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This work offers a new theory of what it means to be a legal person and suggests that it is best understood as a cluster property. The book explores the origins of legal personhood, the issues afflicting a traditional understanding of the concept, and the numerous debates surrounding the topic.
Sommario
- 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
Info autore
Dr Visa AJ Kurki is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Law Faculty of the University of Helsinki. He received his PhD in 2017 from the University of Cambridge. Kurki has published on legal personhood, rights theory, and animal law. He is also vice president of the Finnish Society for Legal Philosophy.
Riassunto
This work offers a new theory of what it means to be a legal person and suggests that it is best understood as a cluster property. The book explores the origins of legal personhood, the issues afflicting a traditional understanding of the concept, and the numerous debates surrounding the topic.
Testo aggiuntivo
This book has arrived at a most opportune time. As courts and legislatures around the world are discussing the concept of legal personhood in relation to entities such as the natural environment, nonhuman animals, artificial intelligence and human foetuses, there is urgent need for clarity on what the concept means. Dr Kurki's book offers the most comprehensive analysis of this subject in a decade. Orthodoxies are critiqued, a new account of personhood is propounded and its practical implications are explored in a rigorous yet accessible manner. Essential reading for scholars and lawyers alike who have an interest in the topic.
