What is a human? What makes human life what it is? In the 21st Century, potential answers come from innumerable fields of science, social science, philosophy or religion-above all after recent dramatic advances in biomedicine, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. Yet for the vast majority of history, law and legal thought were central to the definition of the human in Western cultures. From Roman Law's definition of the 'person' through to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, law has offered shifting but reliable definitions of the human, in at least three ways: through the normative content of rules, through the juridical conception of political community, subject and government, and through specific interpretative methods that defined the pursuit of justice. Today, all three have been decentred from popular understandings of human life. Yet law remains an important practical force shaping the human institution. From social justice to social networks, from reproductive medicine to moral rights in the age of technical reproduction, by its nature law cannot avoid tracing a human outline in legal language, processes, methodologies, regulations and judgments. As we stand on the cusp of a new technological and potentially "post-human" age, what image of the human emerges from the contemporary legal field? Given the successive challenges to law from (r)evolutions in science, social science and technology, how does law today think the human in new ways? This question remains relatively under-explored. Recent theoretical scholarship has focused on the "post-human", with legal scholarship also beginning to emphasize the agency of law's materiality. This network asks, instead, how law's notion of the human is impacted by widespread changes in technology, climate, and new orders of global economic and political life. Equally, this network supplements moral and juridical philosophies of the human that have dominated the attention of the legal field, by considering the above pressures placed on law's human by new practices and ways of thinking. The network brings jurisprudential thought into the technological and material turn, whilst retaining its focus on the human as a centrally important question. Featuring a collaborative workshop, a major conference and a public engagement event, in addition to dissemination via academic outputs, a project website, a presentation to industry, and a university curriculum, this network will facilitate a broad and sustained exchange about how law thinks the human today. It will foreground new ideas about the nature of human life, and enable further, deeper research in this area by uniting academics in interdisciplinary legal studies and bordering disciplines with industry practitioners, cultural industries, and policy developers. The broader public visibility and implications of the network's activity will also be a central consideration. Public knowledge about the network will be augmented by a website, social media, and print media appearances by the Investigators, as well as a symposium at Tate Modern on "the image of the human" that will incorporate arts practitioners. Direct engagement with the field of practice, particularly law-making and policy development, will be catalysed by a presentation to select All-Party Parliamentary Groups and NGOs. In addition, Advisory Group meetings and network events will explore ways of sparking new dialogues amongst researchers, legal professionals, legislators, and wider publics, to seek new modes of collaboration and potential future research. In this way, AHRC funding for this network will support the initial phase of a larger project with significant potential for further funding possibilities.