Identity, Personhood and the Law : Charles Foster and Jonathan Herring. Springer, 2017: ISBN 978-3-319-53458-9: 70 pp
The law tends to think that there is no difficulty about identifying humans. When someone is born, her name is entered into a statutory register. She is ‘X’ in the eyes of the law. At some point, ‘X’ will die and her name will be recorded in another register. If anyone suggested that the second X wa...
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