Demystifying Legal Personhood for Non-Human Entities: A Kelsenian Approach

IF 1.4 2区社会学 Q1 LAW

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-28 DOI:10.1093/ojls/gqac024

Thomas Buocz, Iris Eisenberger

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Abstract

This article aims to show that minimalist theories of legal personhood are particularly well suited to evaluating legal personhood proposals for non-humans. It adopts the perspective of Hans Kelsen’s theory of legal personhood, which reduces legal persons to bundles of legal norms. Through the lens of Kelsen’s theory, the article discusses two case studies: legal personhood for natural features in New Zealand and legal personhood for robots in the EU. While the New Zealand case was an acclaimed success, the EU’s proposal was heavily criticised and eventually abandoned. The article explains these widely differing outcomes by highlighting the relevant legal norms and their addressees rather than legal personhood itself. It does so by specifying the rights and obligations that constitute the legal persons, by preventing the attribution of any other rights and obligations to these persons and, finally, by tracing who is ultimately addressed by the relevant rights and obligations.

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揭开非人类实体法人身份的神秘面纱:一个凯尔森的方法

本文旨在表明，法律人格的极简主义理论特别适合于评估非人类的法律人格建议。它采用了汉斯·凯尔森法律人格理论的视角，将法人简化为一系列法律规范。通过Kelsen的理论，本文讨论了两个案例研究:新西兰自然特征的法人资格和欧盟机器人的法人资格。尽管新西兰的案例获得了巨大成功，但欧盟的提议遭到了严厉批评，最终被放弃。本文通过强调相关的法律规范及其适用对象而不是法律人格本身来解释这些差异很大的结果。它通过具体规定构成法人的权利和义务，防止将任何其他权利和义务归于这些人，最后查明有关权利和义务的最终对象。

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Oxford Journal of Legal Studies LAW-

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2.50

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies is published on behalf of the Faculty of Law in the University of Oxford. It is designed to encourage interest in all matters relating to law, with an emphasis on matters of theory and on broad issues arising from the relationship of law to other disciplines. No topic of legal interest is excluded from consideration. In addition to traditional questions of legal interest, the following are all within the purview of the journal: comparative and international law, the law of the European Community, legal history and philosophy, and interdisciplinary material in areas of relevance.