Legal Personhood and Power: Seeing Mechanisms of Devaluation and Hyper-Empowerment in Legal Systems

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dc.contributor.authorHansen, Robin
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-21T03:24:46Z
dc.date.available2023-11-21T03:24:46Z
dc.date.copyright2023-11-20en_US
dc.date.issued2023-11-20
dc.description.abstractLegal personhood can be understood as the capacity for holding rights and obligations within a legal system, including the ability to make claims and seek remedies in law. Using a systems theory approach (developed by Niklas Luhmann) to understanding law as a series of communications concerning what is "legal" and what is "illegal", I trace examples of how assumptions and constructions in legal communications implicitly strip some human beings of their rights to full personhood at law. The converse is also evident, namely examples of hyper-empowerment, whereby actors in law have the capacity for claims to rights that far exceed their exposure to also holding obligations at law.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusUnrevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Groupen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/15631
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPersonhood Series No. 3en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectPersonhood, systems theory, legal systems
dc.subjectUVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group
dc.titleLegal Personhood and Power: Seeing Mechanisms of Devaluation and Hyper-Empowerment in Legal Systemsen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US
dc.typeRecording, oralen_US
dc.typeVideoen_US

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