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Ciepley, D. (2013). Beyond Public and Private: Toward a Political Theory of the Corporation. American Political Science Review, 107, 139-158.
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• TITLE: Image of the Beast: Legal Personhood, Autonomous Entities, and the Hermeneutics of Institutional Fiction

  AUTHORS: Ciprian Florin Pater

  KEYWORDS: Legal Personhood, Corporate Personhood, Autonomous Companies, GDPR Article 22, New Public Management, Legal Hermeneutics, Institutional Semantics, Algorithmic Accountability

  JOURNAL NAME: Beijing Law Review, Vol.17 No.4, November 10, 2026

  ABSTRACT: This paper develops a legal-sociological account of legal personhood as an institutional and normative category whose justification is interpretively contestable, while acknowledging that within any given jurisdiction statutes and binding precedent supply determinate positive-law answers in decided cases. Through a genealogy of corporate personhood, an analysis of the 2026 Argentine draft that would attach personality to fully autonomous companies, a hermeneutic reading of maritime jurisdictional metaphor, and a critique of the New Public Management logic that can constrain, relocate, or automate administrative discretion, the paper proposes a triadic framework—Image, Mark, and Sovereignty—for tracking how representational systems mediate consequential decisions about biological persons. The framework is offered as a proposed operationalisation with specified decision domains, jurisdictions, unit of analysis, and a disconfirmation criterion, rather than as an already-falsifiable theory. See Section 51 for the full integrated statement.