Serena Vantin

Serena Vantin is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bologna. Since May 2024, she has been the Third Mission Delegate.

She has been a Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary University, the University of Cambridge, Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, and the University of Notre Dame.
Her work focuses primarily on the lights and shadows of the human rights paradigm, on the history of legal feminism, and on issues of philosophical-legal and bioethical relevance connected to the domain of technology.
She is the author of six monographs and more than fifty contributions in journals and edited volumes.
She is currently working on the edited volume and first complete academic translation of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She is also the Principal Investigator of the project “TAHR – Thinking and Acting on Human Rights. An Ongoing History”, in collaboration with the Universidade Estadual de Campinas.