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The definition of personhood is a key and contested philosophical issue that has made legalized abortion such a longstanding controversy.
Boats and companies have been treated as legal persons in the past. Why not an alpaca?
Happy has lived alone in captivity for 14 years, but a New York appeals court recently denied a legal effort to rehome her.
A bold new approach could protect endangered animals.
A legal loophole could grant computer systems many legal rights people have – threatening human rights and dignity and setting up some real legal and moral problems.
New Zealand’s Whanganui River and the Ganga and Yamuna Rivers in India have been given the right to ‘sue’ over issues like pollution. The challenge now is to ensure these legal rights are enforced.
An anthropologist argues for new ways to value sacred landscapes.
We tend instinctively to value human lives over non-human ones. But is there a point where the scales might tip the other way?
A New York State Supreme Court has declined to recognise the personhood of two chimpanzees being used by Stony Brook University for research. But the case is far from over.
In November, 33-year-old Texas woman Marlise Munoz collapsed at her Fort Worth home after suffering a suspected blood clot in her lungs. She was later declared brain dead. When the hospital determined…
A bill currently before the NSW Parliament attempts to criminalise harm to late-term foetuses that die due to injuries inflicted on their mother. But is foetal legal personhood the best way to recognise…
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Louisville
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Lecturer in Law, La Trobe University
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Reader in Psychology, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Associate Professor in Law, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Allard School of Law. Senior Director, UBC Sustainability Initiative, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington
