Call for Chapters: Book on Post-Human Legalities

About the Book

In a world where the boundaries between human and machine, natural and synthetic, are rapidly dissolving, legal systems are entering an era of unprecedented complexity. “Post-Human Legalities: Sentient Systems and Speculative Jurisprudence” is an edited volume that explores the profound transformations that law must undergo in response to emerging post- human realities.

From artificial intelligence and robotics to biotechnology, digital governance, and virtual economies, this book investigates the challenges and opportunities posed by the rise of sentient systems and autonomous entities. It examines how existing legal doctrines, rooted in human-centric principles, interact with the speculative futures of law, including AI personhood, bioengineered life forms, and the metaverse.

Theme

How Law interacts with Space Law, Post-Human Frontiers, AI, Robotics, Biotechnology, Virtual Spaces, and Post-Human Ethics?

Sub themes

Including but not limited to:

• Space Law and Post-Human Frontiers
  • Property and Space Resource Exploitation in Celestial Territories
  • Jurisdiction, Sovereignty, and Legal Personhood in Space
  • Bioethics, Human Enhancement, and Space Colonization
  • Environmental Governance and Orbital Sustainability
• AI and Autonomous Systems in Outer Space
  • Autonomous and Sentient Systems in Outer Space
  • AI in Space: AI-operated rovers, drones, and satellites in space missions
  • AI-Driven Military and Security Risks in Outer Space
• Artificial Intelligence and Legal Personhood
  • AI as a legal entity: Liability and accountability of autonomous systems
  • Ethical and constitutional implications of AI decision-making
  • Comparative approaches to AI regulation and governance
• Robotics, Automation, and Human Rights
  • Balancing innovation and the right to work in the age of automation
  • Algorithmic bias, discrimination, and equality before law
  • Human–robot interaction and the future of tort and criminal liability
• Speculative Jurisprudence and Emerging Legal Theories
  • Post-human jurisprudence: Reimagining law beyond the human subject
  • Legal fictions in a world of sentient systems
  • Law and philosophy in an age of artificial consciousness
• Intellectual Property and Technological Creativity
  • AI-generated works and the future of copyright and patents
  • NFTs, metaverse assets, and virtual property rights
  • Protection of traditional knowledge and bio-digital innovations
• Data, Privacy, and Cyber Governance in Post-Human Societies
  • Cross-border data regulation and AI-driven surveillance
  • Big Tech, predictive analytics, and consumer protection
  • Digital identity, blockchain governance, and virtual citizenship
• Biotechnology, Bioethics, and Legal Frontiers
  • Gene editing, CRISPR, and the regulation of human enhancement
  • Legal status of bioengineered or synthetic life forms
  • Bioethical challenges in post-human medical law
• Environmental and Climate Law in the Age of Sentient Systems
  • Role of AI and IoT in environmental governance
  • Climate change litigation with post-human participation (e.g., AI environmental monitoring)
  • Legal status of nature and ecosystems in speculative jurisprudence
• Post-Human Criminal Law and Liability
  • Autonomous weapons, AI-driven crimes, and international humanitarian law
  • Defining culpability for actions of self-learning systems
  • Jurisdictional and enforcement challenges in a post-human society
• Future of Dispute Resolution and Judicial Innovation
  • AI-assisted adjudication and online dispute resolution
  • Predictive justice and algorithmic decision-making in courts
  • International arbitration in cross-border tech and AI disputes
• Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Speculative Futures
  • Sociology of post-human law and ethics
  • Interplay between philosophy, science fiction, and legal imagination
  • Preparing legal systems for speculative and unforeseen transformations

Submission Guidelines

• The Manuscript should not exceed 3500-word limit.
• Authors are expected to directly submit their full papers.
• Author(s) should not mention their personal details at any places in the Manuscript. Personal Details and Institutional Affiliations should be mentioned in a separate cover letter.
• All headings in the manuscripts should be properly formatted.
• The main body text in the manuscript must be in Times New Roman in a font size of 12, 1.5 line spacing and in justified alignment. For footnotes, maintain Times New Roman Style with a font size of 10 and 1.0 line spacing. For Headings, Times New Roman style must be followed with a font size of 14 and must be Bold and underlined.
• Footnotes should conform to JILI Citation Format.
• Manuscripts are to be submitted in .doc format. No other format would be accepted.
• A maximum of 3 authors is allowed.
• Plagiarism of more than 20% shall not be acceptable by any means. The Manuscript should also be free from grammatical, spelling and other errors.
• The acceptance of the Manuscript shall be sent on a rolling basis.

How to Submit?

• Authors should email their original and unpublished Manuscript in .doc or .docx format.
• “Name of the Author(s)_Title of the Manuscript.” shall be the subject line of the email.
• Please enclose the cover letter along with the Manuscript.
• Submissions shall be made at: alspcallforchapter@gmail.com

Fee

• Students and Faculty Members, Amity Law School, Amity University Punjab: NIL
• Students and Faculty Members, Amity University: INR 500
• Others (Students, Academicians, Research Scholars, Professionals): INR 800
• Additional Co-Authors: INR 500

Important dates

• Last date for submission of Full Manuscript: 10th September, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection of the Full Manuscript: 12th September, 2025
• Tentative Date of Book Release: 30th September, 2025
• Acceptance/ Rejection email shall be sent on a rolling basis up to 12th September 2025.

Contact

For any queries, reach out to us via email at: alspcallforchapter@gmail.com or through WhatsApp at: +91- 8252343482.