A Study of the Philosophical Bases and Normative Implications of the Conventionalist Concept of Artificial Person

本研究项目关注现代民族国家的人权保障与主权概念之间的规范关系，并指出必须在国际社会的背景下看待民主进程或国家法人的核心。鉴于这些发现，该项目明确表明，现代民族国家作为人造人的民主决策过程的性质不仅需要从传统的国内社会契约框架的角度进行分析，而且还需要从国际法中的自决原则或不干涉原则的角度进行分析。

This research project has focused attention on the normative relationship between the human-rights protection by the modern nation-states and the concept of sovereignty and noted that it is important to see the democratic process, or the core of the juristic personhood of the state, within the context of international society. In the light of these findings, this project made it clear that the nature of the democratic decision-making process of the modern national-state as an artificial person needs to be analyzed not only from the perspective of a traditional domestic framework of social contract but also in terms of the principle of self-determination, or the non-interference principle, in the international law.