role legal representative role A deontic role, which may be realized in an Act of Consent, where the bearer of the legal representative role consents on behalf of a person who lacks the capability to provide consent. It is a requirement of bearing a legal representative role in some jurisdiction(J) that one also bears a competency to consent in (J). J. Neil Otte Mathias says this shouldn't mention 'act of consent'. I think the idea is that our definition is narrower than the class label indicates. Note: Consent roles are created by Acts of Consent. It follows that one can’t be a consenter and bear a consenter role just because one participated in an informed consent process. Here, one would be a mere research candidate or human subject or...etc, who participated in an informed consent process. Assenter Role, likewise, is the output of an Act of Communicating Assent. Both these roles are backward looking--i.e. They are created by the processes of assent and consent and do not pre-date them. By contrast, ‘Legal Representative Role’ and ‘Permission Role’ are not, by definition, tied to Acts of Consenting and Acts of Assenting. Such roles are the output of other processes, including ‘Act of Permitting’ in the latter case, and perhaps ‘Act of Legal Representative Authorization’ in the former.