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Legal Personhood for Animals: Has Science Made Its Case? [PDF]
Animals, 2023 The use of Latin in identifying an organism’s genus and species is likely familiar to scientists and zoological professionals, but a traditional legal doctrine, known as habeas corpus (meaning “you have the body”) may not have obvious applicability to ...
Michelle C. Pardo
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The legal personhood of human brain organoids [PDF]
Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 2023 Abstract Research using three-dimensional neural tissues derived from human pluripotent stem cells—known as ‘human brain organoids’—has progressed rapidly in recent years. Although related ethical issues have been intensively discussed, legal issues have only been sparsely examined compared with the related ethical issues. In this paper,
Masanori Kataoka +2 more
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NON-NORMATIVE BODIES, RATIONALITY, AND LEGAL PERSONHOOD [PDF]
Medical Law Review, 2014 This article questions how legal personhood is constructed by law. Elective amputation is used as a way of interrogating the institutional, material, and discursive relations that combine in order to suspend legal personhood. Elective amputation is introduced in terms of medical and psychological explanations.
Travis, M
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Beyond Dualism(s): A New Approach to Legal Personhood in Contemporary Legal Theory
Acta Universitatis Carolinae IuridicaThis article presents a critique of the Orthodox View of legal personhood, which traditionally aligns personhood with the capacity to hold rights and duties.
Zsófia Folková
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Legal personhood and legal capacity: the case of the locked-in syndrome [PDF]
Journal of Law and the BiosciencesABSTRACT The situation of persons diagnosed with locked-in syndrome (LIS) raises a significant legal challenge. As a consequence of a brainstem stroke, they are quadriplegic and lack articulate speech but have normal visual perception, bodily sensations, consciousness, and cognitive functions.
Vidal F.
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Legal Personhood for Artificial Intelligence: Pro, Contra, Abstain?
Teisė, 2022 This article is about the legal personhood of artificial intelligence as one of the existing options of regulating AI and coping with the challenges arising out of its functioning.
Kateryna Militsyna
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Deconstruction of the legal personhood of artificial intelligence
Цифровое право, 2021 Calls to rethink the content of “legal personhood” are increasingly being heard at the present time: to recognize animals, artificial intelligence, etc. as a subject.
S. K. Stepanov
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Active but not independent: the legal personhood of children [PDF]
Griffith Law Review, 2021 This article seeks to contribute to a theoretical framework for understanding the status of children as legal persons in Western legal systems.
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Traditional Conceptions of the Legal Person and Nonhuman Animals
Animals, 2022 Since Roman law, the category of the legal person has been the most relevant legal category, allowing humans and entities to act within the law and enter into legal relations.
Macarena Montes Franceschini
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Relational Social Theories and Legal Pluralism
The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies, 2021 Recent sociological, anthropological, and psychological research points at a shared problem: Are humans separate and autonomous entities, or must they be seen through the lens of extended, permeable, fractured notions of personhood?
Keebet von Benda-Beckman
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