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LEGACY examines the concept of legal agency, challenging traditional views that exclude individuals with cognitive disabilities and artificial intelligences. The project aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of agency in law, exploring its historical context and contemporary debates.
The distinction between agents and non-agents is central in law: only agents can decide about their affairs, enter contracts or be held responsible for their actions.
Western law has since the 19th century relied on an understanding of agency that has developed in the liberal tradition of thought.
According to this Liberal Agency, agents are highly rational human individuals.
Persons with cognitive disabilities, artificial intelligences, and nonhuman animals are therefore not agents because of t…
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