Includes bibliographical references. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Part I. Identifying the Legal Person -- The troublesome 'person' / Bartosz Bro<U+fffd>zek -- 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 / Rafa<U+fffd> 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.
Series:
Law and philosophy library, 1572-4395 ; volume 119
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