Faculty Bio
LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE WINTER SCHOOL
FACULTY
(Alphabetical order)
Sara Azzini graduated in Law from the University of Pavia presenting the final thesis about the Medical Assisted Reproduction in Italy. She has practiced the lawyer apprenticeship since October 2008, and she is not a qualified lawyer in Italy. She attended the Postgraduate School in Law at the University of Pavia and Bocconi University, Milan. She cooperates with the Interdepartmental Research Centre European Centre for Life Sciences, Health and the Courts (University of Pavia). In June 2008, she was appointed Teaching Fellow (course in Science and Law – Professor Amedeo Santosuosso) and from July 2008 to July 2011 she was Scholarship Fellow of the I.R.C.C.S. Foundation – Policlinico San Matteo.
Her current research deals with the field of law sources and critical decisions in medicine.
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Marina Boccardi achieved her degree in Experimental Psychology in Padua (Italy), and PhD in Neuroscience in Kuopio (Finland). From 1997, for over 10 years she worked in the neuropsychological rehabilitation of patients with moderate-severe Alzheimer’s disease, setting and divulgating the approach of detecting and using alternative psychobiological routs, spared by the disease, for a fruitful rehabilitation also in severe patients. As to Alzheimer’s disease, she is currently coordinating the standardization of the measurement of hippocampal atrophy from magnetic resonance images - a recognized biomarker for the disease – within a large international project involving the expert centers in Europe and USA. From 2000 she has been working as a researcher in Neuroscience, specifically in the use of advanced neuroimaging algorithms for the examination of psychobiological issues from magnetic resonance images. Her interest is in the psychobiological correlates of adaptive behaviour, and in the role of the limbic system in disorders accompanied by abnormal personality and behaviour. Her first studies of frontotemporal dementia (a degenerative cause of abnormal personality change and behaviour) continued in the studies of psychopathy (a congenital condition associated with disturbed personality and behaviour), and are reported in publications on international journals of neuroscience. She is a member of the European Association for Neuroscience and Law, and teaches in Italian schools of Juridical Psychology.
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Chiara Boscarato graduated in Law in 2009 from the University of Pavia, Italy. She is now a Ph.D. student in Civil Law at the Department of Private Law, Roman Law and European legal culture at the University of Pavia. Her research activity is focused on interaction between new technologies and the law, and in particular on the implications of new advancement of in robotics, in strict cooperation with the European Center for Law, Science and New Technologies (ECLT), University of Pavia.
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Barbara Bottalico is a qualified Italian lawyer and a PhD Candidate at the Doctoral School of Comparative and European Legal Studies, University of Trento, Italy. During the Academic Year 2009/2010, she taught the 20-hour Seminar "New Dimensions of Individual's Liberties" at the University of Milan, Faculty of Law. In 2009, she spent one month at King’s College Law School in London (UK) as Visiting Scholar. In 2010, she received a scholarship from the MacArthur Foundation to participate in the Penn Neuroscience Boot Camp, an intensive summer school organized by the Center for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA), From February 2011 to December 2011 she was Visiting Scholar at Brooklyn Law School in New York, USA. Since January 2009, Barbara Bottalico has been a Scholarship Fellow at the European Center for Law, Science and New Technologies ECLT, University of Pavia. Her research interests are in the field of Law and New Technologies, with a particular focus on the impact of Neuroscience on the Law, from a comparative perspective. Her doctoral project is focused on the introduction of neuroscientific evidence in Italian and US criminal proceedings.
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Gabriella Bottini - Gabriella Bottini is full professor of Psychobiology and Neuropsychology at the Psychology Department of Pavia University, and director of the Cognitive Neuropsychology Center at the Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital of Milan, Italy. She is a PhD in Neurological Science (1991), Medical Doctor (1982) and Neurological Consultant (1986). Gabriella Bottini attended the Clinique Universitaire - Neuropsichiatrique Bel Air of Geneve (Switzerland) as an internal student. She spent two years for research on normal subjects and patients at the Medical Research Council Positron Emission Tomography Cyclotron Unit - Hammersmith Hospital of London and attended the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. She has been Neurologist Assistant (1990-1992) and Aid Neurologist (1994-2000) at the Neurological Science Department of Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital of Milan, Italy. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Neurology of London. She coordinates the study group of Neuropsychology of the Lega Italiana contro l'Epilessia (LICE) and of the study group of Neuroscience and Law of the Società Italiana Neurologia Demenze (SINDEM). Membership: International Neuropsychological Symposium (INS), Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia (SINP), European Neuropsychological Society (ENS), Società Italiana Neurologia Demenze (SINDEM), Lega Italiana contro l'Epilessia (LICE).
