Università Roma Tre

The course is devoted to an in-depth examination of the various ways in which the law regulates human life at its different stages. It places particular emphasis on the following areas: reproduction and reproductive technologies, sexuality, gender, and gender identities. Feminist and critical race theories serve as a significant analytical and discursive tool for examining and discussing the "legal construction" of human bodies, encompassing not only bodily parts but also bodily services (including surrogacy and sex work), modes of conception, and aspects of sex and sexuality. Particular attention is paid to the European legal framework.

The course is divided into four sections:
1. Introduction to Bio Law; bio law, whiteness and racism;
2. The legal regulation of body parts, cells and genes;
3. The female body. Human reproduction and reproductive technologies;
4. The legal construction of the sexual body.

Introduction:
1 S. Rodotà, NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS FACTS, INTERPRETATIONS, PERSPECTIVES, in Comparative Law Rev., Vol. 11/2, p. 6 ss. (14 pagine)
2 S. Rodotà, OF MACHINES AND MEN: THE ROAD TO IDENTITY. SCÈNES FOR A DISCUSSION, in Comp. Law. Rev., 2(2020);
3 S. Rodota, Cultural Models and the Future of Bioethics, 10 J. CONTEMP. HEALTH L. & POL'y 33 (1994).

The legal regulation of body parts:
1) Radhika Rao, Genes and Spleens: Property, Contract, or Privacy Rights in the Human Body?, 35 Journal of Law 371 (2007). Available at: http://repository.uchastings.edu/faculty_scholarship/654 (10 pagine);
2) Assoc. for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 576 (2013)
al link https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/569/576/#tab-opinion-1970691
3) G. Resta, The Case against the Privatization of Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Myriad Genetics Controversy

Human Procreation and reproductive Technologies:
a) Abortion:
1) Tamara Hervey, Tiyash Banerjee, Abortion rights in EU law: recent developments, in BioLaw Journal, Special Issue
1/2023;
2) Roe v. Wade;
3) R. B. Siegel, ....

Reproductive Technologies:
1) R. Rao, Egg-Freezing, Uterine Transplants, and In Vitro Gametogenesis: Disruptive or Normalizing Reproductive Technologies?, 22 HOUS. J. HEALTH L. & POL’Y 121 (2022);
2) In the Matter of Baby M.
3) Menneson v. France, European Court of Human Rights
4) C. Cossutta, Maternal relations, feminism and surrogate motherhood in the Italian context, Modern Italy, 2018 Vol. 23, No. 2, 215–226

The Construction of the Sexual Body:
1) S. Osella, Reinforcing the binary and disciplining the subject: The constitutional right to gender recognition in the Italian case law;
2) Bondage case, European Court of Human Rights;
3) P. Kotiswaran, The Laws of Social Reproduction: A Lesson in Appropriation