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Legal personality of robots, corporations, idols and chimpanzees: a quest for legitimacy
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“It is a kind of pretense in which legal systems can decide to engage, regardless of whether an entity really is a person (See examples in Solaiman 2017, pp. 3–4).”
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“To solve this problem, this article does not advocate that systems should be granted full legal-personhood [10] [64] [69] as this will come with a host of other problems, such as its being able to own property, sue (as well as being sued), and have its own legal rights.”
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- Authors
- Solaiman, S. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Wollongong (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Solaiman, S. M.
- ORCID
- Solaiman, S. M.
- Venue
- Artificial Intelligence and Law
- Published
- 2016-11-14
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 155-179
- ISSN
- 0924-8463 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-8382
- OpenAlex
- W2550953130
- Semantic Scholar
- 68f9887afdbe992e41d6eee4208ab15c2d51cdcf
- Cited by
- 221
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 36 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 5
- FWCI
- 69.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Artificial Intelligence and Law (publishedVersion)
- Research Online (University of Wollongong) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Health and Safety Executive
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Law › Literary and Philosophical Studies
- Social Sciences › Law › Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
- Social Sciences › Law › Animal Law and Welfare
- Keywords
- legal personality, robots, industrial robots, corporate personality, idols, animal personality, personhood, liability, autonomous robots
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