scholarly journals Legal Personhood for AI?

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-250
Author(s):  
Mireille Hildebrandt
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Artificial Agents ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
Legal Personhood ◽  
Legal Subjectivity ◽  
The Status

This chapter considers legal personhood for artificial agents. It engages with the legal issues of autonomous systems, asking the question whether (and if so, under what conditions) such systems should be given the status of a legal subject, capable of acting in law and/or being held liable in law. The main reason for considering this option is the rise of semi-autonomous systems that display unpredictable behaviour, causing harm not foreseeable by those who developed, sold, or deployed them. Under current law it might be difficult to establish liability for such harm. To investigate these issues, the chapter explains the concepts of legal subjectivity and legal agency, before inquiring into the nature of artificial agency. Finally, the chapter assesses whether attributing legal personhood to artificial agents would solve the problem of private law liability for harm caused by semi-autonomous systems.

scholarly journals State Owned Enterprises Finance from the Perspective of State Funds

Yuridika ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 363
Author(s):  
Sopian Sitepu
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The State ◽  
Company Law ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
The Status

The existence of State-Owned enterprises (SOE) as one of Indonesia’s legal entities, whereby the State owns part of all of the capital of the company has presented several legal issues. The BUMN Act that has become the basis for establishing State-Owned enterprises has become its own independent legal subject and separates itself from the wealth of the State and has adhered to the provisions of the Company Law Act so that the capital that is presented by the State to the corporation remains as the capital of the SOE and not form the State. However, existing legislations regarding State funds places the funds for SOE as being part of the State budget. This ambiguity in the status of BUMN Funds is not only found in legislations but also in two different constitutional court decisions that presents inconsistencies towards law enforcers. This clear distinction is crucial in the practice of law enforcement in Indonesia.

scholarly journals Subject (in) Trouble: Humans, Robots, and Legal Imagination

Laws ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Legal Personhood ◽  
Legal Subjectivity ◽  
Human Exceptionalism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

The legal conception and interpretation of the subject of law have long been challenged by different theoretical backgrounds: from the feminist critiques of the patriarchal nature of law and its subjects to the Marxist critiques of its capitalist ideological nature and the anti-racist critiques of its colonial nature. These perspectives are, in turn, challenged by anarchist, queer, and crip conceptions that, while compelling a critical return to the subject, the structure and the law also serve as an inspiration for arguments that deplete the structures and render them hostages of the sovereignty of the subject’ self-fiction. Identity Wars (a possible epithet for this political and epistemological battle to establish meaning through which power is exercised) have, for their part, been challenged by a renewed axiological consensus, here introduced by posthuman critical theory: species hierarchy and anthropocentric exceptionalism. As concepts and matter, questioning human exceptionalism has created new legal issues: from ecosexual weddings with the sea, the sun, or a horse; to human rights of animals; to granting legal personhood to nature; to human rights of machines, inter alia the right to (or not to) consent. Part of a wider movement on legal theory, which extends the notion of legal subjectivity to non-human agents, the subject is increasingly in trouble. From Science Fiction to hyperrealist materialism, this paper intends to signal some of the normative problems introduced, firstly, by the sovereignty of the subject’s self-fiction; and, secondly, by the anthropomorphization of high-tech robotics.

The Validity of Rector�s Circular Letter on the Covid-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fradhana Putra Disantara
Keyword(s):  
Legal Theory ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
State Universities ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Circular Letter ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government

This study aims to analyze the relevance of the �health emergency� status to the existing legal theory and condition as well as to identify the validity of the Circular Letter of the Rector of State Universities. To this end, this study applied the statute and conceptual approach. The study was conducted by inventorying primary and secondary legal materials to obtain a proper and critical review of the legal issues under study. The results showed that the determination of the �health emergency� status by the government was inappropriate due to the uncertainty of the regulations issued by the government to determine the current condition. Thus, the status of the COVID-19 pandemic is a �legal emergency� status. Further, the Rector�s policy through the Circular Letter is valid judicially, sociologically, and philosophically. The determination of the �legal emergency� status can be done by issuing a Perppu without a �state of emergency� from the President. Finally, it is suggested to firstly get an approval from the Ministry of Education and Culture regarding the issuance of the Rector�s Circular Letter. Besides, further study is needed as this study was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic.�Keabsahan Surat Edaran Rektor Perguruan Tinggi dalam Pandemi Covid-19Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisa relevansi status �darurat kesehatan� dengan teori hukum dan kondisi yang ada dan keabsahan atas Surat Edaran Rektor Perguruan Tinggi Negeri. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah statute approach dan conseptual approach. Penelitian dilakukan dengan menginventarisasi bahan hukum primer dan sekunder, guna mendapatkan kajian yang seyogianya dan telaah kritis terkait isu hukum. Hasil penelitian menyatakan penetapan status darurat kesehatan oleh pemerintah kurang tepat, dikarenakan tidak menentu-nya peraturan yang dikeluarkan oleh pemerintah untuk menetapkan kondisi saat ini. Sehingga, status pandemi COVID-19 merupakan status darurat hukum. Kebijakan rektor melalui Surat Edaran adalah absah secara aspek yuridis, sosiologis, dan filosofis. Penetapan darurat hukum cukup dilakukan dengan menerbitkan Perppu tanpa pernyataan darurat dari Presiden. Saran peneliti adalah di perlukan persetujuan pada Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan terkait terbitnya Surat Edaran Rektor, dan dibutuhkan penelitian lebih lanjut dikarenakan penelitian ini dilakukan pada masa COVID-19 yang bersifat temporal.�

