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Personhood in the Age of Biolegality

Brave New Law

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Editors:
  1. Marc de Leeuw

    1. Law, University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Sonja van Wichelen

    1. Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  • Seeks to understand the shifting meaning of personhood in light of recent biotechnological developments
  • Outlines the stakes involved in our development and understanding of modern personhood
  • Attempts to theorize alternative understandings of personhood from a legal perspective

Part of the book series: Biolegalities (BIOGA)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Brave New Law: Personhood in the Age of Biolegality

    • Marc de Leeuw, Sonja van Wichelen
    Pages 1-17

  7. Back Matter

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About this book

This volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological knowledge is testing the nature and structure of legal personhood. Key questions include: What do the new biosciences do to our social, cultural, and legal conceptions of personhood? How does our legal apparatus incorporate new legitimations from the emerging biosciences into its knowledge system? And what kind of ethical, socio-political, and scientific consequences are attached to the establishment of such new legalities? The book examines these problems by looking at materialities, the posthuman, and the relational in the (un)making of legalities. Themes and topics include postgenomic research, gene editing, neuroscience, epigenetics, precision medicine, regenerative medicine, reproductive technologies, border technologies, and theoretical debates in legal theory on the relationship between persons, property, and rights.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Law, University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Marc de Leeuw

  • Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Sonja van Wichelen

About the editors

Marc de Leeuw is Senior Lecturer at the Law School of the University of New South Wales, Australia, and convener of the UNSW Law Initiative for Biolegalities (IBL). His book Homo Capax. Paul Ricoeur’s Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology is forthcoming.

Sonja van Wichelen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Director of the Biopolitics of Science Research Network. She is the author of Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology (2018) and Religion, Gender and Politics in Indonesia: Disputing the Muslim Body (2010).


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