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This volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological knowledge is testing the nature and structure of legal personhood. Key questions include: What do the new biosciences do to our social, cultural, and legal conceptions of personhood? How does our legal apparatus incorporate new legitimations from the emerging biosciences into its knowledge system? And what kind of ethical, socio-political, and scientific consequences are attached to the establishment of such new legalities? The book examines these problems by looking at materialities, the posthuman, and the relational in the (un)making of legalities. Themes and topics include postgenomic research, gene editing, neuroscience, epigenetics, precision medicine, regenerative medicine, reproductive technologies, border technologies, and theoretical debates in legal theory on the relationship between persons, property, and rights.

Juristic persons. --- Artificial persons --- Conventional persons --- Legal persons --- Persons, Artificial --- Persons, Conventional --- Persons, Juristic --- Persons, Legal --- Persons (Law) --- Technology—Sociological aspects. --- Law and the social sciences. --- Biomedical engineering. --- Law—Philosophy. --- Law. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Socio-legal Studies. --- Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology. --- Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History. --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Engineering --- Medicine --- Social sciences and law --- Social sciences --- Sociological jurisprudence --- Science --- Biotechnology. --- Law --- Socio-Legal Studies. --- Legal history --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- History. --- History and criticism

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This volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological knowledge is testing the nature and structure of legal personhood. Key questions include: What do the new biosciences do to our social, cultural, and legal conceptions of personhood? How does our legal apparatus incorporate new legitimations from the emerging biosciences into its knowledge system? And what kind of ethical, socio-political, and scientific consequences are attached to the establishment of such new legalities? The book examines these problems by looking at materialities, the posthuman, and the relational in the (un)making of legalities. Themes and topics include postgenomic research, gene editing, neuroscience, epigenetics, precision medicine, regenerative medicine, reproductive technologies, border technologies, and theoretical debates in legal theory on the relationship between persons, property, and rights.

Sociology of knowledge --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Law --- Human biochemistry --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- medische biochemie --- sociologie --- filosofie --- technologie --- recht

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the empirical and theoretical problems posed by the encounter between law and biology in the twenty-first century. How does biotechnology and new bioscientific knowledge affect our legal institutions, our sense of justice, and our ways of relating to one another? To answer these questions, authors Marc de Leeuw and Sonja van Wichelen examine the complex and often contested ways in which biotechnology and biological knowledge are reworked by, with, and against legal knowledge. As this book shows, recent developments in the life sciences—including molecular biology, immunology, and the neurosciences—and their applications in forensics, medicine, and agriculture test longstanding legal forms, such as property, personhood, parenthood, and (collective) identity, ultimately constituting the current field of “biolegality.” The authors argue that these biolegal contestations represent philosophical and anthropological challenges to existing understandings of exchange, self, kinship, and community. By addressing how biology and law inform new ways of relating and knowing, the book proposes a programmatic intervention, asserting the pivotal role the study of biolegality plays in advancing social and political theory.

Professional ethics. Deontology --- Sociology --- Law --- Higher education --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences --- Social medicine --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Biotechnology --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- sociologie --- technologie --- recht --- biotechnologie --- bio-ethiek --- medische ethiek --- wetenschappen --- Science --- Biotechnology. --- Bioethics. --- Law. --- Social medicine. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Health, Medicine and Society. --- Social aspects.

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Sociology of knowledge --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Law --- Human biochemistry --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- medische biochemie --- sociologie --- filosofie --- technologie --- recht