scholarly journals Mekanisme Pembubaran Partai Politik di Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-242
Author(s):  
Ramot H.P Limbong ◽  
I Gusti Bagus Suryawan ◽  
I Nyoman Sutama
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Preliminary Examination ◽  
The Status ◽  
Legal Arguments

Political parties as legal entities may be subject to criminal liability as they are seen from the characteristic of political parties in accordance with the characteristics of the legal entity. The dissolution of political parties becomes one of the legal issues governed by Indonesian legislation. The problem of this research is: 1) how is the Constitutional Court Authority in the dissolution of political parties in Indonesia? 2) How is the mechanism of dissolution of political parties? The type of research and approach problems used is normative legal research and statutory approaches. The source of the legal material used is the primary source of legal material and the source of secondary legal material. The technique of collecting legal materials is the technique of library study. The collected legal materials are processed and analyzed using legal arguments. The result of this research is the procedure of the dissolution of political parties in the Constitutional Court as follows: Application submission, application registration and trial schedule, preliminary examination, trial examination, meeting Judge, the verdict of the Constitutional Court. The result of the dissolution of political parties may result in external rights and obligations, due to elected positions, due to the status of managers and members and the consequences of internal rights and obligations.

scholarly journals Gradient Legal Personhood for AI Systems—Painting Continental Legal Shapes Made to Fit Analytical Molds

2022 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Mădălina Mocanu
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Bundle Theory ◽  
Gradient Theory ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Legal Personhood ◽  
The Status ◽  
Theory Framework ◽  
Theory Paradigm

What I propose in the present article are some theoretical adjustments for a more coherent answer to the legal “status question” of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. I arrive at those by using the new “bundle theory” of legal personhood, together with its accompanying conceptual and methodological apparatus as a lens through which to look at a recent such answer inspired from German civil law and named Teilrechtsfähigkeit or partial legal capacity. I argue that partial legal capacity is a possible solution to the status question only if we understand legal personhood according to this new theory. Conversely, I argue that if indeed Teilrechtsfähigkeit lends itself to being applied to AI systems, then such flexibility further confirms the bundle theory paradigm shift. I then go on to further analyze and exploit the particularities of Teilrechtsfähigkeit to inform a reflection on the appropriate conceptual shape of legal personhood and suggest a slightly different answer from the bundle theory framework in what I term a “gradient theory” of legal personhood.

scholarly journals Disabled consumers in solidary private law

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lúcia Souza d'Aquino ◽  
Guilherme Mucelin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Status

This work analyzes the evolution of private law, centered on individualism and totalizing codification, towards private law of solidarity, centered on solidarism, which valorizes the person before his particularities and his laws of protection. Thus, with the strengthening of constitutional principles and human rights, the disabled person is described, as a consumer, as hypervulnerable, worthy of specific protection, which will only be effective with the dialogue between the Consumer Protection Code and the Status of the Disabled Person. The research problem centers on how to protect the disabled person as a consumer from the plurality of standards that affect this relationship, in particular the Consumer Protection Code and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. Using a hypothetical methodology, it is assumed that the dialogue of sources method is the appropriate means to effectively protect people with disabilities in the consumer market

scholarly journals Specialist Clinical Legal Education: An Australian Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Campbell ◽  
Alan Ray
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Australian Universities

<p>Clinical legal education in Australia traditionally has been based in generalist clinics, where the client and caseload intake is limited primarily by the financial means of clients rather than by the legal subject matter of their problems. The breadth and variety of legal problems which confront clinic students provide insight into and understanding of the operation of the legal system at the grass roots and the legal issues raised rarely seem to reflect directly the law the students have learnt in the classroom.</p><p>In recent years, for both educational and political reasons, Australian Universities have begun to develop specialised clinics, serving clients with problems in a particular area of law.</p><p>This article describes the operation of Monash’s specialised Family Law clinic and considers the factors which, in the Monash experience, have combined to ensure its stability and recognition, within the University and in the broader political context.</p>

