scholarly journals The Prospects for the Recognition of the International Legal Personality of Artificial Intelligence

Laws ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Valentina Petrovna Talimonchik
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Methods Of Synthesis ◽  
International Legal Personality ◽  
Structural Methods ◽  
Legal Entities

This research aims to identify the prospects for recognizing the international legal personality of artificial intelligence, taking into account the practice of international organizations. The article describes a new idea based on the research of the existing practice of international organizations and the application of the author’s concept of international legal personality of legal entities, enabling the identification of the main directions of recognizing the international legal personality of artificial intelligence. Using the problematic-theoretical, formal-legal, logical, systemic-structural methods and methods of synthesis, analysis, and comparison, the author revealed two solutions to the problem of recognizing the international legal personality of artificial intelligence. The first way to resolve the problem is that states may grant the legal entity rights to artificial intelligence, gradually developing an international custom. The second way is that states may conclude that artificial intelligence will be granted a legal entity’s rights or sui generis by participating in discussions organized by various international organizations. The results of the study can be used for international unification.

DEPENDENCE OF THE COMPANY'S LEGAL PERSONALITY FROM THE PERSONALITY OF ITS SHAREHOLDER AS A TREND OF LEGISLATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PRACTICE

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
MARIETTA SHAPSUGOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Limited Liability ◽  
Complete Separation ◽  
Socialist Economy ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Law And Legislation ◽  
Market Relations ◽  
Legal Entities

The concept of a legal entity as an independent legal entity, independent distinctiveness of its participants was formed gradually. In the Fatherland Law, it reached its climax in the Soviet era. It was then that such classical features of a legal entity were formulated as organizational unity, property isolation, and independent responsibility. The economic system drove this approach. In a planned socialist economy, an individual could not be the owner of the means of production, and therefore the legal personality of an enterprise was maximally alienated from a person's personality, which was reflected in its characteristics. For a long time, by inertia in Russian law and legislation, this alienation of the shareholder's personality from the legal entity's personality was preserved. The reason for the revision of this approach was the abuse by limited liability participants of legal entities controlled by them, using such a person as a "mask" for their activities and leading to a violation of creditors' interests. In this regard, with Russia's transition to market relations, an interest arose in the foreign theory of corporate law, which developed mechanisms to combat such abuses, studies of corporate forms of a legal entity, and mechanisms for bringing controllers and beneficial owners to justice were updated. The article examines the dynamics of the transformation of a legal entity's theory from dependence to independence and again to its dependence. It is argued that the shareholder's connection with the legal entity is preserved, and complete separation of the legal personality from the shareholder's personality is impossible, which is confirmed by the doctrine, law enforcement practice, and trends in the development of legislation on legal entities.

5. Personality, statehood, and recognition

2019 ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
Ilias Bantekas ◽  
Efthymios Papastavridis
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Government Capacity ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Territory Government ◽  
International Legal Personality

This chapter examines the meaning of international legal personality and the range of actors that possess such personality, namely States, international organizations, individuals, multinational corporations, and several other non-State actors. Given the centrality of States, the criteria for statehood are analysed, and both traditional and contemporary criteria are discussed. Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention is used for assessment of whether an entity satisfies these criteria which include: permanent population, a defined territory, government, capacity to enter into foreign relations, and the relevance of human rights. Competing theories regarding the role of recognition by third States as an element of statehood are also considered. Equally, the rights and duties of non-State actors are analysed in terms of capacity conferred upon them under international law.

International Organizations and the Creation of Customary International Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-233
Author(s):  
Kristina Daugirdas
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Direct Role ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Legal Questions ◽  
International Legal System ◽  
The Creation ◽  
International Legal Personality

Abstract This article argues that international organizations ‘as such’ can contribute directly to the creation of customary international law for three independent reasons. First, the states establishing an international organization may subjectively intend for that organization to be able to contribute to the creation of at least some kinds of customary international law. Second, that capacity may be an implied power of the organization. Third, that capacity may be a byproduct of other features or authorities of the international organization – specifically, the combination of international legal personality and the capacity to operate on the international plane. Affirming international organizations’ direct role in making customary international law will not dramatically change the content of customary international law or the processes by which rules of customary international law are ascertained. But recognizing that role is significant because it will reinforce other conclusions about how international organizations fit into the international legal system, including that customary international law binds international organizations. Such recognition may also shift the way lawyers within international organizations carry out their work by affecting the sources they consult when answering legal questions, the materials they make publicly available and the kinds of expertise that are understood to be necessary to discharge their responsibilities. Finally, affirming international organizations’ role in creating customary international law may make international organizations more willing to comply with those rules.

