Liminality and the Law: Interrogating Jurisprudence Throughout the Liminal Life Cycle

法律的框架往往依赖于在有界限的范畴内适用的监管对象有效运作。这种孤立的方法延伸到卫生法，在卫生法中，针对人体的法律的分析经常将个人置于二元结构中，例如人或财产。虽然务实，这种方法是不够的反射性的生活和体现的经验，许多行动者。法律的人经常占据“中间”的空间，存在着无形的实体。这个研究项目鼓励法律被告知的阈限。如果在设计监管架构时明确考虑到阈限性，法律的规则可能会更好地反映其所管辖的人，阈限性将被完善，成为关键的法律的分析工具。这些目标同样重要，而且越来越重要。随着生物技术发展的加速，它们使人类走上了一条通往人体（以及“人类”的含义）的轨道，变得更加碎片化，复杂化和边缘化。随着新的医疗干预措施重塑了我们的受孕、出生、成长、衰老和死亡方式，人类生命不再符合整洁的法律的类别的问题将变得更加严重。技术有能力改造人类，因此人类生存的边界充其量已经变得不精确，最坏的情况是有争议。如果边界不可避免地被打破和模糊，我们就必须开发足够和适当的工具来应对。

Legal frameworks tend to rely on the objects of regulation fitting within bounded categories to function effectively. This siloed approach extends to health law, where legal analyses directed towards the human body often situate individualswithin binary constructions, such as persons or property. Though pragmatic, this approach is insufficiently reflexive of the lived and embodied experiences of many actors. Legal persons regularly occupy the spaces 'in-between', existing asliminal entities. This research project encourages law to be informed by liminality. By expressly considering liminality when designing regulatory architecture, legal rules might better reflect the persons they govern, and liminality would berefined as a tool for critical legal analysis. These ends are of equal and growing importance. As biotechnological developments accelerate, they have set humankind on a trajectory which heads towards the human body (and what it means to be 'human') becoming more fragmented, complex, and liminal. This problem of human lives no longer fitting into neat legal categories is set to become exacerbated as new medical interventions reshape our ways of conceiving,being born, growing, aging, and dying. Technology has the capacity to remake the human, and consequently the borders of human existence have become imprecise at best, and contested at worst. If the boundaries are to be inevitablypushed and blurred, we must develop sufficient and appropriate tools to respond.