Personhood in the Age of Biolegality

Brave New Law

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvMarc de Leeuw,Sonja van Wichelen,Marc De Leeuw,Sonja Van Wichelen,Sonja van Wichelen

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This volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological knowledge is testing the nature and structure of legal personhood.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-11-27
Mått148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt371 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBiolegalities
Antal sidor261
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030278502

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Marc de Leeuw is Senior Lecturer at the Law School of the University of New South Wales, Australia, and convener of the UNSW Law Initiative for Biolegalities (IBL). His book Homo Capax. Paul Ricoeur’s Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology is forthcoming.Sonja van Wichelen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Director of the Biopolitics of Science Research Network. She is the author of Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology (2018) and Religion, Gender and Politics in Indonesia: Disputing the Muslim Body (2010).

Acknowledgements.-Chapter 1. Brave New Law: Personhood in the Age of Biolegality PART I – TROUBLING PERSONS.- Chapter 2. Spectral Personas: Exploring the Constitution and Legal Standing of “Virtual Personhood”.- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Neurolaw: Can Neurolaw Destabilize the Neoliberal Discourse about Personal Responsibility?.- Chapter 4. Legal Personhood in Postgenomic Times: Plasticity, Rights, and Relationality.- PART II – EVIDENCING PERSONS.- Chapter 5. “The Proof is in my Chromosomes”: Translating Radiation Exposure into Legal Liability and State Culpability..- Chapter 6. Narrative Epistemology in Jurisprudence and Elective Affinities in Productions of Responsibility for Persons in Pain.- Chapter 7. Racial Futurity: Biolegality and the Question of Black Life .- PART III – GOVERNING PERSONS.- Chapter 8. Evident Genomes: Phenotypic Personhood and the Epigenetic Processing of Asylum.-Chapter 9. CRISPR Cowboys? Genetic Self-Experimentation and the Limits of the Person.-Chapter 10. In Genes We Trust: Genetic Privacy in the Age of Precision Medicine.-PART IV – THE FUTURE OF PERSONS.- Chapter 11.“The Obsolescence of Human Beings” and the Future of Law’s Natural Persons: Transformations of Legal Personhood Through the Lens of “Promethean Shame.- Chapter 12. Distributed Cognition, Distributed Persons, and the Foundations of Law.- Chapter 13. Legal Personality in Trusts and Corporations.-Chapter 14. Afterword: After the Great Undoing.