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Laura Palazzani, PhD
Professor of Philosophy of law

LUMSA University
Borgo S Angelo, Roma, Italy
E-mail: palazzani@lumsa.it

Education

1992-1996 PhD in Bioethics Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
1991 Visiting Researcher in Biomedical Ethics Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
1989 Degree in Philosophy Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy

Biography

Dr. Laura Palazzani is a Professor of Philosophy of law at LUMSA University. She earned her doctorate in Bioethics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. Her teaching focuses on Bioethics, General Theory law, Sociology of law, etc. She extends her service as an official member and Vice chair for many National and International Bioethical committees. Dr. Laura Palazzani has coordinated many National and International Research units and also a part of many research programs.

Research Interest

Bioethics, Philosophy of Law, Sociology of law, Biolaw

Scientific Activities

Teaching Experience
2015 Visiting scholar of the Boston College, Boston
2015-Present Professor at the Faculty of Theology, Lugano, Switzerland
2014 Visiting senior researcher at the King's College, London
2001-Present Professor of Philosophy of Law, LUMSA University, Rome, Italy
Professional Activities
2016-Present Official member of the UNESCO, International Bioethics Committee (IBC)
2016-Present Member of the Ethics Council of the Italian Sports Medicine Federation
2016-Present Vice-Chair of the clinical ethics Committee, Meyer Children's Hospital, Florence, Italy
2016-Present Member of the Scientific Council of the Courtyard of the Gentiles, Pontifical Council for Culture
2014-Present Italy’s official delegate to the Committee on Bioethics, Council of Europe
2010-2015 Member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, European Commission
2008-2016 Corresponding Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life
2007-Present Vice President of the Italian Committee for Bioethics
2007-Present Member of the steering committee, Center for Bioethics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy
2002-Present Member of the Ethics Committee, Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

