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Legal Personhood for AI systems: Conceptual Preliminaries

open access: yes, 2023
Second presentation of the Personhood SeriesThe question of AI legal personhood is increasingly becoming topical. However, this presupposes an understanding of what legal personhood is.
Kurki, Visa
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Environmental Personhood

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Parks are people too, my friend. So quipped an August 2016 headline making reference at once to Mitt Romney’s flip commentary on corporations and to recent developments in New Zealand law enabling landscapes to be named as legal persons—that is, as entities possessing juridical rights akin to those of corporations.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Failure of Theories of Personhood

open access: yes, 1999
The belief persists in philosophy, religion, science, and popular culture that some special cognitive property of persons like self-consciousness confers a unique moral standing.
Beauchamp, Tom L.
core   +1 more source

Beyond Dualism(s): A New Approach to Legal Personhood in Contemporary Legal Theory

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Iuridica
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
doaj   +1 more source

Gradient Legal Personhood for AI Systems—Painting Continental Legal Shapes Made to Fit Analytical Molds

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
What I propose in the present article are some theoretical adjustments for a more coherent answer to the legal “status question” of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
Diana Mădălina Mocanu
doaj   +1 more source

Reconsidering Legal Personhood in Indonesian Private Law: Bundles of Legal Incidents, Attribution, and Governance Failure

open access: yesSriwijaya Law Review
Legal personhood is undergoing a profound conceptual shift as private law confronts claims involving nature and artificial intelligence. This article reconsiders legal personhood not as an ontological category but as a functional institutional device for
Shidarta Shidarta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Legal Personhood and Power: Seeing Mechanisms of Devaluation and Hyper-Empowerment in Legal Systems

open access: yes, 2023
Legal personhood can be understood as the capacity for holding rights and obligations within a legal system, including the ability to make claims and seek remedies in law. Using a systems theory approach (developed by Niklas Luhmann) to understanding law
Hansen, Robin
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Relational Social Theories and Legal Pluralism

open access: yesThe Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies, 2021
Recent sociological, anthropological, and psychological research points at a shared problem: Are humans separate and autonomous entities, or must they be seen through the lens of extended, permeable, fractured notions of personhood?
Keebet von Benda-Beckman
doaj   +1 more source

Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

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