ABSTRACT
This paper summarizes the Radial Conception of legal personhood in seven theses. On this view, legal personhood resists checklist definitions; it is a category anchored in a paradigmatic central case formed by the convergence of entrenched (and idealised) models of the world. This structure yields prototype effects, establishing the central case as a cognitive reference point-a default benchmark for reasoning about legal personhood. The salience of the central casetogether with the human mind’s imaginative, embodied modes of categorisationshapes, but does not fix, the motivated pathways by which legal personhood extends to peripheral entities serving analogous institutional functions.
Novelli, Claudio, The Radial Conception of Legal Personhood in Seven Theses (August 22, 2025).
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