Serena Vantin has worked mainly on the history of the philosophy of law, the history of legal feminism, and the problems of philosophical-legal and bioethical relevance related to the domain of technology.
In more detail, a first area of inquiry is related to the late 18th-century discourse on men’s rights, its revolutionary scope and paradoxes, as well as those rearticulations that lead up to the 20th-century debate on human rights.
A second area of studies focuses on the emergence of a discourse on women’s rights and political subjectivity, with particular attention to the elaboration of a now classic author such as Mary Wollstonecraft, up to the different currents of contemporary legal feminism.
A third area of research is devoted to the impact of technology on normative philosophy, and especially to the metamorphoses of the concept of legal and moral responsibility in the second half of the 20th century.
