ABSTRACT
This book offers an excursus on legal subjectivity and citizenship in law, both underpinned by various notions of personhood, identity and belonging. The themes of personhood and subjectivity, long the subject of debates within the humanities,2 are approached in this volume from the perspective of law; each chapter asks how a person is constructed in law and what it means to be ‘a legal person’. While the contributors are, by no means, the first to consider these questions,3 the volume engages with a legacy of critical theory which warns against taking the objective foundations of law and rights for granted and ignoring questions that have to do with subjectivity.
