Are Persons Property? - Legal Debates About Property and Personality

Sommario

Contents: Persons as property: legal and philosophical debates; From dominium to thin air: concepts of property; The nature of legal personality: its history and its incidents; Sex, reproduction and the self-proprieter; Personality and property at the end of life: the will and the corpse; Intellectual property in the person; Owning the building blocks of life; Persons beyond property?; Bibliography; Index.

Info autore

Margaret Davies is an Associate Professor of Law at Flinders University, Australia. Her research interests are legal theory, postmodernism and feminism. Ngaire Naffine is Professor of Law at Adelaide University, Australia. Her research interests are criminal law, legal theory, feminism and medical law.

Riassunto

This title was first published in 2001. Two of Australia’s leading feminist legal theorists examine the relationship between persons and property and the concept of self-ownership in relation to current legal debates.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Davies, Margaret Davies, Margaret (Flinders University Adelaide Aus Davies, Margaret (Flinders University Adelaide Australia) Davies, Margaret Naffine Davies, Ngaire Naffine, Ngaire (University of Adelaide) Naffine
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138736351
• ISBN: 978-1-138-73635-1
• Serie: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie