[JUDICIAL REVIEW] Public Thread: Right of Bots

[Zukchiva]

Public Thread for the Judicial Review “Rights of Bots”

The Conclave acknowledges the request for Judicial Review as submitted by Citizen Vussul.

@The Request Summary

No laws were brought alongside the presented question.

The legal question given is the following: Do bots legally qualify as residents and have the same rights conferred as humans?

The following procedures will be followed. The Conclave shall, according to its standing orders, convene to determine whether to confirm or deny this request. If accepted, the Conclave will follow the appropriate procedures of Judicial Reviews as follows:

2.3. Judicial Review shall take place following a request by a resident with a confirmation vote by the Conclave or at an Arbiter’s request within a week of a change to regional law being passed (with the Arbiter’s request concerning said change).

2.4. Upon receipt of request, the Viceroy shall initiate public and private threads which outline the bill in its entirety, along with the end-date for the deliberation of the law.

a. The public thread shall be available for citizens to refer precedent or applicable laws to the Conclave, but the Viceroy may delete posts that are disruptive and do not contribute to the matter at hand.

b. The private thread shall contain the deliberations of the Conclave and be used to draft verdicts and debate the law.

c. The Conclave may reverse its decision to hold a Review with a vote at any time during this time period. In such cases, the Conclave shall provide a reasoning as to why in the public thread.

d. The Viceroy shall post updates every week in the public thread on the general on-goings of the Review in Closed Chambers, such as if a draft verdict has been written or other general conduct.

e. If no discussion occurs within Closed Chambers on a Review for more than 60 days, the Review shall automatically be closed and stated as such in the public thread.

2.5. The Review shall rule on the interpretation or constitutional validity of a law (or interpretation of the Concordat itself), factoring the Concordat, all applicable statutory laws, precedent of the court, and traditional values of The East Pacific for their deliberations.

[Zukchiva]

This Review has been confirmed by a 3/3 vote of Arbiters and is now under deliberation.

As per Section 2.4.a. of the SOC, Citizens are welcome to bring forth relevant laws/precedent to the Conclave (can go as far as a brief on your own legal arguments if you wish, as is traditional).

[Zukchiva]

Day late but per the mandated SOC weekly update, the content of a potential verdict has been written, just needs to be formatted into a draft verdict and go to vote. Will try getting that process moved forwatd in a few days.

[Wallenburg]

The Concordat defines Residents as “individual[s] with one or more nations residing within The East Pacific Region.” Necessarily, individuals are not nations themselves. The plain meaning of “individuals” here is the person operating a nation account. A person running a bot account is therefore a Resident. The bot itself is not a Resident, but rather the nation which confers Resident status upon the person.