Marco Ventura

Phd at the University of Strasbourg, Marco Ventura is full professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Siena, Italy.
Since 2004 he is visiting professor at the R. Schuman University of Strasbourg and a member of the local Centre Droit, Société et Religion en Europe. In 2007 he was appointed for the international chair at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Previously he visited the University College of London (2002) and the University of Oxford (2004). He also lectured in Leuven, Utrecht, Paris, Oslo, Oviedo, Tübingen, Budapest, Thessaloniki, Coimbra, Copenhagen. In 2001 he was appointed rapporteur on the patentability of biotechnologies for the European Parliament. Since 2004 he is the Director of the Centre for Law and Biotechnologies at the University of Siena. He published widely in English, Italian and French on biolaw, bioethics, law and religion. In particular, he focused on assisted reproduction (Procréer hors la loi. Loi civile, loi morale et loi canonique face á la nouvelle procréation, Strasbourg, 1994), on the management of conflicts of conscience within the legal framework of the Catholic Church (Pena e penitenza nel diritto canonico postconciliare, Napoli, 1996) and on the relationship between ethics and the law in the European Union (La laicitá dell´Unione europea. Diritti, mercato, religione, Torino, 2001).
He is also the co-author of the first Italian textbook of medical humanities (see Medicina e diritto: la reciproca influenza, in Manuale di medical humanities, a cura di R. Bucci, Roma, 2006, pp. 159-174) and the editor of the 2007 special issue on "Biolaw and Religion" of the Spanish yearbook "Derecho y Religion". More recently see Biotech as the New Frontier for Biolaw and Ethics, in Collection of Texts from the EU-Macao Co-operation in the Legal Field, Macao, 2007, pp. 421-432; and La frontiera biogiuridica del diritto ecclesiastico, Introduzione a F. Botti, L´eutanasia in Svizzera, Bologna, Bonomia University Press, 2007, pp. VII-XII. He also works with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera and the Giornale radio RAI.