Shaving Ockham
Visa Kurki’s ‘A Theory of Legal Personhood’ makes an impressive effort to put legal personhood on a more rigorous analytical footing without shying away from contentious issues such as the legal rights and personhood of foetuses, AIs, and animals. Focusing on its contribution to animal rights law, I...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:revus_6921 https://doi.org/10.4000/revus.6921 urn:doi:10.4000/revus.6921 en https://journals.openedition.org/revus/6921 2021-06-12T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/k0pc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Shaving Ockham Revus Klub Revus info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1855-7112 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1581-7652 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/revus Fasel, Raffael N. pluralism animal rights law Orthodox View thin rights thick rights Fundamental Rights View Visa Kurki’s ‘A Theory of Legal Personhood’ makes an impressive effort to put legal personhood on a more rigorous analytical footing without shying away from contentious issues such as the legal rights and personhood of foetuses, AIs, and animals. Focusing on its contribution to animal rights law, I show in this review that despite its numerous strengths, the book also has important shortcomings. A particular problem that stands out is that Kurki’s theory of legal personhood is built on an uncharitable reading of the accounts of two leading animal rights proponents. Unlike Kurki suggests, these accounts do not equate legal personhood with rights-holding, but with fundamental rights-holding. This position—which I call the Fundamental Rights View—can explain all the beliefs that Kurki’s theory aims to explain, but without being nearly as complex as it. Moreover, while Kurki’s theory helpfully raises awareness of the varied nature of legal personhood, I suggest that a pluralist understanding of legal personhood might provide a simpler explanation for that diversity. |
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Visa Kurki’s ‘A Theory of Legal Personhood’ makes an impressive effort to put legal personhood on a more rigorous analytical footing without shying away from contentious issues such as the legal rights and personhood of foetuses, AIs, and animals. Focusing on its contribution to animal rights law, I show in this review that despite its numerous strengths, the book also has important shortcomings. A particular problem that stands out is that Kurki’s theory of legal personhood is built on an uncharitable reading of the accounts of two leading animal rights proponents. Unlike Kurki suggests, these accounts do not equate legal personhood with rights-holding, but with fundamental rights-holding. This position—which I call the Fundamental Rights View—can explain all the beliefs that Kurki’s theory aims to explain, but without being nearly as complex as it. Moreover, while Kurki’s theory helpfully raises awareness of the varied nature of legal personhood, I suggest that a pluralist understanding of legal personhood might provide a simpler explanation for that diversity. |
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