Rätt subjekt? - En undersökning av rättssubjektet och rättssubjektiviteten med utgångspunkt i Visa Kurkis the bundle theory of legal personhood
(2020) JURM02 20202Department of Law
Faculty of Law
- Abstract
- The past decades new kinds of entities have been recognised as legal persons. This global development in law have led to an increased academic interest in the concepts of legal person and legal personhood and what it is that defines these concepts.
The thesis explores legal personhood through one of the latest theories on the subject, the bundle theory of legal personhood of Visa Kurki. It does so by investigating how this theory relates to earlier definitions of legal persons and legal personhood, how the theory classifies three different legal persons - the Swedish state, the Swedish local municipalities and Te Awa Tupua – and their legal personhood and, finally, what we might gain or lose by using the theory for understanding legal... (More) - The past decades new kinds of entities have been recognised as legal persons. This global development in law have led to an increased academic interest in the concepts of legal person and legal personhood and what it is that defines these concepts.
The thesis explores legal personhood through one of the latest theories on the subject, the bundle theory of legal personhood of Visa Kurki. It does so by investigating how this theory relates to earlier definitions of legal persons and legal personhood, how the theory classifies three different legal persons - the Swedish state, the Swedish local municipalities and Te Awa Tupua – and their legal personhood and, finally, what we might gain or lose by using the theory for understanding legal persons and legal personhood.
In short, the results are as follows:
Kurki´s theory develops earlier definitions of legal persons as bundles of rights and duties. It differs from these theories, however, by denying the existence of an exact border between legal persons and legal non-persons, even if a border for which entities that potentially can be legal persons is claimed to exist. The theory furthermore makes (partly) new distinctions by separating right-holders from legal persons, legal platforms from legal persons, legal subjecthood from legal personhood and different kinds of legal persons from each other. Legal personhood is divided into separated but interconnected active and passive incidents.
All the examined legal persons are classified as different kinds of legal person by the theory. The examined legal persons are also found to be endowed with the majority of the incidents of legal personhood and the theory turns out to be useful in distinguishing both clear and less clear aspects of the legal personhood of these legal persons. However, the theory fails in describing all aspects of the (more or less) public legal persons that are examined.
By using the theory, a better and more nuanced understanding of legal persons and legal personhood can be gained, though given that the theory is developed and used in the right way. The thesis objects against some parts of the theory, among others the claim that none of the incidents of legal personhood are necessary for an entity’s recognition as legal person, the definition of some of the incidents and the terminology regarding some of the distinctions that are made. At the same time, the theory offers a good foundation for understanding legal persons and legal personhood through all the distinctions that it makes and through the incidents of legal personhood that are identified. A foundation that can be developed and which not necessarily requires that the more (morally) controversial parts of the theory are accepted. (Less) - Abstract (Swedish)
- De senaste decenniernas juridiska utveckling där nya sorters entiteter erkänns status som rättssubjekt har aktualiserat frågan om vad som egentligen definierar ett rättssubjekt och vad rättssubjektivitet, de rättsliga positioner som rättssubjekt typiskt sett kan inneha, egentligen innebär.
Uppsatsen använder sig av en av de senaste teorierna i ämnet, Visa Kurkis the bundle theory of legal personhood, och undersöker hur denna teori förhåller sig till tidigare definitioner av rättssubjekt och rättssubjektivitet, hur tre olika rättssubjekt - staten, kommunerna och Te Awa Tupua - och deras rättssubjektivitet kan klassificeras med hjälp av teorin och, slutligen, vad vi kan vinna och förlora på att använda teorin för att förstå rättssubjekt... (More) - De senaste decenniernas juridiska utveckling där nya sorters entiteter erkänns status som rättssubjekt har aktualiserat frågan om vad som egentligen definierar ett rättssubjekt och vad rättssubjektivitet, de rättsliga positioner som rättssubjekt typiskt sett kan inneha, egentligen innebär.
Uppsatsen använder sig av en av de senaste teorierna i ämnet, Visa Kurkis the bundle theory of legal personhood, och undersöker hur denna teori förhåller sig till tidigare definitioner av rättssubjekt och rättssubjektivitet, hur tre olika rättssubjekt - staten, kommunerna och Te Awa Tupua - och deras rättssubjektivitet kan klassificeras med hjälp av teorin och, slutligen, vad vi kan vinna och förlora på att använda teorin för att förstå rättssubjekt och rättssubjektivitet.
