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A bundle of rights and Pachamama: Visa Kurki’s theory of legal personhood

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doi:10.4000/revus.6893
Authors
Brunello Stancioli
Reported year
2021
Reported language
en
Source type
book-review
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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BR

Documentary abstract — original language

This book review analyzes Visa Kurki’s innovative theoretical construction of the legal person and compares it with how the concept is used in two Andean countries: Bolivia and Ecuador. Kurki offers an alternative view of the fundamental considerations regarding the legal person, a view mostly based on the work of W. N. Hohfeld. This review first highlights the key points in Kurki’s theory and then examines a possible challenge to his scheme through the legal systems of Bolivia and Ecuador, both of which recognize non-sentient beings as legal persons. When the concept of Pachamama (Mother Earth) is defined as a starting point, a whole new plethora of legal persons emerge (rivers, trees, lakes, etc.). This extremely radical view aims to rescue ways of life quite different than Western ones and to provide the population with robust mechanisms for the protection of Pachamama. It is also a theoretical “counter-offer” to Kurki’s view of personhood.

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10.4000/revus.6893
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W3169034243

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book-review
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BO · EC
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River · Lake · Mother Earth · Pachamama

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Brunello Stancioli. A bundle of rights and Pachamama: Visa Kurki’s theory of legal personhood. 2021. https://doi.org/10.4000/revus.6893

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Brunello Stancioli. (2021). A bundle of rights and Pachamama: Visa Kurki’s theory of legal personhood. https://doi.org/10.4000/revus.6893
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Brunello Stancioli. A bundle of rights and Pachamama: Visa Kurki’s theory of legal personhood. 2021. https://doi.org/10.4000/revus.6893
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Brunello Stancioli. A bundle of rights and Pachamama: Visa Kurki’s theory of legal personhood. 2021. https://doi.org/10.4000/revus.6893

UDTR Global Rights of Nature Legal Library. A bundle of rights and Pachamama: Visa Kurki’s theory of legal personhood. Documentary record: https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-deb96f26cb3a2d5742ff9037bb2532f5/ · Last HTTP verification: not performed

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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Brunello Stancioli

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Discovery source · https://doi.org/10.4000/revus.6893

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