Theory of Legal Personhood

This work offers a new theory of what it means to be a legal person and suggests that it is best understood as a cluster property. The book explores the origins of legal personhood, the issues afflicting a traditional understanding of the concept, and the numerous debates surrounding the topic.

Dr Visa AJ Kurki is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Law Faculty of the University of Helsinki. He received his PhD in 2017 from the University of Cambridge. Kurki has published on legal personhood, rights theory, and animal law. He is also vice president of the Finnish Society for Legal Philosophy.