scholarly journals TO THE QUESTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGALITY OF LOCAL COMMUNITY IN THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (42) ◽  
pp. 35-61
Author(s):  
Nataliya Yakymchuk ◽  
Ganna Vlasova ◽  
Oksana Vaitsekhovska ◽  
Petro Tsymbal ◽  
Yuliia Baliuk
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
International Legal Personality ◽  
Legal Entities

The article is devoted to the issue of international legal personality of cities as subnational persons. The rapid urbanization of cities, modern processes of decentralization of power in the countries and the growth of economic globalization in the world have led to an increase in the autonomy of subnational individuals (especially such their kind as cities). The sphere of greatest manifestation of such independence is economic, within which, cities are increasingly entering into foreign economic relations not only with foreign legal entities, but also with international intergovernmental organizations and governments of foreign countries when solving economic and economic issues of local level. The rapid growth and such foreign economic activity, the legal basis of which, as a rule, are international treaties between the countries, has caused ambiguous understanding of the legal status of subnational persons and highly actualized the research of this problem in the context of determining their international legal personality. The article analyzes the doctrinal approaches to the concept of "subject of international law" and the criteria for their separation from other legal entities participating in relations with a foreign element. The basic international documents and normative legal acts of foreign countries that regulate the legal status of territorial communities of cities as subjects of local self-government and give the rights to enter into a contractual relationship on their own and in a responsible manner in a transboundary context are investigated. Exploring the forms of urban cooperation at the regional and universal levels, the following forms of networking of cities as infrastructures, which are factors of international legal regulation (aimed at economic solidarity) and political ones, in which cities often act as agents of international intergovernmental organizations, are distinguished. Based on the analysis of international documents and national legal acts regulating the legal status of subnational persons and their relations with subjects of international law, as well as domestic and foreign doctrines of international legal personality, a scientific approach to the status of cities in economic relations with a foreign element is formulated. Cities are defined as complementary (substantive) subjects of international legal relations with a special international legal personality: in the formally-legal plane they are granted the rights in foreign economic activity by the legal norms of the national law, which these relations are regulated; similarly to the states, cities (like other subnationals) are representatives of the public interest of the communities of cities; in the economic-practical plane act as independent subjects of economic relations of an international character. Illustrated signs of the rapid development of "city diplomacy", which, on the background of decentralization of authorities to territorial communities and economic globalization, led to the expansion of the scope of international legal personality in the practice of foreign economic relations and caused a gradual change in their international legal personality in international acts.

scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: ISSUES OF FUNDING OF THEIR ACTIVITY

2016 ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Анатолий Капустин ◽  
Anatoliy Kapustin
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Budget Process ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
International Court ◽  
International Rights ◽  
International Legal Personality

A few very important features of financial law of international organizations were consider in present article. The author puts forward an idea that funding of international organizations activities is an important element of the international legal personality of international organizations, because it allows them to ensure the necessary independence while executing their international rights and obligations and the exercise of their assigned functions. The main categories of financial law of international organizations were examined in article: the concept and types of incomes and expenses, the concept of budget process of the international organization in accordance with two ways of funding of international organizations settled in the XX century. Special attention was paid to the analysis of the obligations of Member States of an international organization to contribute to the organization’s budget. For these purposes, the analysis of the positions of judges of the International Court of Justice and the opinions of scientists on this issue in the context of the proceedings on certain expenses of the United Nations. The author has come to conclusion about necessity of the further study of the problems of the financial law of international organizations.

scholarly journals Administrative Legal Entities of Private Legal Entities as a Status Component of the Legal Regulation Mechanism: Characteristics of Elem

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-95
Author(s):  
V.V. Sukhonos
Keyword(s):  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Regulation Mechanism ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Legal Entities

The article is devoted to administrative legal personality, which is part of the structure of the administrative-legal personality of private legal entities. At the same time, it is argued that, on their own, the rules of law cannot influence the behavior of their addressees, therefore the only instrument by which legal regulation is used to help ensure such influence is the mechanism of legal regulation within which the functions of law are implemented, and specific life situations are addressed. It is noted that, like any state mechanism, the mechanism of legal regulation consists of the relevant elements, namely: norms of law, legal relations, and acts of realization of rights and obligations. Thus, we can conclude that the disclosure of the features of the mechanism of legal regulation is possible only if a thorough study of its elements. Thus, each state that there is no language and there can be no legal regulation, which in its nature and nature is different from other types of regulation. It should also be remembered that, at its core, legal regulation is not material but is done through the consciousness and will of the people. It is perfect. However, any ideal process cannot occur without the participation of matter. Based on all the above, it can be stated that one of the constituent parts of the mechanism of legal regulation is legal relations. It should be remembered that public relations also have an internal structure to which the subject, object, and content relate. However, the absence of at least one of the elements of the relationship automatically complicates, or even precludes their very existence. The same rule applies to the mechanism of legal regulation. Thus, the study of each of the components of the mechanism of legal regulation has the same scientific significance and importance as the study of the mechanism itself. Therefore, if we conduct a study of administrative-legal personality, then it must take into account its place and the impact on legal regulation as a whole. Legal personality nowadays also exists in administrative law, although the very concept of “legal personality”, as a certain characteristic of a legal entity, originally originated in civil law. However, it should be remembered that the method of administrative law is significantly different from civil law, and therefore the use of civil law expertise in the field of legal personality should be used with extreme caution. In his desire to ensure state control and the possibility of applying state coercion, the legislator adapted the rules of public law to the construction of a legal entity of private law. On this basis, it should be noted that different types of legal entities under private law would have different levels of administrative capacity. That is why the legal capacity of legal persons under private law can be recognized as administrative law, both social and legal capacity, and the need to be the subject of administrative-legal relations. Keywords: administrative-legal personality, legal entity, private law, mechanism of legal regulation.

