Current Position

Associate Professor of Private Law and Biolaw - Department of Law - University of Cagliari.

Education
1999. Law degree from the University of Cagliari (110 cum laude).
Academic year 2005-2006. PhD in "Contract Law."

Qualifications and Professional Activities

 Qualification to practice as a Lawyer at the Court of Appeal of Cagliari.

 Appointed Honorary Judge at the Court. Functions performed at the Civil Court of Cagliari from 2003 to 2020.

February 2005. Tenured researcher in private law until February 28, 2019.

 Qualification for the second tier, sector 12/A1 Private Law (with the Commission's unanimous decision).

March 1, 2019. Associate Professor of Private Law at the Department of Law, University of Cagliari.

Examination sessions 2012 and 2018, member of the Commission for the qualification to practice law at the Court of Appeal of Cagliari.

Research Areas

After focusing primarily on topics related to contract law, civil liability, and civil evidence, more recently her research interests have shifted to human rights and biolaw.

Scientific Committees, Associations, Study Groups

She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Rivista giuridica sarda.

She is a member of the Editorial Scientific Committee of the Publications Series Department of Law at the University of Cagliari.

She is a member of the Scientific Council of the series Law of Informatics and New Technologies (DirICTo), directed by Massimo Farina (University of Cagliari) and Maria Novella Campagnoli (University of Rome "Tor Vergata").

She is a referee for BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto and Rivista Responsabilità Medica.

She is a member of the editorial board of Rivista Responsabilità Medica for the Civil Law sector.

She is a member of the editorial board of Rivista Studi economico-giuridici at the Department of Law, University of Cagliari.

She is a member of the Scientific Council of ORIZZONTE JUS (Electronic Journal and Editorial Series).

She is a corresponding member of the Associazione Civilisti Italiani.

She is a senior associate member of the Istituto Studi Penalistici Alimena (ISPA Interdepartmental Research Center) at the University of Calabria.

She is a member of the research committee of the Osservatorio di Padova “Per un diritto gentile nelle relazioni di cura”.

Research Projects

2024-2025: A Human-Centred and Ethical Development of Digital and Industrial Technologies. Call: HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT.

2022-2024: The Rule of Law Crisis and Democratic Backsliding in the European Union. Domestic and International Implications. The three-year agreement between the Fondazione di Sardegna and Sardinian Universities.

2021-2023: Euthanasia Through a Multidisciplinary Lens: Law, Medicine, Bioethics, Philosophy, Literature, and Cinema. ISPA, University of Calabria.

2019-2021: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals: Elderly and Women. Regional Law No. 7/2007 “Promotion of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation in Sardinia.”

2019-2022: Supplementary Pensions and Healthcare: A Model of Integrated Welfare. The three-year agreement between the Fondazione di Sardegna and Sardinian Universities.

Research products

unica.it - Prodotti della Ricerca (IRIS)

Conferences and Seminars

December 18, 2024: Advance Healthcare Directives: From the Recognition of the Right to Its Application. A Medical-Legal Guide for Drafting the Document. Seminar at Fondazione di Sardegna, Cagliari.

November 28, 2024: New Families and Parenthood Between Present and Future of Law No. 40/2004 – Conference The Judicial Recognition of New Rights. Civil Rights Between Constitutional Court and Legislative Silence, Department of Law, University of Cagliari, accredited by the Bar Association of Cagliari.

May 25, 2024: The Role of Advance Healthcare Directives in Promoting the Culture of Donation – Conference Organ Donation and Body Donation: Opportunities and Critical Issues, University of Palermo.

May 16, 2024: Artificial Womb and Ectogenesis – Online Seminar The Furthest Horizons of Assisted Reproduction, as part of the series Genetic Identity and Parenthood in the Era of Reproductive Technologies, PRIN 2022 – University of Verona.

October 27, 2023: Legal Aspects of Post-Mortem Body Donation for Study and Research Purposes (Law No. 10/2020) – Training Course ARES Sardegna, accredited for ECM and CF (Bar Association of Cagliari), Advance Healthcare Directives (AHD) and Donation: How and Why to Donate One’s Body to Science, University of Cagliari.

May 13, 2023: Medical Aid in Voluntary Death in Law No. 219/2017 and Subsequent Jurisprudential Developments – Conference Ethics and End-of-Life Care, organized by ARNAS G. Brotzu, Cagliari, accredited for ECM and CF.

