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Personhood in the Age of Biolegality: Brave New Law

Personhood in the Age of Biolegality: Brave New Law

Author: Marc de Leeuw; Sonja van Wichelen
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 9783030278472
Published In: January 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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Chapter 1. Brave New Law: Personhood in the Age of Biolegality

PART I - TROUBLING PERSONS

Chapter 2. Spectral Personas: Exploring the Constitution and Legal Standing of "Virtual Personhood"

Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Neurolaw: Can Neurolaw Destabilize the Neoliberal Discourse about Personal Responsibility?

Chapter 4. Legal Personhood in Postgenomic Times: Plasticity, Rights, and Relationality

PART II - EVIDENCING PERSONS

Chapter 5. "The Proof is in my Chromosomes": Translating Radiation Exposure into Legal Liability and State Culpability

Chapter 6. Narrative Epistemology in Jurisprudence and Elective Affinities in Productions of Responsibility for Persons in Pain

Chapter 7. Racial Futurity: Biolegality and the Question of Black Life

PART III - GOVERNING PERSONS

Chapter 8. Evident Genomes: Phenotypic Personhood and the Epigenetic Processing of Asylum

Chapter 9. CRISPR Cowboys? Genetic Self-Experimentation and the Limits of the Person

Chapter 10. In Genes We Trust: Genetic Privacy in the Age of Precision Medicine

PART IV - THE FUTURE OF PERSONS

Chapter 11."The Obsolescence of Human Beings" and the Future of Law's Natural Persons: Transformations of Legal Personhood Through the Lens of "Promethean Shame

Chapter 12. Distributed Cognition, Distributed Persons, and the Foundations of Law

Chapter 13. Legal Personality in Trusts and Corporations

Chapter 14. Afterword: After the Great Undoing