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Alfredo Calcedo Barba is Profesor Titular de Psiquiatría (tenured professor), Medical School, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is in charge of undergraduate teaching at the Universidad Complutense Medical School, at the Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Director of the Master Course on Forensic Psychiatry of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid since 2003, and Head of the Mental Health Unit devoted the treatment of victims of intimate partner violence and their children. Dr. Calcedo-Barba has participated in research related to the violent behavior of schizophrenic patients, and his works have been published such journals as Schizophrenia Bulletin, the International Journal of Psychiatry and Law, the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, World Psychiatry, General Hospital Psychiatry, Current Opinion in Psychiatry. He is very interested in the ethical implications of the practice of Psychiatry both in clinical and forensic settings.
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Stefano F. Cappa received his M.D. at the University of Milan, in which he completed his neurology training. He has held assistant professor and associate professor positions in Neurology and Neurological Rehabilitation at the University of Brescia. Since 1999 he is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Vita Salute S. Raffaele University and Director of the Neurology Department of S. Raffaele Turro Hospital, Milano, Italy. He has spent research periods at Boston University, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at University of California San Diego, at the Medical Research Council Cyclotron Unit of Hammersmith Hospital in London and at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig. His main research interests are the cerebral organization of language and the application of functional imaging methods to the study of cognitive function (in particular, of semantic memory and social cognition).
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Franco Caroleo graduated in Law in 2009 from the University of Pavia, Italy. In August 2008 he was an intern at the Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Arusha, Tanzania), and from September to December 2008 he was Visiting Student at the Bond University (Australia). In 2009 he was also an Intern at the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Family Policy Department. In 2010 he graduated with a Social Sciences Diploma from the Istituto Universitario degli Studi Superiori of Pavia, presenting a final thesis on the human rights’ transnational dimension. He worked as legal practitioner at the Rome Municipality Legal Office and as law clerk in the Civil Court of Rome. He attended the Postgraduate School in Law from the University of Rome. He is now a PhD Student at the Doctoral School of Private Law, Roman European legal culture at the University of Pavia, Italy and he cooperates with the European Centre for Law, Science and New Technologies (ECLT) in the field of law and technologies.
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Paul Catley is the Head of the Department of Law at the University of the West of England, UK. He currently teaches Criminal Law, Sexuality and the Law and Constitutional and Administrative Law. His interest in Law and Neuroscience focuses on the use of neuroscience to assess risk, not only within the criminal justice system, but also in areas such as employment law. He is also interested in what neuroscience can add to our understanding of capacity and responsibility. He recently jointly wrote with Lisa Claydon the chapter on English law for Tade Spranger’s forthcoming book on comparative approaches to Neurolaw around the world.
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Lisa Claydon is an Associate Head of Department and Reader in Law in the Department of Law at the University of the West of England: Bristol. She has been researching neuroscience and criminal responsibility since 1998. She lectures and leads the criminal law course at the University of the West of England and writes and gives keynote lectures in the areas of criminal responsibility, mental condition defences and the interface between law and neuroscience. In 2010/11 she was a member of the English Royal Society working group on Neuroscience and Law and contributed to the published findings of that group http://royalsociety.org/brainwaves-law/. She has also been contributing to the debate with the English Law Commission on the reform of the defense of insanity in England and Wales.
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Roberto Colombo received the Dr. Eng. Degree in electrical engineering from the "Politecnico di Milano", Italy in 1980. Since 1981 he has worked with the "Salvatore Maugeri" Foundation, IRCCS, Rehabilitation Institutes of Veruno and Pavia where he is head of the Bioengineering Service. His research interests include: robot-aided neuro-rehabilitation, muscle tone and spasticity evaluation, muscle force and fatigue assessment, speech production mechanisms assessment, respiratory mechanics assessment. Teacher in several national and international courses in the field of neuro-rehabilitation, he is the author of over 60 papers and the co-editor of one book on the subject of speech production mechanisms.
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Katy De Kogel - Dr. C.H. (Katy) de Kogel is a senior researcher at the Research and Documentation Centre (WODC) of the Ministry of Security and Justice in the Netherlands. She studied psychology and has a PhD in behavioral biology. She worked several years as a researcher at the department of child psychiatry at the Medical Centre of the University of Utrecht and in Forensic Psychiatric Institution ‘De Kijvelanden’. Since 2000 she works at the WODC. Her research includes several projects in forensic psychiatry, such as quality of life in long stay forensic patients, long-term monitoring of released offenders, and international perspectives in forensic care. She is executive coordinator of the focus area Social Safety of the research programme ‘Brain & Cognition – Social Innovation in Health Care, Education and Safety’ hosted by the National Science Foundation of the Netherlands (NWO). She conducts and supervises research projects on neuropsychological and physiological factors and responsiveness of detainees in a cognitive behavioral intervention, and on the role of neurobiological information in decision making in criminal cases. From 2008 until 2011 she was a member of the executive committee of the Dutch Society for Criminology.
