Talks
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Back to Square One: Legal Gatekeeping and Trans Parenthood
Panels on Diversity in the Courtroom / Gender and the Law / Career paths (Alumni panel)
20 / 21 October 2025, Talk & Panel Discussions on the Max Planck Law Annual Conference 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Detailed program
Trans Parenthood and the Art of Legal Mirror-Climbing
23 October 2025, Conference on Birthing, Mothering and Othering: Actors, Representations and Practices in Global Maternal and Reproductive Care Journeys (20 – 24 Oct 2025), University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Full program
The Gender of Legal Fictions: Surrogacy before the ECtHR
14 November 2025, Female Fundamental Freedoms – Symposium der Forschungsstelle für fundamentale Rechte (12 – 14 Nov 2025), Universität Bayreuth, Germany. Full program (draft) (PDF, 448 KB)
Panel discussion on “Genitori oltre gli schemi” (parents outside the box)
20 September 2025, Panel discussion with Daniele Biaggini (moderator), Federico Calemme, Rachel Weibe & Margherita Fiengo Pardi at MiX 39, International LGBTQ+ and Queer Culture Film Festival (18 – 21 Sept 2025) in Milano, Italy.
Flyer of Panel (JPG, 255 KB)
MiX 39 Website
From the legal to the social – and back again
17 September 2025, Doctoral program in law (16 – 17 Sept 2025) of the Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale at Crêt-Bérard in Puidoux, Switzerland. Detailed program
Juggling Justice: Views from the Strasbourg Bench
10 September 2025, IG Pre-Workshops of ESIL Annual Conference 2025 on Interdisciplinarity and the (re)construction of international law (11 – 13 Sept 2025), hosted at the Department of Law of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Full program pre-workshops (PDF, 281 KB)
A Right to a Mother? The Right to Know One’s Origin in Litigation concerning Trans Families in Europe
30 May 2025, Workshop on Assisted Reproduction Is Coming of Age: ARTs before the Legislative and Social Claims of the Conceived, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain. Full program (PDF, 86 KB)
Trans Legal Parenthood in Europe and the Costs of Overlooked Sterilisation Rationales as part of the panel ‘Let's Talk: A Conversation about Institutions, Narratives, and Power and Resistance’
Book Presentation “Leading Works in Law and Anthropology” as part of the panel ‘Theory in Action: New Books in New Legal Realism’
22–25 May 2025,Law and Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA.
Trans Birthing Men, Birth Registration and the Costs of Unchallenged Sterilisation Rationales
15 May 2025, Interdisciplinary Workshop on ‘Men, Masculinities and Reproduction’ at Brocher Foundation, Hermance. Full schedule available on the H2R Website .
The Socio-Legal Construction of Parenthood in Swiss Reproductive Medicine Law
20 February 2025, Workshop on the Revision of the Reproductive Medicine Act: Key Points of a New Regulation, University of Basel. Informations available here.
What's Law got to do with it? Seeking Justice in Social and Political Transformations - Recent Anthropological Perspectives
12 February 2025, 2nd Conference of the Swiss Network for Law and Society (SNLS), University of Bern. Details can be found here.
Trans Legal Parenthood and the Costs of Overlooked Sterilisation Rationales
16 December 2024, 12.15 to 13.35 (in person), Lecture series "Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: Reproductive Ethics", Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel
The Future of Egg Donation (and Beyond) in Switzerland
25 November 2024, Seminar Series "Ethics and Politics of Family and Reproduction", University of Basel (hybrid). More information can be found here
Gender Neutral Legal Parenthood: A Conversation
21 November 2024, FLIC-workshop: "The Neutrality of Family Law: Between Framing and Substance", Max-Planck-Institut Hamburg (with Dafni Lima). More information can be found here
Trans Reproduction and Legal Parenthood: Lived Experiences and Legal Mirror Climbing
30 May 2024 (16.30–17.30), Talk as part of the International Doctoral Seminar in Health Law (séminaire doctoral international en droit de la santé), University of Neuchâtel. The program can be found here (PDF, 290 KB).
Degendering Legal Parenthood: Possibilities and Side Effects
7 May 2024 (12.00–13.00), Online talk at the Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law (UCERF).
The Strasbourg Compromise: Family Diversity before the ECtHR
1 March 2024, London School of Economics (London, UK), Regulating Parenting: A Critical Perspective
Juggling Justice: Insights from the Strasbourg Bench
29 February 2024 (15.00–17.00), University College London (London, UK), School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES). Information can be found here.
Family Law Pluralism and its Unintended Consequences: The Case of Degendering Legal Parenthood
23 February 2024 (10.00–12.00 EST), online and at Emory Law School (Atlanta, USA), FLT at 40: The Family and the Constitution of Everyday Life
Back to Square One? Legal Hurdles and Possibilities for Trans (Prospective) Parents in Europe
22 February 2024 (17.15–18.00), University of Graz, Reproductive Justice in the Context of Queer and Trans Reproduction with Assisted Reproductive Technologies. The program can be found here.
"Legal Parenthood: between Change and Continuity"
8 – 9 February 2024, University of Geneva, Conference Justice, Care, Responsibility: Rethinking the Family from a Legal and Philosophical Perspective
"Where does it start and end? (Legal) gender misalignment waiting at the gate"
29 – 30 November 2023, Presentation at the International Conference Reproductive Trouble? Technology, Gender, Politics, Institute for Gender Studies, Geneva School of Social Sciences, University of Geneva. The conference’s program can be found here.
"Trans*(forming) Legal Parenthood?"
1 November 2023 (13.00–14.00), Presentation at the Maastricht Center for Human Rights
Seahorse Dads and Birth Registration: Challenging Conventional (Legal) Fatherhood
26 October 2023, Brown Bag Lunch
"Demystifying the European Court of Human Rights"
15 September 2023, Panel on "Fatherhood and Labour", at Gender(ed) Labour: Swiss Association of Gender Studies Conference 2023, Program is available here.
"Registering Births: What's Care Got to Do with it?"
26 May 2023, Online talk. Details are available here.
EU Family Law Webinar Series
27 April – 5 May 2023, Full schedule and links are available on the NovaLaw Website here.