Serena Vantin

Serena Vantin is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Bologna and, since May 2024, Delegate for Public Engagement.

She has been a Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and the University of Notre Dame. In 2027, she will be Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford.

Her research focuses mainly on the human rights paradigm, the history of legal feminism, and philosophical-legal and bioethical issues related to technology.

She is the author of 6 monographs and over 50 articles and book chapters.

She is currently working on a scholarly translation of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She is also Principal Investigator (P.I.) of the Project “TAHR – Thinking and Acting on Human Rights. An Ongoing History”, in collaboration with the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, and Co-P.I. of the Project “Derechos de las mujeres en perspectiva histórica-genealógica”, in collaboration with the Universidad Central de Chile.