A theory of legal personhood /

A theory of legal personhood

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oxford University Press ()
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press ()
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford Univerity Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford Legal Philosophy
Subjects:
Socjologia i antropologia prawa
Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki / United States of America (USA)
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Description:
Legal personhood is a foundational concept of Western legal thought. It has recently become highly topical, underpinning contemporary debates over the legal status of animals, corporations, foetuses, natural objects, and artificial intelligences. The notion is furthermore crucial in explaining the historical legal statuses of women and slaves. Rather than addressing who or what should be a legal person, this book examines the concept itself. The book consists of an Introduction and three parts. The Introduction presents the Western doctrine of legal personhood, the relevant terms and concepts, and the methodology employed in the book. Part I shows, first, how legal personhood came to be understood synonymously with the holding of legal rights and/or duties. It then subjects this understanding of legal personhood to a rigorous scrutiny, exposing numerous problems afflicting the view. Part II provides a completely new, general theory of legal personhood, arguing that legal personhood is best understood as a cluster property, consisting of distinct incidents. The final part applies the new theory to explain and structure the numerous debates surrounding legal personhood, explaining what is at stake in the animal legal personhood trials taking place in the US and elsewhere.


Table of Contents:
  • Introduction (s. 1-28) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844037.003.0001
  • A short history of the right-holding person (s. 31-54) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844037.003.0002
  • Rights and persons : hohfeldian analysis (s. 55-88) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844037.003.0003
  • The incidents of legal personhood (s. 91-126) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844037.003.0004
  • Who or What Can be a Legal Person? (s. 127-152) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844037.003.0005
  • Collectivities as legal persons (s. 155-174) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844037.003.0006
  • The legal personhood of artificial intelligences (s. 175-190) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844037.003.0007
  • Legal personhood in normative reasoning (s. 191-202) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844037.003.0008