What is it about?

If we take it that corporations are persons (as many legal systems around the world do), what are the implications for their rights, morally and in law, when compared with human beings?

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Why is it important?

Important legal cases, particularly in the US, have turned on whether or not corporate people have rights equivalent to those of human people. This has led to restrictions on healthcare offerings due to a corporate person's religious beliefs, for example. It is important to establish what rights corporate persons should actually be entitled to, and why, in order to make the right legal decisions.

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This page is a summary of: The Curious Case of Ronald McDonald’s Claim to Rights: An Ontological Account of Differences in Group and Individual Person Rights, Journal of Social Ontology, February 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/jso-2016-0042.
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