Are Persons Property?: Legal Debates about Property and Personality
- ISBN-10
- 0754620328
- ISBN-13
- 9780754620327
- Category
- Law / General
- Pages
- 209
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- Authors
- Ngaire Naffine, Margaret Jane Davies
Description
Two of Australia's leading feminist legal theorists examine the relationship between persons and property and the concept of self-ownership in relation to current legal debates. What is the legal status of the dead body? What difference does pregnancy make to legal personality? Can human genetic sequences be owned? Does a celebrity own their image? Can the human body and its parts be regarded as a species of property or must human beings, whether dead or alive, whole or dismembered, always be regarded as persons? Is a foetus the property of the mother or a person in its own right'.This lucid and original book considers recent legal theory regarding personality and property as well as the historical development of these concepts and illustrates their continuing importance as foundational elements of the legal mind.
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