scholarly journals LEGAL NATURE OF THE WORKING ARRANGEMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN BORDER AND COAST GUARD AGENCY

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Prior Approval ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
The Right ◽  
International Legal Personality ◽  
First Time

The article analyzes the content and the procedure for concluding working arrangements of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX). It is noted that, taking into account its legal personality, the Agency's partners may be third countries and international organizations with which it has the right to enter into the relevant arrangements on its own. The author draws attention to the fact that in FRONTEX’s enforcement practices there are different names of concluded agreements, but in form and content they are all working arrangements. The procedure for the negotiation and conclusion of working arrangements is analyzed and it is concluded that the EU pays serious attention to the legal instrument under consideration for cooperation with international partners. In particular, it is noted that the Commission and the Member States play a significant role in the harmonization of the text of the agreement. It is proposed to empower the European Parliament by granting it the right of prior approval of the final text of the document. The content of working arrangements concluded with third countries and international organizations is analyzed in detail and the following features are established: 1) since 2012, there is a trend to consolidate the principle of respect for human rights in agreements with third countries; 2) the agreements may contain provisions on the financial aspects of cooperation between the parties; 3) for the first time in the working arrangement with Kosovo, the provision on the exchange of personal data is enshrined; 4) certain working arrangements provide for the possibility of suspend of the agreement until the dispute is settled between the parties. It is concluded that the working arrangements are not international public treaties, because: 1) agreements with third countries directly establish that such documents do not create international obligations; 2) the agency is not endowed with the international legal personality to conclude agreements on behalf of the Union under the procedure provided for in Art. 218 TFEU; 3) the text of the document mainly contains non-binding wording. The author proposes to consider working arrangements as acts of soft law, the implementation of which leads to legal consequences. Cooperation between FRONTEX and third countries and international organizations is not limited by working arrangements and may be expanded by additional agreements.

Part 2 The United Nations: What it is, 9 Powers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Higgins Dame Rosalyn, DBE, QC ◽  
Webb Philippa ◽  
Akande Dapo ◽  
Sivakumaran Sandesh ◽  
Sloan James
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
Domestic Jurisdiction ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
International Legal Personality ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Domestic Law

This chapter examines the powers or competences of the United Nations as a separate legal entity. Its possession of legal personality, its specialized agencies, and some of the separate legal entities in the UN family are concepts that are related but distinct from the powers of these bodies. The possession of international legal personality means that these bodies have their own rights and duties, and powers vested in them in their own right. However, the possession of legal personality does not define the particular powers of the organization, nor does it mean that they have plenary competence under international law or in municipal legal systems. The chapter discusses the relationship to legal personality; nature and scope; purposes and principles of the organization; division of competence between principal organs and subsidiary organs; domestic jurisdiction limitation of Article 2(7); substantive content of powers internationally and in domestic law; consequences of ultra vires acts.

2 Legal Powers, 2.1 Interpretation of the Greco-Turkish Agreement of 1 December 1926 , Permanent Court of International Justice, Advisory Opinion, [1926] Publ. PCIJ, Series B, No. 16

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Montejo Blanca
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
First World War ◽  
International Justice ◽  
Advisory Opinion ◽  
World War ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
The First World War ◽  
International Legal Personality ◽  
First World

In 1923, Greece and Turkey entered into the Treaty of Lausanne to regulate the orderly transfer of Greek and Turkish populations displaced by the First World War. The treaty established a Mixed Arbitral Tribunal and a Mixed Commission to deal with property issues ensuing from the transfer of populations. However, a dispute arose in the implementation of the treaty which was ultimately referred to the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) for an advisory opinion. In its decision, the PCIJ sketched some of the main features of the international legal personality of international organizations and articulated the basic elements of the implied powers doctrine, thereby initiating the path towards consolidating the role of international organizations as international actors in their own right with powers beyond those strictly attributed to them by their establishing treaties. Some authors have assessed the performance of the Court in critical terms.

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