Personhood in the Age of Biolegality: Brave New Law

ISBN-13: 9783030278472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 261 str.

Sonja Van Wichelen; Marc De Leeuw

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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

O autorze

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).

Blurb

This volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological knowledge is testing the nature and structure of legal personhood. Key questions include: What do the new biosciences do to our social, cultural, and legal conceptions of personhood? How does our legal apparatus incorporate new legitimations from the emerging biosciences into its knowledge system? And what kind of ethical, socio-political, and scientific consequences are attached to the establishment of such new legalities? The book examines these problems by looking at materialities, the posthuman, and the relational in the (un)making of legalities. Themes and topics include postgenomic research, gene editing, neuroscience, epigenetics, precision medicine, regenerative medicine, reproductive technologies, border technologies, and theoretical debates in legal theory on the relationship between persons, property, and rights.