Private Law Theory

Legal Personhood in Private Law aims to examine questions concerning the nature of legal personhood in private law. Questions to be addressed include: the concept of legal personhood as such; the relationship between private and public law in attributions of personhood and/or delineation of legal concept(s) of personhood; the kind(s) and salient characteristics of individuals and groups treated as legal persons in private law; hard cases in the attribution of legal personhood (eg, liminal personhood); the doctrinal implications of, and wider functional significance held by, legal personhood in systems of private law; differences between civil and common law renderings of legal personhood; and the relationship between legal concept(s) of personhood and moral, theological, and/or cultural concepts of personhood … (more)