INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEUROTECHNOLOGY IN THE AGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2025
September 17th, 2025
Online Conference
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CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION
We are pleased to announce the online International Conference on Neurotechnology in the Age of Human Rights. This conference aims to provide a symposium dedicated to young legal scholars interested in discussing key issues in the current debate on neurotechnology.
Neurotechnology is at the center of the institutional discussion at the international, regional, and national levels. This technology raises numerous ethical and legal questions as it allows direct access to the human brain posing relevant threats and challenges to human rights. The legal discussion is focused on neurorights. In this framework, numerous legal issues are still open.
What are the opportunities and risks of the neurorights’ approach? Indeterminacy and difficulty of implementation are just some of the objections to introducing new rights in the current list of human rights. How can these objections be overcome? Are there relevant alternatives to this approach? How are the legal challenges of neurotechnology addressed at the national level? How are the different challenges in medicine, outside medicine, and in the forensic field legally addressed? Are there already legal rules or what are the perspectives de jure condendo?
Analyses from a biolegal perspective will be highly welcome.
PROPOSED TOPICS
Possible conference entries include (but are not limited to):
● legal theory
● political theory
● philosophy of law
● bioethics
● biolaw
ORGANIZERS
The organizers for the conference are
Silvia Salardi, Associate Professor, University of Milano - Bicocca
together with the Editors of the book series “BioLaw in the 21st Century,”
and in collaboration with with Trivent Publishing
SUBMISSIONS
A limited number of paper proposals will be accepted based on the following two-part procedure. First, interested authors are asked to send their abstracts to silvia.salardi@unimib.it for a blind peer selection within the given deadline. Second, the Authors of the selected abstracts will be invited to write a full article to be presented at the conference. Authors of the selected papers will have the opportunity to publish their article in the proceedings of the conference in the new book series Biolaw in the 21st Century by Trivent Publishing after peer review.
Abstract requirements: Title + abstract (max 500 words) + 3 keywords + author short bio
Full paper word-count: max 8.000-10.000 words (including footnotes and bibliography)
The conference language will be English.
DATES AND DEADLINES
Abstract submission open between: April 28, 2025 and May 28, 2025
Abstract acceptance: within two weeks after abstract submission
Full paper deadline: August 31, 2025
Publication foreseen for January 2026
PUBLICATION
The proceedings of this conference will be published in
Biolaw in the 21st Century (ed. Takis Vidalis, International Hellenic University)
CONFERENCE FEES
The International Conference on Neurotechnology in the Age of Human Rights requires no participation fees.
CONTACT
For any questions, please contact us at:
Prof. Silvia Salardi, silvia.salardi@unimib.it
publishing@trivent-publishing.eu
