Domination and Submission. From the Idea of ‘Legal Personality’ Back to the Metaphor of the ‘Mask’
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Carlo Pelloso
Dr. Carlo Pelloso is a professor of Roman Law at the University of Verona; since 2009, he has lectured in Ancient Greek Law at the University of Padua.
Abstract
The challenging concept of legal person has evolved significantly over the centuries, rooted in the ancient Roman notion of persona as a mask or character that conferred different legal and social roles on individuals (as well super-human entities). In modern times, the concept of legal person seems even to expand beyond the human sphere to encompass a wide range of entities, including animals, artificial intelligence (AI) and the environment. This article explores the complexities and dilemmas surrounding this evolving concept, and examines the challenges and opportunities presented by the extension of the legal persona to new frontiers.
About the author
Dr. Carlo Pelloso is a professor of Roman Law at the University of Verona; since 2009, he has lectured in Ancient Greek Law at the University of Padua.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Introduction to the ‘The Spectral Nature of Intellectual Property’ Pólemos
- Focus
- The Spectre of the Machine: Finding Space for Empirical Inventions in Patent Law
- Copyright, Ghosts, Information
- Impossible Realities and Intellectual Property: Specters of Value in Amie Siegel’s Provenance
- The Emergence of Yoga-as-Property in American Law: The Haunting Presence of Commercial Logics from Swami Vivekananda to Bikram’s Hot Yoga
- Spectres of Intellectual Property in the Soviet Union: The Development and Recognition of the Inventor’s Certificate
- “A Name Which to Them is Sacred”: Quakers and Religious Trademarks in American Enterprise
- Schrödinger’s Rose: Indeterminacy and Contingent Futures in the Plant Variety Rights System of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Non-singular Logics of Intellectual Property in Biomedical Innovation
- Spectral Shadows in Scientific Practice: Unveiling the Haunting Effects of Authorship and Scientific Capital Accumulation
- Research
- Domination and Submission. From the Idea of ‘Legal Personality’ Back to the Metaphor of the ‘Mask’
- “The Whore That Lost Everything”: The Tyranny of Law and the Queer Feminisation of Soft Power as Explored in Black Sails
- Book Review
- Ian Ward: The Trials of Charles I
