Overview

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.

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Author:   Marc de Leeuw ,  Sonja van Wichelen
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030278502

ISBN 10:   3030278506
Pages:   261
Publication Date:   27 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Brave New Law: Personhood in the Age of Biolegality PART I – TROUBLING PERSONSChapter 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 RelationalityPART II – EVIDENCING PERSONSChapter 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 PainChapter 7. Racial Futurity: Biolegality and the Question of Black Life PART III – GOVERNING PERSONSChapter 8. Evident Genomes: Phenotypic Personhood and the Epigenetic Processing of AsylumChapter 9. CRISPR Cowboys? Genetic Self-Experimentation and the Limits of the PersonChapter 10. In Genes We Trust: Genetic Privacy in the Age of Precision MedicinePART IV – THE FUTURE OF PERSONSChapter 11.“The Obsolescence of Human Beings” and the Future of Law’s Natural Persons: Transformations of Legal Personhood Through the Lens of “Promethean ShameChapter 12. Distributed Cognition, Distributed Persons, and the Foundations of LawChapter 13. Legal Personality in Trusts and CorporationsChapter 14. Afterword: After the Great Undoing

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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).

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