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Pim Haselager is a principal investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and the head of the educational program of Artificial Intelligence (AI), both at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He works within the philosophy of mind, with a focus on AI and Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS). He is particularly interested in the integration of empirical work (i.e. experimentation, computational modeling, and robotics) with philosophical issues regarding knowledge and intelligent behavior. He investigates the ethical and societal implications of research in, and the ensuing technologies (e.g. Brain-Computer Interfacing) of, AI and CNS. He publishes in journals such as Cognitive Science, Cognition, Neuroethics, Social Neuroscience, Neural Networks, and Philosophical Psychology.
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Daniela Ovadia is a science journalist with a strong background in medicine and neuroscience. She collaborates with the Center for cognitive neuropsychology at Niguarda Hospital in Milan (directed by prof. Gabriella Bottini) as a science officer and supervisor. She teaches science journalism at University of Milan and is a member of the board of the professional association Science writers in Italy. She has been conducting research and communication projects on neuroscience and its impact on society (she recently published on "Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience" a paper on the way media depicted deep brain stimulation techniques and the ethical issues related to their use). From 2008 to 2011 she participated in the "Brain in dialogue" project, funded by the European Commission to enhance interdisciplinary dialogue between neuroscientists, media, lawyers and patients. In June 2011 she organized and chaired the neuroethical session at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Doha, Qatar. She is a member of the International Neuroethics Society. She recently received a fellowship by the University of Pennsylvania to participate in the multidisciplinary professional summer course "Neuroscience and Society" directed by prof. Martha Farah.
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Carlo Alberto Redi is full Professor of Zoology at the University of Pavia and head of the section for Developmental Biology at the Department of Animal Biology. A chemist by training (1968) he graduated in Biology (1972) from the University of Pavia as an alumnus of Collegio Ghislieri. He started his university career as Researcher (1973 – 1975) and Associated Professor (1975 – 1989) at the Institute of Histology and Embryology, University of Pavia, where he progressed to become full Professor of Zoology and Developmental Biology (1990). He has been Coordinator of research grants from NATO, EC, Italian MURST, Italian CNR, Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente, Provincia di Pavia, and private foundations (CARIPLO, Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie di Piacenza e Vigevano, Olympus Foundation Science for Life, Millipore). He has also been acting as referee for the following international Journals: Journal of Experimental Zoology; Evolution; Andrologia; Italian Journal of Zoology; Journal of Evolutionary Biology; Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; Chromosome Research; Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics; Experimental Cell Research. Carlo Alberto Redi is one of the founders of the European Center for Law Science and New Technologies, University of Pavia.
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Giacomo Rizzolatti is Professor of Human Physiology at the Università degli studi di Parma, where he is the Director of the Department of Neurosciences. Formerly President of the European Brain Behavior Society and the Italian Society for Neuroscience, as well as member of the European Medical Research Council, Professor Rizzolatti has, for several years, directed the European Training Program in Brain and Behaviour Research (ETP) sponsored by the European Science Foundation. He is member of Academia Europaea and of Accademia dei Lincei as well as Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was recently elected Associé étranger of the Institut de France’s Académie des Sciences. Among Professor Rizzolatti’s major awards are the Golgi Prize for Physiology, the George Miller Award of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the Accademia dei Lincei’s Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine and the Herlitzka Prize for Physiology awarded by the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. Since the early eighties, Professor Rizzolatti has been recording the activity of nerve cells in the brain specialised for the control of hand actions such as grabbing objects or picking items up. In 1996, this resulted in the discovery of "Mirror Neurons" that is neurons which fire or become active both when one performs such hand actions as well as when one observes them in another. Some scientists consider “Mirror Neurons” as one of the most important findings in the last decade. Their potential importance lies with the fact that they may be the basis through which we are able to understand the intentions of others, acquire language and share feelings.
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Caroline Rodiger studied law at the University of Bonn (Germany) and specialized in International, European and Comparative Law at the University of Strasbourg (France). She took her First Judicial State Examination at the Higher Regional Court Cologne in May 2009 and began her Ph.D. specializing in Neurolaw (Neuroscience and Law). Caroline is involved as a research associate both in the project "Neuroscience And Norms: Ethical and Legal Aspects of Norms in Neuroimaging" and in a forthcoming project dealing with "Neuroscience, Media and Legislation" (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research); she is also a member of the Research Group "Norm-Setting in the Modern Life Sciences" at the Institute of Science and Ethics, University of Bonn. She stayed at the Health Law Institute, University of Alberta (Canada) for research purposes in 2009 and 2011. Her research interests lie in investigating the legal aspects of Neurosciences and Modern Life Sciences.
