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Yen Hoang Tute #3 - Legal Personality Often we speak of the rules which govern our society as the law, how it grants us rights, protects us from injustice, or demands from us certain responsibilities as if it is a powerful creature with a life of its own. This kind of rhetoric presents law as less of a human creation, a tool for society to enforce its morals, and more of an autonomous system with its own purposes and in furthering those purposes, can specify who or what counts and who or what does not count. In this way, it seems as if moral and philosophical norms of society do not dictate who the law can act upon, but it is the law itself which "peoples its world"1. The assumption is that it is possible for the law to identify who its subjects or objects are, more clearly, who are legal persons,...

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