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Legal Persons as Bearers of Rights Under the ECHR

open access: yesUniversity of Vienna Law Review, 2021
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]

open access: yes, 2020
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.
openaire   +1 more source

The foundations of conscientious objection: against freedom and autonomy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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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“Who goes there?” Reflections on signs and personhood in Christopher Hutton’s Integrationism and the Self

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2020
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]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu
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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Structuring concepts of legal personhood

open access: yesRevus, 2023
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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Extension of Legal Personhood in Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesRevista de Bioética y Derecho, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the main ethical, legal and social implications (ELSIs) concerning social humanoid robots that have their base in artificial intelligence (AI).
Pin Lean Lau
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Personhood and Standing for Nature: Examining the Colorado River case [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
As the planet faces the growing threat of climate change, environmental advocates are searching for alternative legal avenues to protect natural entities in the courts. In 2017, the Colorado River Ecosystem brought a lawsuit against the State of Colorado
Miller, Matthew
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Association of Corticospinal Tract Asymmetry With Ambulatory Ability After Intracerebral Hemorrhage

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Ambulatory ability after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is important to patients. We tested whether asymmetry between ipsi‐ and contra‐lesional corticospinal tracts (CSTs) assessed by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is associated with post‐ICH ambulation.
Yasmin N. Aziz   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

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