Over at Concurring Opinions, I have a post entitled Artificial Agents, Zombies, and Legal Personhood in an online symposium on A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, by Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White. There is a terrific lineup, including Ken Anderson, Ryan Calo, James Grimmelmann, Sonia Katyal, Ian Kerr, Andrea Matwyshyn, Deborah DeMott, Paul Ohm, Ugo Pagallo, Ramesh Subramanian and Harry Surden.
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- Retributive Justice and the Demands of Democratic Citizenship by Dan Markel
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