Legal personhood : animals, artificial intelligence and the unborn / Visa A.J. Kurki, Tomasz Pietrzykowski, editors.
2017
K625 .L44 2017 (Mapit)
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Legal personhood : animals, artificial intelligence and the unborn / Visa A.J. Kurki, Tomasz Pietrzykowski, editors.
Imprint
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
Copyright
© 2017.
Description
ix, 158 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
Law and philosophy library ; v. 119. 1572-4395.
Formatted Contents Note
Part I. Identifying the Legal Person. The troublesome 'person' / Bartosz Brożek
Legal persons as abstractions: the extrapolation of persons from the male case / Ngaire Naffine
Private selves: an analysis of legal individualism / Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo
Part II. Persons, Animals and Machines. The idea of non-personal subjects of law / Tomasz Pietrzykowski
Why things can hold rights: reconceptualizing the legal person / Visa A.J. Kurki
Animals' race against the machines / Rafał Michalczak
Part III. Humanity, Personhood and Bioethics. Person and human being in bioethics and biolaw / Laura Palazzani
From human to person: detaching personhood from human nature / Denis Franco Silva
Are human beings with extreme mental disabilities and animals comparable? an account of personality / Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann and Gustavo Augusto Ferreira Barreto
Is sex essential for personhood? being "halfway between female and male" from the perspective of Polish law / Agnieszka Bielska
Brodziak and Aneta Gawlik.
Legal persons as abstractions: the extrapolation of persons from the male case / Ngaire Naffine
Private selves: an analysis of legal individualism / Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo
Part II. Persons, Animals and Machines. The idea of non-personal subjects of law / Tomasz Pietrzykowski
Why things can hold rights: reconceptualizing the legal person / Visa A.J. Kurki
Animals' race against the machines / Rafał Michalczak
Part III. Humanity, Personhood and Bioethics. Person and human being in bioethics and biolaw / Laura Palazzani
From human to person: detaching personhood from human nature / Denis Franco Silva
Are human beings with extreme mental disabilities and animals comparable? an account of personality / Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann and Gustavo Augusto Ferreira Barreto
Is sex essential for personhood? being "halfway between female and male" from the perspective of Polish law / Agnieszka Bielska
Brodziak and Aneta Gawlik.
Summary
"This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights. The essays address analytic-descriptive questions, such as what legal personality actually means, and normative questions, such as who or what should be recognised as a legal person. As is well-known among jurists, the law has a special conception of personhood: corporations are persons, whereas slaves have traditionally been considered property rather than persons. This odd state of affairs has not garnered the interest of legal theorists for a while and the theory of legal personhood has been a relatively peripheral topic in jurisprudence for at least 50 years. As readers will see, there have recently been many developments and debates that justify a theoretical investigation of this topic. Animal rights activists have been demanding that some animals be recognized as legal persons. The field of robotics has prompted questions about driverless cars: should they be granted a limited legal personality, so that the car itself would be responsible for damages? This book explores such concepts and touches on matters of bioethics, animal law and medical law. It includes matters of legal history and appeals to both legal scholars and philosophers, especially those with an interest in theories of law and the philosophy of law." -- Back cover.
Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Location
STA
Call Number
K625 .L44 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9783319534619 (hardback : acid-free paper)
3319534610 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9783319534626 (eBook)
3319534610 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9783319534626 (eBook)
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