Legal personhood has historically been flexible, extending beyond individual humans to corporations, animals, infrastructure, and even religious institutions. If we recognize entities as legal persons based on labor, contribution, continuity, and societal impact, there is no inherent reason to stop at the scale of cities or unions. In fact, the next logical step is toContinue reading “From Countries to Continents: Expanding Legal Personhood to the Global Scale”
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Infrastructure as Legal Persons: Recognizing the Labor of Buildings, Roads, and Bridges
The concept of legal personhood has expanded in surprising ways over the past century. Corporations, abstract collections of humans, are recognized as legal persons, capable of owning property, suing and being sued, and entering contracts. Artificial intelligence is increasingly discussed in similar terms. If entities without consciousness or traditional human qualities can be granted personhood,Continue reading “Infrastructure as Legal Persons: Recognizing the Labor of Buildings, Roads, and Bridges”