On the Issue of Procedural Legal Capacity of Individuals with Edited Genomes

Abstract

The article examines the issue of the procedural legal capacity of persons whose genome has been modified using the CRISPR-Cas9 technology. The author analyzes the international and national legal regulation in the field of protection of the rights of persons with an edited genome for their procedural legal capacity. Based on the analysis, it is concluded that the current legal regulation excludes the legal personality of the embryo, and with it the right of persons whose genome has been modified to seek judicial protection in the future. In this regard the need to develop a separate legal status of the embryo is being actualized, which would make it possible to consolidate its procedural legal capacity in the future.