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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Legal Personhood"”.
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Legal personality of artificial intelligence under international law
… this work will first examine the concept of legal personality, its meaning and application in the legal framework of international law over the years. Without claiming advanced technological knowledge in scientific areas like robotics and engineering the paper will then try to present some …
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Other equators : measures for an international tribunal for the Rights of Nature
… to the scale of the planet and granting legal personhood to nonhuman entities such as mountains. More than a decade since it was first recognized, the Rights of Nature remains an elusive notion, easily absorbed into the logic of practices that reduce Nature to its exchange value.
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A Theory of Tort Liability for Autonomous-machine-caused Harm
… principally un-foreseeable, and therefore, not legally attributable to the human agency of designers, manufacturers or users. This thesis assesses which tort doctrines—negligence, strict liability or vicarious liability—are most amenable to developing a theory of liability for …
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Waste Not: Criminalizing Wastefulness in Early Modern Germany
<p>This dissertation analyzes the development of legal strategies to restrict “wastefulness” or “prodigality” during the economic crises of the long sixteenth century in Southwest Germany, as the state, community and small town families struggled to preserve family and household resources. Using …
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Exploring options in law for the legal recognition of the ‘rights of nature’ in South Africa: lessons from Ecuador, New Zealand, India, and Uganda.
… the RoN, New Zealand recognised legal personhood by reaching an agreement with an indigenous community and further drew up legislation focusing on one aspect of nature (in this case rivers) instead of nature as a whole. On the other hand, India relies on the judiciary to protect …
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Personhood, Collective Intention and Corporate Moral Responsibility
… of corporations as rights-bearing artificial legal persons allows them to be held morally responsible as unitary entities and members of the moral community, or if their status requires ascription of moral responsibility to reduce to their individual participants. I argue that moral …
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More Equal Than Others: Animals in the Age of the Human Rights Aristocracy
… fundamental rights (and cognate concepts such as legal personhood) to some other deserving animals on the basis of species membership rather than individual capacities (I call this the Species Membership Approach, or SMA). Although SMA conflicts with the orthodox anti-speciesism in animal rights …