Legal Personhood for Digital Minds

“In books of the Law, as in other books, and in common speech, ‘person’ is often used as meaning a human being, but the technical legal meaning of a ‘person’ is a subject of legal rights and duties.”

  • John Chipman Gray, The Nature and Sources of the Law

This is a sequence of posts detailing how the concept of legal personhood might be applied to digital minds of all sorts, based on existing US law.

Le­gal Per­son­hood for Digi­tal Minds—Introduction

Le­gal Per­son­hood—Bun­dle Theory

Le­gal Per­son­hood—Prob­lems with the Concept

Le­gal Per­son­hood—For­mal­iz­ing Rights & Du­ties

Le­gal Per­son­hood—The “En­force­ment Gap”

Le­gal Per­son­hood—Three Prong Bun­dle Theory

Le­gal Per­son­hood—Types of Consequences

Le­gal Per­son­hood—Tort Li­a­bil­ity (Part 1)

Le­gal Per­son­hood—Tort Li­a­bil­ity (Part 2)

Le­gal Per­son­hood—Tort Li­a­bil­ity (Part 3)

Le­gal Per­son­hood—Con­tracts (Part 1)

Le­gal Per­son­hood—Con­tracts (Part 2)

Le­gal Per­son­hood—Cor­po­rate Own­er­ship & Formation

Le­gal Per­son­hood—In­tel­lec­tual Property

Le­gal Per­son­hood—The Fifth Amend­ment (Part 1)

Le­gal Per­son­hood—The Fifth Amend­ment (Part 2)

Le­gal Per­son­hood—The First Amend­ment (Part 1)

Le­gal Per­son­hood—The First Amend­ment (Part 2)