Publications

Books
  1. Il concetto di persona tra bioetica e diritto, Giappichelli, Torino 1996
  2. Diritto naturale ed etica matrimoniale in Christian Thomasius. La questione del concubinato, Giappichelli, Torino 1998
  3. Introduzione alla biogiuridica, Giappichelli, Torino 2002
  4. F. D’Agostino, L. Palazzani, Bioetica. Nozioni fondamentali, La Scuola, Brescia 2007; seconda edizione riveduta ed ampliata 2013
  5. Identità di genere? Dalla differenza alla in-differenza sessuale, San Paolo, Milano 2008
  6. Introduction to the philosophy of biolaw, Studium, Roma 2009
  7. A philosophical introduction to law, Aracne, Roma 2010: Introduzione filosofica al diritto, Aracne, Roma 2011
  8. Sex/gender: gli equivoci dell’uguaglianza, Giappichelli, Torino 2011; Gender in Philosophy and Law, Springer, Dordrecht 2012
  9. Il potenziamento umano. Tecnoscienza, etica e diritto, Giappichelli, Torino 2015
  10. La filosofia per  il diritto. Teorie, concetti, applicazioni, Giappichelli; Torino 2016
  11. Cura e giustizia: tra teoria e prassi, Studium, Roma 2017
  12. Dalla bio-etica alla tecno-etica: le nuove sfide al diritto, Giappichelli, Torino 2017
Articles
  1. Bioética de los principios y bioética de las virtudes: el debate actual an Estados Unidos, “Medicina y Etica”, 1992, 4, pp. 445-471.
  2. Personalism and bioethics, “Ethics and Medicine”, 1994, 10 (1), pp. 7-11.
  3. Calidad de vida: consideraciones filosóficas, “Medicina y Etica”, 1994, 3, pp. 365-377.
  4. Por un «estatudo jurídico» del embrión humano. El debate mas reciente de la bioética italiana, “Cuadernos de Bioética”, 1995, 20 (1), pp. 23-29.
  5. The ethical debate in bioethics: the contribution of personalism, “Medical Ethics and Bioethics”, 1995, 2 (2), pp. 1-4.
  6. The nature of the human embryo: philosophical perspectives, “Ethics and Medicine”, 1996, 12 (1), pp. 14-17.
  7. El concepto de persona en el debate bioético y biojurídico actual, “Medicina y Etica”, 1997, 1, pp. 19-33.
  8. Podmiotowosc prawna embrionu, in “Spoteczenstwo” 1997, 3, pp. 387-398.
  9. Genetic engineering and human nature, in P. Doherty, A. Sutton (eds.), Man-made man: ethical and legal issues in genetics, Open Air, Dublin 1997, pp. 46-57.
  10. The significance of the philosophical concept of person and bioethical and biojuridical implications on the statuto f the human embryo, in AA.VV., Identity and status of the human embryo, ed. by Pontificia Accademia per la Vita, Libreria editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 1998, pp. 53-74.
  11. Para una distribución justa de los recursos según la bioética personalista, “Medicina y Etica”, 2001, 1, pp. 9-20.
  12. Los valores femeninos en bioética, in A. Aparisi, J. Ballesteros (eds.), Por un femminismo de la complemendariedad. Nuevas perspectivas para la famiglia y el trabajo, Eunsa Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, 2002, pp. 55-76.
  13. Person and human being in bioethics and biolaw, in The Legitimacy of Truth. Die Legitimität der Wharheit, Proceedings of the III Meeting Italian-American Philosophy – Rome 2001, Münster-Hamburg-London 2003, pp. 313-326; in A. Soeteman (ed.), Pluralism and Law, Proceedings of the 20th IVR World Congress (Amsterdam 2001), Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 177-185.
  14. El debate sobre las células troncales en Italia: problemas biojurídicos y desarrollo normativo, in J. L. Martines (ed.), Células troncales humanas. Aspecto científicos, éticos y jurídicos, Descléè De Brouwer, Comillas, Madrid 2003, pp. 171-193.
  15. Advance directives and living wills, in Life-sustaining treatments and vegetative state: scientific advances and ethical dilemmas, “L’Arco di Giano”, 2004, supplemento 39, pp. 44-49; “NeuroReabilitation. An interdisciplinary Journal”, 2004, 19 (4), pp. 305-313.
  16. Individualité et identité personnelle dans le debat bioéthique et biojuridique, “Philosophia”, 2004, 34, pp. 53-65.
  17. Cuerpo y sujeto en bioética, “Cuadernos de Bioética”, 2004, 1, pp. 17-27.
  18. Menores, bioética y derecho: autonomía y respondabilidad en la toma de decisiones en relación a tratamientos sanitarios, in I. Ruiz Gallardon, A. Garcia De Pablos (eds.), Los menores ante el derecho, Universidad Complutense, Servicio de Publicaciones Faculdad de Derecho, Madrid 2005, pp. 225-254.
  19. The concept of person between bioethics and biolaw, in A. Čovoic, T. Soeren HoffmN (hrsg.), Bioethik und kulturelle Pluralität. Bioethics and Cultural Plurality. Die südesteuropäische Perspektive. The Southeast European Perspective, Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2005, pp. 113-123.
  20. Bioética y derechos humanos, in J. Ballesteros, E. Fernandez (a cura di), Biotecnología y posthumanismo, Universidad de Navarra, Editorial Aranzadi, Navarra 2007, pp.383-403.
  21. Person and human being in bioethics and biolaw, in D.N. Weisstub, G. Diaz-Pintos (eds.), Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care. An International Perspective, UCLM (Universidad de Castilla- La Mancha) Springer, Dordrecht 2007, pp. 89-98.
  22. La contribución de la bioética en feminino a la praxis del cuidado, “Revista di Filosofia”, Bioética. Cambio teórico, problemas prácticos, 2008, 10, pp. 145-157.
  23. Bioethical criteria for patient’s selection in organ’s allocation – Criterios bioéticos para la seleccion de pacientes en la distribucion de organos, in M. T. Lopez De la Veja, C. Velayos (eds.), Educación en bioética donaciòn y trasplante de organos – Bioethical education organ procurement and transplantation, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 2008, pp. 29-39; pp. 41-51.
  24. Medical assisted procreation: italian law, pp. 21-26; Death as bioethical problem, pp. 129-130, Euthanasia, pp. 153-156, Living will, pp. 199-200, Refusal of treatment, p. 209, Persistent therapy, p. 211, Palliative care, pp. 221-222, Organ’s allocation, 233-236, Education in bioethics, pp. 297-300, Libertarian theory, p. 310, Utilitarian theory, p. 311, Dignity of the person, p. 312, Biolaw and ethical pluralism, 310-313, in C. Hervé (ed.), Visions compares de la bioétique, l’Harmattan, Paris 2008.
  25. Biobanks: bioethical and biolegal aspects, in “Ethically speaking”, 2010, July, 14, pp. 33-34.
  26. Dovere di cura o diritto al rifiuto delle terapie? Pflicht, sich behandeln zu lassen, oder Recht auf Behandlungsverweigerung?, in Bioetica e Biopolitica. Bioethik und Biopolitik, a cura di W. Staudacher, M. Ciampi, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CS) 2009, pp. 141-165.
  27. La ideología de género: presupuestos ideológicos y problematicás jurídicas, in La política, al servicio del bien común, XI Congres Católicos y Vida Pública 20, 21, 22 de noviembre de 2009, Fondación Universitarian San Pablo CEU, CEU Ediciones, 2010, pp. 593-611.
  28. More at stake in stem-cell patents, ‘Correspondance’, “Nature”, 2011, 1, 579. 474.
  29. Embryo research in Italy: the Bioethical and Biojuridical Debate, in “Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics”, 2011, 17.1, pp. 28-39.
  30. Rilevanza dei Comitati a livello nazionale ed internazionale, atti convegno internazionale CNB.
  31. La salute tra nuovi diritti e nuove responsabilità in bioetica e nel biodiritto; Health between new rights and new responsabilities in bioethics and biolaw, in “Panminerva Medica”, Social Medicine in Science, Jurisprudence and Biolaw, La medicina sociale tra scienza, diritto e biogiuridica, edizioni Minerva, 2014, vol. 56, suppl. 1 al n. 1, pp. 25-38.
  32. Introduction, 10th Global Summit of National Ethics/Bioethics Committees, Finding paths through the world, ConBioética, Comiciòn Nacional de Bioética, México, June 22-24, Mexico City, 2014, pp. 52-54.
  33. Law and human life: how biolaw should treat human life?, The 12th International Conference on “The Role of Law in Bioethical Discussion”, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Aprile 2016, pp. 3-15 (traduzione in coreano pp. 17-27); Law and Ethics on Human Life: Neutral Approach vs. Personalist Approach, in “Personalist Bioethics”, 2016, 20, 6, pp. 5-22.
  34. Biolaw, in Henk Ten Have (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, Springer International, Berlin-Dordrecht 2014, pp. 1-11.
  35. Cognitive and mood enhancement: bioethical aspects, in “Journal of Applied Ethics and Biolaw” 2016, 1 (1), pp. 3-11.
  36. Person and human being in bioethics and biolaw, in V.A.J. Kurki, T. Pietrzykowski (eds.), Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the unborn, Springer, Dordrecht 2017, pp. 105-112.
  37. Enhancement in ethical perspective: pros and cons. A critical approach, in B.G. Yudin, O.V. Popova (eds.), Biotechnological human enhancement as a problem of social sciences and humanities: proceedings of the School for young scholars, Publishing House of the Moscow University for the Humanities, Moscow 2017, pp. 181-193.

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