Law and Technology (TILT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Barbara Lazarotto<\/strong>\u00a0is a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Action Fellow at Horizon 2020 project LeADS at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Vrije Universiteit Brussel.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-spacer is-spacer-size-sm\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"discussant\"\n    >\nDiscussant<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jean-Bernard AUBY<\/strong>\u00a0is an Emeritus Professor of Public Law, Sciences Po Paris \u2013 Former Director of \u201cMutations de l\u2019Action Publique et du Droit Public\u201d (\u00abChanges in Governance and Public Law\u00bb), Former Deputy Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":9969,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2023-03-01 12:30:00","event_end_date":"2023-03-01 14:00:00","event_speaker_name":"","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"Weicker Building","event_street":"4, rue Alphonse Weicker","event_location_link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/about\/campuses\/weicker-building\/","event_zip_code":"2721","event_city":"Luxembourg","event_country":"Spain"},"events-topic":[305],"events-type":[323,322,315,321],"organisation":[27,104,101,25],"authorship":[85],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>INDIGO Lecture, Questioning the &quot;smartness&quot; of smart governments - FDEF events I Uni.lu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cSmart\u201d has become a fashion trend buzzword which has been adopted by governments in pursuit of objectivity and rationality. 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