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Instructors: Kelly A Dhru
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
Margins
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
2,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
5 | 22
Registration group: englische FS-Veranstaltungen
Comments/contents:
Who or what can be a legal person? Who or what should be a legal person? What does it mean for an entity to be a person in law?
Traditionally, the questions of legal personhood concerned artificial entities such as corporations. At the same time, there has always been a dimension of ‘inclusion in the moral community’ and ‘right-holding’ associated with the idea that an entity is considered to be legal person. The question of legal personhood has re-emerged as an important topic in jurisprudence in the recent years, on the one hand, with the debates around animal rights and ‘the rights of nature’ as well as those of future generations, and on the other hand, around the questions surrounding emerging technologies such as the claims of the personhood of a ‘sentient AI’, as well as other technological entities. This course looks at the questions around the different meanings and functions of ‘legal personhood’ in a variety of contexts.
Learning objectives:
In this course, we will read, analyse, and discuss some of the classic as well as recent texts on the questions of legal right-holding and personhood. The aim of this course is to engage with some of the classic as we all as more recent debates in jurisprudence around legal personhood. The format of the course will be largely dialogue and discussion based, with an aim to foster critical and analytical thinking.
Didactic concept:
This course will provide an avenue for the students to engage in the debates surrounding questions of the legality and permissibility of these technologies, and we will also ask if these technologies challenge our foundational assumptions about law and legal actors, and especially about the nature of the relationship between law and ethics. The course will be primarily discussion-based (although, like the technologies, the discussions, too, will be somewhat regulated), and will foster critical thinking and argumentative skills of the participating students.
Additional examination information:
Class presentations or a short essay of 1000 words
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