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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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Legal Status of Intelligent Robots in Chinese Law
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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The Legal Person and Its Other
“De-humanizing law” calls for a discussion of the concept of the legal person because legal processes of personification have at times gone beyond the anthropocentric bias in legal thinking and the definition of personhood has often brought about de ...
Jan Christoph Suntrup
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Legal Persons as Bearers of Rights Under the ECHR
Fundamental rights are typically conceived primarily as rights of individual human beings. At the same time, legal persons are recognised regularly as bearers of constitutional rights and even of international human rights.
Lorenz Dopplinger
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Legal Personhood for AI? [PDF]
Abstract This chapter considers legal personhood for artificial agents. It engages with the legal issues of autonomous systems, asking the question whether (and if so, under what conditions) such systems should be given the status of a legal subject, capable of acting in law and/or being held liable in law.
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Beyond Dualism(s): A New Approach to Legal Personhood in Contemporary Legal Theory
This 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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The foundations of conscientious objection: against freedom and autonomy [PDF]
According to the common view, conscientious objection is grounded in autonomy or in ‘freedom of conscience’ and is tolerated out of respect for the objector's autonomy.
Danaher, John, Nehushtan, Yossi
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Structuring concepts of legal personhood
Legal persons have traditionally been understood as entities with legal rights and/or duties. This traditional concept of legal personhood has been challenged during the last decades: In legal practice through the global development in law where previous legal non-persons such as different non-human natural entities, non-human animals, fetuses and ...
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Review of Integrationism and the Self: Reflections on the Legal Personhood of Animals [Series Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory] by Christopher Hutton. London: Routledge, 2019, 190 pp.
Paul Cobley
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On legal personhood of artificial intelligence [PDF]
Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly significant factor in social and economic life. As it is capable of performing a large portion of tasks as well as or even better and faster than humans, its use is becoming widespread, ranging from ...
Miščević Nikolina B. +1 more
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