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Legal Personhood and Animal Rights [PDF]
Journal of Animal Ethics, 2021 Abstract A relatively recent form of animal activism is lawsuits intended to declare some animals as legal persons. A pioneer of this approach is the U.S.-based Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP). This organization’s primary strategy has been to invoke the writ of habeas corpus, which protects the right to personal freedom of “persons.” The ...
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 To what extent, if any, should the law protect sentient artificial intelligence (that is, AI that can feel pleasure or pain)? Here we surveyed United States adults (n = 1,061) on their views regarding granting 1) general legal protection, 2) legal ...
Eric Martínez +4 more
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Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief [PDF]
, 2018 In December 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee living alone in a cage in a shed in rural New York (Barlow, 2017).
Andrews, Kristin +12 more
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The Conflict Between People’s Urge to Punish AI and Legal Systems
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 Regulating artificial intelligence (AI) has become necessary in light of its deployment in high-risk scenarios. This paper explores the proposal to extend legal personhood to AI and robots, which had not yet been examined through the lens of the general ...
Gabriel Lima +5 more
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We’re All Infected: Legal Personhood, Bare Life and The Walking Dead [PDF]
, 2015 This article argues that greater theoretical attention should be paid to the figure of the zombie in the fields of law, cultural studies and philosophy. Using The Walking Dead as a point of critical departure concepts of legal personhood are interrogated
A Loudermilk +31 more
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Autonomous Systems as Legal Agents: Directly by the Recognition of Personhood or Indirectly by the Alchemy of Algorithmic Entities [PDF]
, 1999 The clinical manifestations of platelet dense (δ) granule defects are easy bruising, as well as epistaxis and bleeding after delivery, tooth extractions and surgical procedures.
Fagerberg, I. +2 more
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Vital, Sophia, and Co.—The Quest for the Legal Personhood of Robots
Information, 2018 The paper examines today’s debate on the legal status of AI robots, and how often scholars and policy makers confuse the legal agenthood of these artificial agents with the status of legal personhood.
Ugo Pagallo
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Vůle a její relevance pro právní filozofii
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Iuridica, 2023 The article deals with the will and related legal issues. It first discusses the historical development of the concept of will and then looks at other issues relating to it, such as its freedom. It shows the different ways in which the definition of will
Oldřich Tristan Florian
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Legal Status of Intelligent Robots in Chinese Law
حقوق فناوریهای نوین, 2023 With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), the legal community has raised various views on the civil rights status of intelligent robots. The main question is whether robots can be granted legal personality.
Mehrnoush Fanaei , Li Xin Yang
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Derecho Animal, 2018 It is in a possible future reconstruction of the notion of legal personhood that the key to better protection for animals may lie. At least, this is the belief of those who seek to expand the current understanding of personhood to encompass animals.
Oliver Wookey
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