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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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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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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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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
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
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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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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