The Editorial Board of BioLaw Journal has the pleasure of launching, in occasion of the seventh issue of the Journal, a call for papers dedicated to the theme of surrogacy.
Call for papers - BioLaw Journal 2/16 (English version)
Anno 2016
The complete text of the call in available in the download box below.
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Surrogacy is a very popular issue in the present time and it raises ethical and legal questions calling for urgent answers. Technology did not create a new problem. Rather, it highlighted the ethical and legal profiles of a very ancient affair: the carrying of a pregnancy by a woman who delivers the baby for parents unable to conceive by themselves. Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) created in fact an extremely wide panorama in which some very different forms of surrogacy appear. Embryos can be created either using the intended father's sperm and intended mother's ova or third parties’ gametes. Otherwise, gametes could come one from inside the commissioning couple and the other from a third donor. Moreover, the implied ovum could be that of the surrogate mother (traditional surrogacy). Reasoning in the context of same-sex unions, this tableau becomes even more complex. According to the different hypotheses, links among involved subjects change: both commissioning parents could be genetically linked to the child; just one of them could be or none, when third parties are involved in gametes’ donation. The surrogate mother will be linked to the baby in the case of traditional surrogacy only. The case of intended parents (gay or heterosexual) achieving the effects of surrogacy by any form of adoption is not included among the previous examples. This hypothesis, traditionally regulated, can only be considered relevant for the purpose of this call in relation to the proximity with the case of an embryo created with gametes both coming from external donors. |
The call welcomes contribution not only from all legal disciplines, but also from other sciences, such as ethics and philosophy, history, sociology, psychology, economics and so on.
Submitted papers will be anonymously evaluated by an ad hoc scientific committee and selected for publication on the Journal also on the basis of their touch of originality.
Manuscripts shall not exceed 80.000 characters (spaces included) and could be submitted in Italian, English, Spanish or French (an abstract in English is required). Author guidelines are available here .
The deadline for electronic submission to biodiritto@gmail.com is 1st May 2016.
Here the Italian version of the call.
Pubblicato il: Martedì, 08 Marzo 2016 - Ultima modifica: Sabato, 03 Agosto 2019
