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A Theory of Legal Personhood

A Theory of Legal Personhood

Name: A Theory of Legal Personhood
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198844037
Price: 1387.10 HKD
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Author: Visa A.J. Kurki
ISBN: 9780198844037

By Visa A.J. Kurki

Oxford University Press August 2019

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780198844037
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: August 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Who, or what, is a 'person' according to the law? How did this understanding of personhood come about? In the twenty-first century, environmentalism, animal rights, artificial intelligence, and corporate personhood have compelled us to consider these questions once again. Legal personhood is a foundational concept of Western legal thought and A Theory of Legal Personhood seeks to go beyond contemporary debates, challenging our very understanding of legal personhood itself.

Drawing on extensive research, scholarship, legislation, and court cases from around the globe, this book offers readers — with or without previous knowledge — new insights into legal personhood. It scrutinizes how personhood came to be understood synonymously with the holding of legal rights. It then posits that a better understanding of legal personhood is as a cluster property. Finally, it applies this new theory to explain and structure the numerous debates surrounding legal personhood.

Introduction

Part 1: The Orthodox View

1: A Short History of the Right-holding Person

2: Rights and Persons - Hohfeldian Analysis

Part 2: The Bundle Theory

3: The Incidents of Legal Personhood

4: Who or What Can Be a Legal Person?

Part 3: Applying the Theory

5: Collectivities as Legal Persons

6: The Legal Personhood of Artificial Intelligences

7: Legal Personhood in Normative Reasoning

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