Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn

Part I: Identifying the Legal Person.- 1. The Troublesome 'Person (Bartosz Brozek).- 2. Legal Persons as Abstractions (Ngaire Naffine).- 3. The Idea of Non-Personal Subjects of Law (Tomasz Pietrzykowski).- Part II Persons, Things and Rights.- 4. Why Things Can Hold Rights: Reconceptualizing the Legal Person (Visa Kurki).- 5. The Right of a House (Qing Xiangyang).- 6. Animals' Race Against Machines (Rafal Michalczak).- Part III: Humanity, Personhood and Bioethics.- 7. Person and Human Being in Bioethics and Law (Laura Palazzani).- 8. Detaching Personhood from Human Nature (Denis Franco Silva).- 9. Are Human Beings with Extreme Mental Disabilities and Animals Comparable? An Account on Personality (Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann & Gustavo Augusto Ferreira Barreto).- 10. Is (Only) Sex Essential for Personhood? To Be 'Between' Male and Female under Polish Law (Agnieszka Bielska-Brodziak & Aneta Gawlik).- 11. Private Selves - An Analysis of Legal Individualism (Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319534610
• ISBN13: 9783319534619
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"