February 14, 2023: Surrogacy: Issues and Perspectives Between Prejudices and Complexities – Conference The Human Body Through the Lens of Law, multidisciplinary discussion on The Will and the Body by G. Giaimo, Department of Law, University of Palermo.

November 18, 2022: Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy: Reflections on Rethinking the Absolute Ban on Surrogacy – Conference Current Perspectives on Supplementary Pensions and Integrated Healthcare, Faculty of Economics, Law, and Political Sciences, University of Cagliari.

November 10, 2022: Fundamental Rights, Personal Identity, and Discrimination – Conference The Rule of Law and Democracy Crisis in Europe, Faculty of Economics, Law, and Political Sciences, University of Cagliari.

September 28, 2022: Co-organized and moderated the interdisciplinary conference Assisted End-of-Life: Medical, Bioethical, and Legal Aspects, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Cagliari.

March 4, 2022: Right to Life and Consent Between Essential Safeguards and Fundamental Freedoms: Challenges and Discrimination in Access to Medical Aid in Dying, Awaiting a Non-Existent Law – Seminar End of Life: What Rights?, COA Cagliari Training, held at the Library of the Bar Association.

December 20, 2021: Euthanasia and Consent: From Crime to Right, Through the Referendum on Article 579 of the Penal Code – Seminar Legal Euthanasia Referendum: Towards the Constitutional Court, held in Rome (hybrid format), accredited by CNF and COA Rome.

September 15, 2021: The Right to Medical Assistance in Voluntary Death – Seminar Euthanasia: Crime or Right?, Department of Political Sciences, University of Cagliari, accredited by the Bar Association.

May 24, 2021: Discussant for the Lectio Magistralis by Prof. Fernando Rey Martínez (Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Valladolid), The New Spanish Model for Regulating Euthanasia, organized by ISPA Research Center, University of Calabria.

December 15, 2020: Webinar Contract Adaptation Between Ius Variandi and Renegotiation, as part of the Advanced Private Law course at the University of Bergamo, invited by Prof. Massimo Foglia.

November 25, 2020: Webinar Right to Health and Medical Liability in the Face of COVID-19, as part of the Comparative Private Law course at the University of Palermo, invited by Prof. Giuseppe Giaimo.

September 9, 2019: Medically Assisted Suicide and Fundamental Human Rights – Conference The Right to Medically Assisted Suicide: An Urgent and Unpostponable Issue, Senate of the Republic, Rome (ISMA Hall).

April 8, 2019: Organized and moderated the roundtable Dignity in Dying: The Constitutional Court’s Warning to the Legislator, debate with Sardinian parliamentarians, Faculty of Economics, Law, and Political Sciences, University of Cagliari.

March 14, 2019: Winner of the Call for Papers End-of-Life Issues, organized by Giurisprudenza Penale journal, presenting the paper Therapeutic Choices and Protection of the Minor’s Existential Interests in Care and End-of-Life Relations, Conference End-of-Life Issues: From Piergiorgio Welby to Fabiano Antoniani, University of Roma Tre.

January 19, 2019: End-of-Life: The Right to Choose Under Law No. 219/2017 and Constitutional Court Guidelines – Training Course Care Relationship and End-of-Life: What Rights After Law No. 219/2017?, organized by the Bar Association of Cagliari, held at the Cagliari Courthouse.

December 17, 2018: Care Relationship and End-of-Life Decisions After Law No. 219/2017 – Conference Life and End-of-Life Choices Between Medicine, Ethics, and Law: Challenges and Perspectives After Law No. 219/2017, University of Sassari.

June 14, 2018: The Alfie Evans Case and Medical Treatment Decisions for Minors in Italy, Training Seminar of the Sardinian Journalists’ Association, The Words of End-of-Life: Informed Consent, Advance Healthcare Directives, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Cagliari.

April 20, 2018: Advance Healthcare Directives: Function, Form, and Content – Study Meeting End-of-Life and Living Will: Reflections on Law No. 219/2017, Fondazione di Sardegna.

March 17, 2018: Co-organized the Conference Biomedical Research: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues, University of Cagliari.

April 22, 2016: Co-organized the Conference Financial Crisis and Its Impact on Credit Quantity and Quality: Policy Implications, University of Cagliari.

September 24, 2010: Contingent Circumstances in Contracts for Work and Services – Study Meeting on Work Contracts, Faculty of Law, University of Cagliari.