Legal Personhood in the Anthropocene
An ESG Approach to Legal Recognition
$157.53
- Paperback
126 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2026
Summary
Claims to legal personhood have expanded dramatically beyond traditional boundaries to encompass rivers, future generations, and potentially artificial intelligence and animals. Yet many such initiatives fail, collapsing into symbolic gestures without practical effect. This book argues that these failures stem not only from fragmented approaches that privilege one dimension—environmental protection, governance efficiency, or social equity—while neglecting others, but also from treating legal …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783032413604 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3032413605 |
| Author: | Ben Chester Cheong |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Imprint: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 126 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 155mm x 235mm |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Law |
Ben Chester Cheong
Dr Ben Chester Cheong is a Singaporean legal scholar whose work explores how law must adapt to profound changes in humanity’s relationship with nature, technology and future generations.
A dual-qualified lawyer in Singapore and England & Wales, he is:
- A Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) based at the University of Cambridge.
- Law Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences.
- An Associate Academic Fellow at the National University of Singapore Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL).
- A Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading School of Law.
He holds both a PhD and LLM from the University of Cambridge, and a LLB (First Class Honours) from the University of Exeter. He also placed 3rd out of 664 candidates, with 3 distinctions, in the 2016 Singapore Bar Examinations (Part B), and was the highest-ranking Cambridge law graduate of that cohort.
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