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Oct 31, 2022 · Various norms pre- and proscribe conduct with bodies, ranging from inflicting physical harm to consent and rules about various medical procedures. The body has been, and still is, a site of contestation, of political struggles, and civil rights litigation.
Oct 31, 2022 · The body is precondition of human existence and reference point of many legal norms. But the law only rarely asks what the body is more precisely. Answers might appear evident, but...
- Christoph Bublitz
Oct 31, 2022 · The body is precondition of human existence and reference point of many legal norms. But the law only rarely asks what the body is more precisely. Answers might appear evident, but commonsensical conceptions of the body have been cast into doubt by feminists, artists, and disability theorists.
Nov 23, 2012 · The theory blends legal theory, the neuroscience of empathy, and biosemiotics, a branch of semiotics that combines semiotics with theoretical biology. Our theory posits that this symbolism of the body is not solely a metaphor or semiotic sign of how law is cognitively structured in the mind.
- Gail Bruner Murrow, Richard W. Murrow
- 2013
Jan 1, 2017 · The study of law and biology combines six theories: it is, at once, a theory of individual behaviour, of ethology, of history, of communications, of games, and of philosophy and morals.
- William H. Rodgers
May 15, 2011 · In A Biological Theory of Law, Hendrik Gommer (2011) argued that the law is grounded in biological mechanisms to serve survival and reproduction. The behavior of each organism...
Jan 22, 2023 · I claim that there are laws in biology. In particular, there are laws in evolutionary theory. And, there are also genuinely biological laws throughout the discipline from cellular dynamics, to normal growth and development, and on to animal and even plant behavior.
