Administrative Law in the Age of Models
Due process when the decision-maker is a statistical system
Jun 15, 2026 · 1 min read
Abstract
Government agencies increasingly delegate eligibility, risk scoring, and enforcement triage to statistical models. Administrative law's core guarantees, notice, reasons, and the opportunity to contest, were designed for human decisions and translate poorly to model-mediated ones. This paper maps the doctrinal gaps and proposes a review framework centered on contestability rather than explainability.
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