Research Areas

Research on legal issues concerning the use and sharing
of human biological sample and bioinformation for research and clinical
purposes; comparative analysis and definition of legal forms and tools
related to the implementation of a research biobank and electronic health
records.

Selected Publications

DUCATO R., MARCHI I., Is Gattaca already here? An Interdisciplinary
Approach to Forensic Biobanks, in BOTTIS (ed), Proceedings of the 5th ICIL
2012 - Equity, Integrity & Beauty in Information Law & Ethics, forthcoming.

CASO R., DUCATO R., Opening research biobanks: an overview, in PASCUZZI,
IZZO, MACILOTTI (eds), Comparative Issues in the Governance of Research
Biobanks: Property, Privacy, Intellectual Property and the Role of
Technology, Springer, 2013, pp. 209-229.

PASCUZZI G., DUCATO R., Biobanche di ricerca tra proprietà, privacy e
proprietà intellettuale: un approccio LawTech [Research biobanks between
property, privacy and intellectual property: a LawTech approach], Notizie
di Politeia, 2012, pp. 55-67.

DUCATO R., Insegnare l'etica delle professioni forensi attraverso le
trame narrative: suggestioni dalla satira di Baltasar Gracián [How to
teach the ethics of the legal professions: fascinating cues from Baltasar
Gracián¹s satire], Cultura e diritti, 2, pp. 67-75.

DUCATO R., Biobanks between Law and Technology: How to Promote Data
Sharing in the Digital Era, in BOSCARATO, CAROLEO, SANTOSUOSSO (eds),
Law&Science Young Scholars Informal Symposium - 2011 Round, Pavia
University Press, 2012, pp. 37-54.

DUCATO R., Un nuovo paradigma della filiazione? Dubbi di legittimità
costituzionale sul divieto di fecondazione eterologa [A new paradigm for
filiation? Doubts about the constitutionality of the ban on heterologous
insemination], in PASQUINO T. (a cura di), Antologia di casi
giurisprudenziali, Torino, Giappichelli, 2011, pp. 53-63.

DUCATO R., ³Lost in Legislation²: il diritto multilivello delle biobanche
di ricerca nel sistema delle fonti del diritto (convenzioni
internazionali, leggi europee, nazionali e regionali, softlaw) = ³Lost in
legislation²: The Multilevel Governance of Research Biobanks and the
Sources of Law (International Conventions, European, National and Regional
legislations, Softlaw), in Trento Law and Technology Research Group
Research Papers, n. 4, 2010, Trento: Università degli Studi di Trento.