Essays about: "The legal subject"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 338 essays containing the words The legal subject.

  1. 1. "The Uphill AI Contract Challenge The Intra-Active Task: Reimagining Contracts"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Filip Seiborg Wikström; [2024-02-16]
    Keywords : AI; Contract Law; New Materialism; Karen Barad; Intra-Action; Spacetimemattering; Ethico-Onto-Epistem-Ology; Cartesian-Newtonian paradigms; Antimethodology; Agency; Machine Learning;

    Abstract : The traditional contract theories are insufficient to handle the challenges Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently causing and will continue to cause to contract law. These challenges involve problems concerning the subject/object divide, agency, the embedding of legal code into interactive programming code, and ethical aspects concerning the transfer of power away from lawyers. READ MORE

  3. 2. THE DEMOCRATIC CHAIN. Blockchain in the Context of Swedish Electoral Pro-cesses: Applying a Need-Solution Pairing approach with a lens of Legitimacy.

    University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Author : Juan Gonzalez; Mikael Tuncay; [2023-11-20]
    Keywords : Blockchain; Elections; Digitalization; Need-solution pairing; Legitimacy; E-voting; Fraud; Agile;

    Abstract : Blockchain has been studied extensively in the literature regarding its plausible application on a series of fields. In the same line, the application of Blockchain for public electoral processes has begun to be a matter of study in recent years. READ MORE

  4. 3. Unveiling the future: Exploring Sweden’s opportunities to transition to an auction-based system for offshore wind.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för marina vetenskaper

    Author : Hanna Savolainen; [2023-08-11]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The energy transition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the Russian Federation’s war on Ukraine has incentivised targets of European independence in the energy market. Offshore wind is deemed an important energy source because technological advancements have made the sector cost-efficient while producing more capacity than before. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sentient Objects — A Theoretical Analysis of the Potential of Animals as Legal Subjects

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Alice Edfast; [2023-04-26]
    Keywords : Jurisprudence; Legal theory; The legal subject; Legal personhood; The person-thing dichotomy; Animal Law theory; Animal sentience; Animal slaughter; Animal testing; Legal rights; Hohfeld’s fundamental legal conceptions; Speciesism; Humanism; Posthumanism; Greimas’ semiotic square;

    Abstract : The sentience of animals has been scientifically proven since the nineteenth century, which has led to changes in our attitude towards animals and to the proliferation of anti-cruelty laws. But despite the rise of an Animal Law discipline, animal rights organisations’ attempting to elevate the legal status of animals, and several recent European legislative changes categorising animals as “non-things”, the legal status of a person has not yet been extended to animals. READ MORE

  6. 5. Guns for Hire: A Study of The Possibilities of Attributing Unlawful Conduct of PMSCs to a Hiring State under International Law

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Clara Larsson Ljungsvik; [2023]
    Keywords : Folkrätt en. public international law ; ARSIWA; public international law; PMSC; State responsibility; Law on attribution; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Syftet med uppsatsen är att presentera möjligheter att hänföra en PMSCs (Private Military and Security Company) överträdelser av internationell rätt till en kontrakterande Stat. Uppsatsen fokuserar på relevanta bestämmelser i ARSIWA som det huvudsakliga rättsliga ramverket för Statsansvar. READ MORE