Marta Tomasi

people-hidden

Marta Tomasi (11 September 1983) has a post-doc position in Comparative constitutional law at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento. In march 2012 she received her PhD in Comparative and European Legal Studies at the same Faculty, defending a thesis in Comparative constitutional law titled "Human Genetics and Rights' Protection: the Relational Dimension of Individual Autonomy".
During her academic studies she spent a period as a Visiting Scholar by the Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and The King’s College in London.
Since 2007 she's been cooperating with the Biolaw Project of the Faculty of Law in Trento and contributed to several national and European projects (e.g. National FIRB 2007 "The impact of Bio-tech Innovations on Fundamental Rights: an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis"; "Rights on the Move – Rainbow Families in Europe", co-financed by the EC within the Citizenship and Fundamental Rights Programme).
Since a couple of years, she's in charge, together with some colleagues, for the update and implementation of the website www.biodiritto.org.
She is currently involved in teaching activities for the course of comparative constitutional law and public law for the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Bozen.
Email: marta.tomasi@unitn.it

Publications and Articles:

M. Tomasi, Correttivi ad un approccio puramente individualista: il principio di non discriminazione, in R. Bin, S. Lorenzon, N. Lucchi (eds.), Biotech Innovations and Fundamental Rights, Springer, 2012 (ISBN 978-88-470-2032-0).
M. Tomasi, Il modello individualista al banco di prova delle biobanche, in C. Casonato, C. Piciocchi, P. Veronesi (eds.), Forum Biodiritto 2010 La disciplina delle Biobanche a fini terapeutici e di ricerca, Trento, 2012 (ISBN 978-88-8443-416-6).
M. Tomasi, Giudice amministrativo e dati sanitari: scardinamento della tradizionale logica del diritto di accesso, in P. Bonetti, A. Cassatella, F. Cortese, A. Deffenu, A. Guazzarotti (eds.), Giudice amministrativo e diritti costituzionali, Torino, 2012 (ISBN 978-88-348-3588-3).
M. Tomasi, Il modello italiano di regolamentazione giuridica delle biobanche: alla ricerca di una sintesi per una materia poliedrica, in L. Caenazzo (eds.), Biobanche. Importanza, implicazioni e opportunità per la società. Risvolti scientifici, etico-giuridici e sociologici, Padova, 2012 (ISBN: 8862923120).
M. Tomasi, Direct to consumer genetic testing: steps on the path towards a personalised healthcare?, in A. Malerba, L. Massocchi, A Santosuosso (eds.), 2012 Law & Science – Young Scholars Informal Symposium, Pavia, 2013 (ISBN: 978-88-96764-41-4)
M. Tomasi, Ipertrofia di una scienza: «geneticizzazione» dei diritti?, in A. Perez Miras, E.C. Raffiotta, G.M. Teruel Lozano (eds.), Sfide per i diritti della persona dinanzi al XXI secolo: Vita e Scienza, Aranzadi, 2013 (ISBN: 978-84-9014-555-5)
M. Macilotti, S. Penasa, M. Tomasi, Consent, Privacy and Property in the Italian Biobanks Regulation: A Hybrid Model within EU?, in press (Springer)

Participation in Congresses, Conferences and Workshops:

Pavia 12 July 2010 Event 2010, Law&Science Young Scholars Informal Symposium, Centro Interdipartimentale ECLSC in collaboration with Collegio "Ghislieri", "Il trattamento dei dati genetici: dimensione individuale e dimensione collettiva", [Genetic data treatment: individual and collective dimension] (call for papers)
Ferrara 3 - 4 June 2010 BioLaw Forum 2010, La disciplina delle biobanche a fini terapeutici e di ricerca, University of Ferrara in collaboration with University of Trento, "Il modello individualista al (bio)banco di prova", [Testing the individualistic model in biobanking regulation] (call for papers)
Ferrara 20 - 21 January 2011 Conference 2011, Innovazioni Biotecnologiche e Diritti della Persona, University of Ferrara – Department of Legal Sciences , "Correttivi ad un approccio puramente individualista: il principio di non discriminazione", [Adjusting the individualisti framework of protection: the non discrimination principle] (call for papers)
Trento 11 March 2011 Joint Doctoral Students’ Seminar 2011, The Protection of Human Dignity and the Challenges of Bio-Technologies, University of Trento – Department of Legal Sciences, "Selection and enhancement in human genetics: dignity at stake (again)?"
Venice 9 -11 June 2011 XXI Colloquio biennale of the Italian Association of Comparative Law, Associazione Italiana di Diritto Comparato together with the Interdepartmental Doctoral Schoolin Legal Sciences, "Il dato scientifico: un punto di partenza univoco per l’attività di comparazione", [Scientific datum: a starting point for comparative analysis] (call for papers)
Trento 24 – 25 June 2011 Conference 2011, Giudice amministrativo e diritti costituzionali, University of Trento – Department of Legal Sciences, "L’accesso ai dati sensibili e sanitari" [Access to sensitive and health data]
Rome 28-29 October 2011 International Conference New Patient-Centric Perspectives in Medical Research: Ethical and Governance Challenges, Eurac, "The protection of children in Medical Research" (call for papers)
Bologna 3-4 May 2012 italospagnolo in Constitutional Law, Le nuove esigenze di tutela dei diritti della persona, "Ipertrofia di una scienza: "geneticizzazione" dei diritti?", [New trends in the protection of human rights: geneticization of rights?] (call for papers)
Pavia 14 May 2012 Event 2012, Law&Science Young Scholars Informal Symposium, centro Interdipartimentale ECLT in collaboration with Collegio "Ghislieri", "Direct to consumer genetic testing: steps on the path towards a personalised healthcare?", (call for papers)
Trento 17-18 May 2012 Final Conference of the FIRB Project 2006, L'impatto delle innovazioni biotecnologiche sui diritti della persona, [The Impact of Biotechnological Innovations on Fundamental Rights] results presentation
Rovigo 21-23 June 2012 IV STS Italia National Conference, Emerging Technologies, Social Worlds, The Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, "Genetic enhancement and human rights’ protection" (call for papers)
Milan 14 September 2012 Meeting of the Division and Unit Directors of the European Centre of Oncology (Prof. Umberto Veronesi), "Malpractice and defensive medicine: the debate in the U.S."
Milan 30 November 2012 Conference Gene, Gene delle mie brame..., Responsabilità sanitaria – University of Milan, "Il nuovo mondo della genetica di consumo" [The new world of consumer genetics]
Trento 11 December 2012: Conference Diritto e multidimensionalità del corpo umano, Università di Trento, "Il corpo informazione" [Human body as information]
Trento 1 March 2013: Second Seminar of Ethic Committees, Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, "La sperimentazione con i minori" [Sperimentation with minors]
Trento 6 May 2013: Biolaw Seminars, Faculty f Law,University of Trento, "L'azionabilità del diritto alle cure in sede contenziosa" [Right to be cured before Courts]
Tolosa 1-2 July 2013: Conférence Internationale de Droit Médical - Aspect légaux et éthiques du commencement de la vie, Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III, "The protection of children born after ART in rainbow families: challenging parenthood"
Padova 31 September 2013: International Conference Genetics, Robotics, Law Punishment, Department of Publi Law, University of Padua, presentation with prof. C. Casonato, "Genetica e diritti costituzionali: prospettive e profili problematici" [Genetics and constitutional rights: perspectives and criticalities].

Languages

Italian: mothertongue
English: fluent
German: basic