Overview
- Explores the concept of legal personality, drawing on legal philosophy and other traditions
- Provides theoretical background for topical issues in medical law, animal law etc.
- Represents a wide number of international jurisdictions, from Finland to Brazil
- Offers a comprehensive view of an issue neglected by contemporary jurisprudence
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 119)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Identifying the Legal Person
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Persons, Animals and Machines
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Humanity, Personhood and Bioethics
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About this book
This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights. The essays address analytic-descriptive questions, such as what legal personality actually means, and normative questions, such as who or what should be recognised as a legal person. As is well-known among jurists, the law has a special conception of personhood: corporations are persons, whereas slaves have traditionally been considered property rather than persons. This odd state of affairs has not garnered the interest of legal theorists for a while and the theory of legal personhood has been a relatively peripheral topic in jurisprudence for at least 50 years.
As readers will see, there have recently been many developments and debates that justify a theoretical investigation of this topic. Animal rights activists have been demanding that some animals be recognized as legal persons. The field of robotics has prompted questions about driverless cars: should they be granted a limited legal personality, so that the car itself would be responsible for damages?
This book explores such concepts and touches on matters of bioethics, animal law and medical law. It includes matters of legal history and appeals to both legal scholars and philosophers, especially those with an interest in theories of law and the philosophy of law.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn
Editors: Visa A.J. Kurki, Tomasz Pietrzykowski
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53462-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53461-9Published: 30 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85159-4Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53462-6Published: 23 March 2017
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 158
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Human Rights