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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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Beyond Dualism(s): A New Approach to Legal Personhood in Contemporary Legal Theory
Acta Universitatis Carolinae IuridicaThis 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 Legal Person and Its Other
On_Culture, 2017 “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
University 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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Negotiating Personhood Beyond the Human: A Relational Legal Thought Experiment
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia IuridicaThis article explores the ontological foundations of legal personhood in light of contemporary philosophical challenges to the human–nonhuman divide.
Zsófia Folková
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Sign 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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Environmental Personhood and Standing for Nature: Examining the Colorado River case [PDF]
, 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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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee +9 more
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Of Elephants and Embryos: A Proposed Framework for Legal Personhood [PDF]
, 2007 What is a person? What responsibilities or obligations do we have to entities that we recognize as persons under the law? These are not simply theoretical questions.
Berg, Jessica
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often exhibit early deficits in muscle and movement competence, which can compromise long‐term health. Integrative neuromuscular training (INT), a multifaceted approach combining fundamental movement activities with strength exercises, may help address these deficits during ...
Anna Maria Markarian +7 more
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