Uppsatsen kommer huvudsakligen fram till följande:
Kurkis teori bygger vidare på tidigare definitioner av rättssubjekt som komplex av rättigheter och skyldigheter. Tillskillnad från tidigare teorier menar Kurkis teori att ingen exakt gräns mellan rättssubjekt och icke-rättssubjekt finns, även om det finns en gräns för vilka entiteter som potentiellt kan vara rättssubjekt. Teorin gör vidare åtskillnad mellan rättighetsbärare och rättssubjekt, juridisk plattform och rättssubjekt, rättighetssubjekt och rättssubjekt och olika sorters rättssubjekt, samt delar in rättssubjektiviteten i olika aktiva och passiva rättssubjektiva komponenter.
Alla de undersökta rättssubjekten klassificeras som rättssubjekt av teorin. De undersökta rättssubjekten innehar de flesta av de rättssubjektiva komponenter som teorin identifierat och teorin visar sig vara användbar för att peka på både klara och oklara aspekter av dessa rättssubjekts rättssubjektivitet. Det framkommer dock att teorin inte räcker till för att beskriva alla aspekter av de (mer eller mindre) offentligrättsliga subjekt som undersöks.
Genom att använda teorin kan vi få en mer nyanserad och bättre förståelse av rättssubjekt och rättssubjektivitet, dock under förutsättningar att teorins används på rätt sätt och utvecklas. Det går att invända mot vissa delar av teorin, bland annat påståendet om att vissa av de rättssubjektiva komponenterna i sig inte är nödvändiga för rättslig subjektivitet, att ingen exakt gräns finns mellan rättssubjekt och icke-rättssubjekt, hur vissa av de rättssubjektiva komponenterna definieras och mot en del av de benämningar som ges de olika distinktioner som görs. Samtidigt erbjuder teorin en bra grund för förståelsen av rättssubjekt och rättssubjektivitet genom de olika åtskillnader som görs och de olika rättssubjektiva komponenter som identifieras. En grund som går att vidareutveckla och som inte nödvändigtvis kräver att de mer (moraliskt) kontroversiella delarna av teorin accepteras. (Less)
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- author
- Hermansson, Johan LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Subjects of Law - An investigation of legal persons and legal personhood based in the bundle theory of legal personhood of Visa Kurki
- course
- JURM02 20202
- year
- 2020
- type
- H3 - Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
- subject
- keywords
- allmän rättslära, jurisprudence, rättsvetenskap, law, Kurki, rättssubjekt, rättssubjektivitet, legal person, legal personhood, Te Awa Tupua, Whanganui, staten, kommunerna
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9033646
- date added to LUP
- 2021-01-21 14:10:54
- date last changed
- 2021-01-21 14:10:54
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The thesis explores legal personhood through one of the latest theories on the subject, the bundle theory of legal personhood of Visa Kurki. It does so by investigating how this theory relates to earlier definitions of legal persons and legal personhood, how the theory classifies three different legal persons - the Swedish state, the Swedish local municipalities and Te Awa Tupua – and their legal personhood and, finally, what we might gain or lose by using the theory for understanding legal persons and legal personhood.
In short, the results are as follows:
Kurki´s theory develops earlier definitions of legal persons as bundles of rights and duties. It differs from these theories, however, by denying the existence of an exact border between legal persons and legal non-persons, even if a border for which entities that potentially can be legal persons is claimed to exist. The theory furthermore makes (partly) new distinctions by separating right-holders from legal persons, legal platforms from legal persons, legal subjecthood from legal personhood and different kinds of legal persons from each other. Legal personhood is divided into separated but interconnected active and passive incidents.
All the examined legal persons are classified as different kinds of legal person by the theory. The examined legal persons are also found to be endowed with the majority of the incidents of legal personhood and the theory turns out to be useful in distinguishing both clear and less clear aspects of the legal personhood of these legal persons. However, the theory fails in describing all aspects of the (more or less) public legal persons that are examined.
By using the theory, a better and more nuanced understanding of legal persons and legal personhood can be gained, though given that the theory is developed and used in the right way. The thesis objects against some parts of the theory, among others the claim that none of the incidents of legal personhood are necessary for an entity’s recognition as legal person, the definition of some of the incidents and the terminology regarding some of the distinctions that are made. At the same time, the theory offers a good foundation for understanding legal persons and legal personhood through all the distinctions that it makes and through the incidents of legal personhood that are identified. A foundation that can be developed and which not necessarily requires that the more (morally) controversial parts of the theory are accepted.}},
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