Vitulia Ivone

Vitulia Ivone, J.D., is an Associate Professor of Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Salerno. Her scientific interests are especially focused on bioethical and biolegal subjects concerning the right to health and the beginning and End of Life. Besides the classical topics of private law, her interests also include gender, intellectual property, freedom of scientific research, protection of cultural property, and biotechnologies. She is the principal investigator of national and international research projects funded by the University of Salerno, including “Beginning and end of life: the consent paradigm” (FARB 2014) and a member of the research group of the Italo-German Vigoni Project 2011-2012, “Legal and ethical questions raised by the End-of-Life decision-making process in Germany and Italy: a comparative and international law perspective,” co-directed by Professors Jochen Taupitz and Stefania Negri, as well as a member of the research group of the international research project funded by the University of Salerno on “Bioethics and international law in the relationship between life, death and human dignity.”