Urgensi Penguatan Hak Atas Tanah Druwe Desa di Bali

Tunas Agraria ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Putu Dody Sastrawan ◽  
I Gusti Nyoman Guntur ◽  
Dwi Wulan Titik Andari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right

Abstract: Druwe Desa land is a customary whose management is implemented and belongs to desa pakraman. Although it has been acknowledged juridically, but the existence of Druwe Desa land in Bali is experiencing a vacuum related to the legal subject. On that basis, desa pakraman is appointed as subject of rights with respect to its land through the Decree of the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial/Head of National Land Agency Number 276/Kep-19.2/X/2017. The purpose of this research is to: (1) Make map of distribution of Druwe Desa land; (2) Describe the importance of strengthening the right to Druwe Desa land; (3) Describe the procedures for strengthening the right to Druwe Desa land; (4) Describe the benefits of the strengthening of Druwe Desa land rights. To achieve these objectives, qualitative research methods with ethnographic approach are used to understand the efforts of the community in maintaining the existence of Druwe Desa land. The results of this study indicate the potential shifting of the status of Druwe Desa land ownership that can indirectly threaten its existence. For that reason, it is necessary to strengthen the right to Druwe Desa land so that there will be no problems that can reduce the existence of asset of desa pakraman. Steps that need to be taken is the process of certification to obtain legal certainty.Keywords:   Druwe Desa land, desa pakraman, Existence, Tri Hita Karana, Awig-Awig  Intisari: Tanah Druwe Desa merupakan tanah adat yang pengelolaannya dilaksanakan dan menjadi milik desa pakraman. Meskipun sudah diakui secara yuridis, namun keberadaan tanah Druwe Desa di Bali mengalami kekosongan terkait subjek hukumnya. Atas dasar itulah, desa pakraman ditunjuk sebagai subjek hak berkenaan dengan tanah miliknya melalui Keputusan Menteri Agraria dan Tata Ruang/Kepala Badan Pertanahan Nasional Nomor 276/Kep-19.2/X/2017. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk: (1) Membuat peta sebaran tanah Druwe Desa; (2) Mendeskripsikan pentingnya penguatan hak atas tanah Druwe Desa; (3) Mendeskripsikan tata cara penguatan hak atas tanah Druwe Desa; (4) Mendeskripsikan manfaat hasil penguatan hak atas tanah Druwe Desa. Untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut, digunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan etnografi guna memahami upaya masyarakat dalam menjaga eksistensi tanah Druwe Desa. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan adanya potensi pergeseran status kepemilikan tanah Druwe Desa yang secara tidak langsung dapat mengancam eksistensinya. Untuk itu perlu dilakukan penguatan hak atas tanah Druwe Desa agar tidak terjadi permasalahan yang dapat mengurangi keberadaan aset desa pakraman tersebut. Langkah yang perlu diambil adalah proses pensertipikatan untuk mendapatkan kepastian hukum.Kata Kunci:    Tanah Druwe Desa, desa pakraman, Eksistensi, Tri Hita Karana, Awig-Awig Pendah

Form, Creation, Legal Effects

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-73
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
General Law ◽  
Royal Courts ◽  
Historical Origins

Chapter 3 has two main aims. First, it provides an overview of the legal rules governing the form, creation, and legal effects of private law orders. Second, it explains these rules, and in particular it explains why they should be understood as part of the ‘general law’ of private law rulings. In substance, this explanation is a sustained critique of the traditional approach of organising and explaining these rules according to their historical origins, that is, according to whether they originated in the Royal Courts or the Chancery Court. Chapter 3 argues that these rules reflect general remedial-law principles, principles that could have easily developed in a unitary legal system. Taken together, these aims are an important part of the book’s broader project of taking seriously the idea of remedies as a legal subject. If remedies are judicial orders, then the rules governing their form, creation, and effects are an important part of remedial law. And if remedial law merits its title, those rules ought to have common foundations.

5. The Roman Family

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-150
Author(s):  
Paul J. du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Roman Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Marriage And Divorce ◽  
Legal Personhood ◽  
The Family ◽  
Male Line ◽  
State Of Affairs

This chapter is devoted to the Roman law of persons and family. As in modern legal studies, so in Roman law, it is the first branch of private law that students are taught, primarily in order to understand the concept of ‘legal personhood’. This chapter covers the paterfamilias (head of the household); marriage and divorce; adoption; and guardianship. The head of the household was the eldest living male ancestor of a specific family. He had in his power (potestas) all descendants traced through the male line (and also exercised forms of control over other members of the household). Roman law accorded the head of the household extensive legal entitlements, not only vis-à-vis the members of the household, but also its property. The motivation of this state of affairs lies in the recognition in Roman law of the family unit as legally significant entity.

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