INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEUROTECHNOLOGY IN THE AGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2025

To whom: staff and students from INVEST partner universities
When: September 17th, 2025
Where: online – University of Milano-Bicocca
Registration link: https://form.jotform.com/252014796730356

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.

More information: https://trivent-publishing.eu/110-international-conference-on-neurotechnology-in-the-age-of-human-rights-2025

Organizing HEI: University of Milano-Bicocca
Responsible person: Prof. Silvia Salardi, silvia.salardi@unimib.it