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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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Constructing legal personhood: corporate law’s legacy
Griffith Law Review, 2021Legal personality – its nature and function – has become a topic of renewed interest. In particular, there is increasing interest in extending existing categories of legal personality.
Michelle Worthington, Peta Spender
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Artificial moral and legal personhood
AI & 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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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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Litigating Nonhuman Animal Legal Personhood
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017In 2017 a New York appellate court issued a landmark ruling rejecting an animal rights organization’s efforts to assign legal personhood status to chimpanzees in Matter of Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. v. Lavery. This paper provides context for the ruling, and includes an amicus curiae brief the author filed in the case.
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Abstract This chapter introduces the concept of legal personhood as well as the right to legal personhood. Legal theory, moral philosophy, and human rights law are used to explore the definition of ‘legal personhood’. ‘Legal capacity’ and ‘equal recognition before the law’, terms frequently used in human rights law, are also explored. It
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Personhood: current legal views.
Second opinion (Park Ridge, Ill.), 1990Medical developments have given people unprecedented control over the beginning and end of life but have also altered traditional and legal concepts of personhood. Recent court decisions on prefetal life, fetuses, the infirm, and the dying reflect a struggle with the new ambiguity surrounding the definition of "person."
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Representations
In the scholarship on legal personhood, corporations have received significant attention. Beginning with oceans and maritime worlds, I offer a related, though often overlooked, history of legal personhood through the movements of the British merchant ship.
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In the scholarship on legal personhood, corporations have received significant attention. Beginning with oceans and maritime worlds, I offer a related, though often overlooked, history of legal personhood through the movements of the British merchant ship.
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Legal Personhood and Disability
Abstract This chapter discusses the right to legal personhood in the context of disability. It explores some of the key ways in which legal personhood is denied to disabled people, as well as unique barriers to legal personhood that are being experienced due to intersecting forms of marginalisation for some individuals and groups; for ...openaire +1 more source
Machine Minds: Frontiers in Legal Personhood
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015Research is at the point where we might have to confront the possibility of what computer scientists call “strong AI” in the coming years. A strong AI could be intelligent by most reasonable definitions of the word, and possibly have a subjective experience. It stands to reason that we must seriously consider whether such a machine should have its will
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