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Amedeo Santosuosso is Professor of Law at the University of Pavia. He also teaches Law at the University of Milan and serves as Judge at the Court of Appeal of Milan. He is President of the Interdepartmental Centre of the University of Pavia European Centre for Law, Science and New Technologies. Since 1997 he has cooperated with the Scientific Committee of the Italian Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (The Supreme Council of the Judiciary). He is author of the project on "Education in Bioethics", approved by the Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (November 1998). Santosuosso has been member of the Commission on Hydration and Nutrition in PVS patients and of the Commission on Transplants from living donors, both set up by the Minister of Health in 2000 and 2001. He is member of the Ministerial Commission on End of Life Decisions (Ministry of Health). Santosuosso is author of Corpo e libertà. Una storia tra diritto e scienza, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano 2001; Bioethical Matters and the Courts: do Judges Make Law?, Notizie di Politeia, n.65/2002 and main author of the edition, Science, Law and the Courts in Europe, Ibis, Como-Pavia (I), 2004. He is also author of several articles published in international journals, on law and bioethics. Santosuosso is currently working on the worldwide law-making process in the field of scientific applications on human beings.
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Anna Sedda graduated with a M.Sc. in Neuropsychology-Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pavia. During her M.Sc. she worked with Prof. Gabriella Bottini in her Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology, where she participated in neuropsychological research on facial expression recognition in epilepsy patients. During her PhD (2006-2009) at the Department of Psychology at the University of Pavia she spent a year at the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada (2008- 2009) working with Prof. Melvyn A. Goodale. In his Laboratory of Action and Perception, she became interested in multisensory information integration during human precision movements and started to learn functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques. Currently, Dr Sedda is a Post Doc fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of Pavia (2010-present), working with Prof Gabriella Bottini and her team. She is studying emotional processes in epilepsy and unilateral spatial neglect. Furthermore, in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, she is developing new rehabilitation paradigms based on virtual reality platforms and on multisensory processing.
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Anne Lise Sibony is professor of European Law at the University of Liège (Belgium). She read law and economics in Paris, graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and holds a Master's degree in Regulation from the London School of Economics. In her research, Anne-Lise has always been keen to analyse the interplay between law and other disciplines. She wrote her PhD on the judicial use of economic reasoning in competition law. Her main research interest lies in how (through which legal techniques) scientific knowledge may be used in the legal sphere. Anne-Lise's most recent research deals with how insights from social psychology may be used for interpretation and enforcement of EU consumer law on unfair practices.
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Tade Mathias Spranger: is Head of the interdisciplinary BMBF (German Ministry for Science and Education) research group "Norm-Setting in the Modern Life Sciences" at the Institute of Science and Ethics (IWE), Bonn; Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bonn; Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo (2002) and at the University of Technology Sydney (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, 2004-2005); member, inter alia, of the School of Medicine´ s Ethics Committee (University of Bonn); consultant, inter alia, to the German Government, the European Commission, the UNESCO and the German Commission for UNESCO.
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Daniela Tiscornia is Director of Research at the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques (ITTIG), belonging to the Italian National Research Council (CNR), where she leads the Research Unit : "Legal ontologies and Legal Language Processing".
Her Research activity is in the area of ICT & LAW, with specific references to legal information processing, legal language analysis and in the application of AI techniques to the representation of legal knowledge. Current research interests deal with the application of Semantic Web tools to the legal domain and with the development of ontologybased models of legal knowledge. She has been acting as scientific coordinator or member of national and European projects, as:
ICT4Law (Converging Technologies, project of the Piedmont Region, 20082011)
Dalos (Drafting Legislation with Ontologybased Support, (eParticipation 20072008)
Lois (Lexical Ontologies for Legal Information Sharing, eContent 20022004)
ePSInet (ePublic Sector Information, eContent 2002).
She is currently participating to the European Project eCodex (Ejustice Communication via Online
Data exchange, ICT PSP 2010). She is Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal Artificial Intelligence and Law, Amsterdam, Kluwer and Member of the Editorial Board of the International Review: Informatica e Diritto, Napoli, ESI
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Dave Van Toor studied Law (2003-2008) and Clinical Psychology (2005-2010) at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He obtained his LL.M. degree, specializing in Criminal Law, on a thesis about the differences between the position and the potential success of treatment of the mentally ill in criminal and civil health law. The primary Dutch legal scientific magazine (NJB) published a summary of his thesis in June 2008. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in September 2010 after concluding a study regarding the breach of the privilege of confidentiality in criminal cases by psychologists (the influence of the requesting authority (police, prosecutor, judge) and the gravity of the crime (theft, murder) on handing information to the justice department). Van Toor has been a lecturer and Ph.D. candidate since August 2008 at the University of Nijmegen, Faculty of Law. He teaches courses about Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law. The autonomous position of the suspect in Criminal Law is the subject of his dissertation. It focuses on problems regarding the position of the suspect that might rise when new criminal methods are introduced; such as Brain fingerprinting versus the privilege against self-incrimination and the right to remain silent.