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Conceiving Life: On Socio-Legal Fictions and the Making of Law’s Persons

Law, Culture and the Humanities

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Abstract

Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print.
This article explores how ‘life’ – the fetus, the person and our relations to one another – is ‘conceived’ in reproductive law and politics through the use of socio-legal fictions. Rather than operating as neutral, technical devices, I argue that legal ...