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

法律框架往往依赖于符合有限类别的监管对象才能有效发挥作用。这种孤立的做法延伸到卫生法，针对人体的法律分析往往将个人置于人或财产等二元结构中。尽管这种方法很实用，但它不能充分反映许多参与者的生活和具体经历。法人经常占据“中间”的空间，即现有的独立实体。这项研究项目鼓励通过有限来告知法律。通过在设计监管架构时明确考虑限制，法律规则可能会更好地反映它们所管理的人，而限制将被视为批判性法律分析的工具。这些目标同等重要，而且日益重要。随着生物技术发展的加速，它们使人类走上了一条走向人体(以及作为“人类”意味着什么)的轨道，变得更加支离破碎、复杂和有限。随着新的医疗干预重塑我们的受孕、出生、成长、衰老和死亡的方式，人类生活的这个问题不再符合整洁的法律范畴，将变得更加严重。技术具有重塑人类的能力，因此，往好了说，人类生存的边界变得不精确，往坏了说，人类生存的边界变得争论不休。如果要使边界不可避免地变得模糊和模糊，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.