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The idea of the legal person

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doi:10.4324/9781003388272-2
Authors
Francine Rochford
Reported year
2024
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en
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This chapter commences with a historical account of legal personhood that backgrounds Western legal traditions, including the philosophical underpinnings of recognising personhood in a legal sense. This account will develop the theme that personhood as a Western legal construct is not a repository of universally accepted rights or duties, and that the concept of legal personality stripped of societal context, rather than providing an answer to the question of rights, merely raises more questions. The account will then consider the influence of international law, from which much of the current rights-based thinking originates. The chapter will then discuss the concept of legal personhood in domestic law as it relates to natural and artificial legal persons and will focus particularly on incidents of legal personality applied to non-human animals and elements of the natural world.

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W4390538181
DOI
10.4324/9781003388272-2
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doi_________::7ee226dd4f3fa5aeb91353a7d6648958
ISBN
1003388272 · 9781003388272

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Routledge

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Francine Rochford. The idea of the legal person. 2024. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388272-2

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Francine Rochford. (2024). The idea of the legal person. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388272-2
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Francine Rochford. The idea of the legal person. Routledge. 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388272-2
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Francine Rochford. The idea of the legal person. 2024. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388272-2

UDTR Global Rights of Nature Legal Library. The idea of the legal person. Documentary record: https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-d5c2b50743893d9c3dcccb7ecb7d571c/ · Last HTTP verification: not performed

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Title
Crossref · source · 2026-11-10T01:19:03.044761+00:00
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:08:58.529599+00:00
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Crossref · source · 2026-11-10T01:19:03.044761+00:00
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:08:58.529599+00:00
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Crossref · source · 2026-11-10T01:19:03.044761+00:00
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:08:58.529599+00:00
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Crossref · source · 2026-11-10T01:19:03.044761+00:00
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:08:58.529599+00:00
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Crossref · source · 2026-11-10T01:19:03.044761+00:00
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:08:58.529599+00:00
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Francine Rochford

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Discovery source · http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003388272-2

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