AUSPUBLAW is pleased to publish this book forum on Yee-Fui Ng’s Combatting the Code: Regulating Automated Government Decision-Making in Comparative Context (Cambridge University Press, 2025). In this forum, Anna Huggins, Frank Pasquale and Alexandra Sinclair offer their thoughts on the book, and the author responds.

The posts in this series are:

• Anna Huggins, Regulating Automated Government Decision-Making: An Australian Perspective - Combatting the Code book forum

• Frank Pasquale, Reason-Giving Without Reasoners? Confronting Generative AI Use in Administrative Processes - Combatting the Code book forum

• Alexandra Sinclair, Struggling to combat the code: An alternative account of reviewing automated decision-making in the UK - Combatting the Code book forum

• Yee-Fui Ng, Combatting the Code book forum - Author Response