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Author / Creator:Bayern, Shawn, author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
©2021
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12659313
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ISBN:9781108878203
1108878202
9781108839938
9781108813853
Notes:Includes index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 18, 2021).
Summary:"Software can already achieve a status very close to legal personhood under existing law. It can "inhabit" a business organization, letting the organization act autonomously, apart from human influence.. This is not as scary as it firsts sounds. Written by a legal theorist with a significant background in computer technology, this book on law & technology shows how existing law in the US can enable software to gain the capabilities of "legal persons," permitting it to enter into contracts, serve as a legal agent, own property, and so forth. The book introduces novel legal-transactional techniques by which these capabilities are already possible and shows how they are supported by legal doctrine and legal policy"--
Other form:Print version: Bayern, Shawn. Autonomous organizations Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108839938