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Artificial moral and legal personhood
AI and Society, 2020This paper considers the hotly debated issue of whether one should grant moral and legal personhood to intelligent robots once they have achieved a certain standard of sophistication based on such criteria as rationality, autonomy, and social relations.
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Revelation and Legal Personhood
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020Abstract This chapter compares a ‘deific decree’ insanity case with constitutional originalism debates as a way to understand the boundaries of the legal person and the nature of law. The criminal defendant who claims innocence on the ground that ‘God told me to’ does not embody a conflict between law and religion, but a conflict ...
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Interrupted by Death: The Legal Personhood and Non-personhood of Corpses
2022Abstract In In Re Widening of Beekman Street, a nineteenth century legal case in New York State which involved questions of who owned the bodies of the dead – whether it was the state, the church who owned the land where they were buried or the relatives of the deceased – we see an interesting legal aporia.
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Journal of Business Ethics, 2018
The claim that corporations are not people is perhaps the most frequently voiced criticism of the United States Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. There is something obviously correct about this claim. While the nature and extent of obligations with respect to group agents like corporations and labor unions is far ...
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The claim that corporations are not people is perhaps the most frequently voiced criticism of the United States Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. There is something obviously correct about this claim. While the nature and extent of obligations with respect to group agents like corporations and labor unions is far ...
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2018
At the level of basic textbook knowledge, the concept of personhood in law does not seem to stir any major doubts or controversies. It is commonly identified with the capability of holding rights and duties, sometimes also connected with the ability to bear responsibility.
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At the level of basic textbook knowledge, the concept of personhood in law does not seem to stir any major doubts or controversies. It is commonly identified with the capability of holding rights and duties, sometimes also connected with the ability to bear responsibility.
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Gitxsan Legal Personhood: Gendered
2022Abstract In this chapter, the author explores the conditions of sexualised, gendered violence against Indigenous women and girls. The author asks how various responses to this violence have shaped the present-day legal personhood of Indigenous women and girls from two perspectives: an Indigenous legal perspective and a Canadian legal ...
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The Fragmentation of Legal Personhood
The legal concept of personhood, like that of property, has become increasingly susceptible to nominalistic and positivistic renderings, according to which it merely denotes the contingent arrangement of incidents as ascribed by lawmakers to various objects ("right and duty bearing units.").openaire +1 more source
The Concept of Legal Personhood
What does it take for someone—or something—to count as a legal person? Is it a matter of biology, ideology, or both? This book explores how societies determine who or what qualifies as a legal person, from individual humans to corporations, from nation-states to environmental entities.openaire +1 more source