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• Daniela Carpi,

  Daniela Carpi is Full Professor of English Literature at the Faculty of Foreign Literatures, Department of English Studies, University of Verona. Her fields of research are: Renaissance theatre, critical theory, postmodernism, law and literature, literature and science, literature and visual arts. She collaborates with Ombre Corte in Verona, where she directs a section “Culture” devoted to comparative criticism and a section “Agon” on law and culture; with DeGruyter in Berlin, where she edits (with professor Klaus Stierstorfer) the series “Law and Literature.” She is the Coordinator of the Doctoral Course in English Studies at the University of Verona. She is in the scientific board of the journals Symbolism: a Journal of Critical Aesthetics (New York), Anglistik (Heidelberg), La torre di Babele (Parma), Law and Humanities (Warwick), Cardozo Law Bulletin (University of Trento). She has founded the Associazione Italiana di Diritto e Letteratura (AIDEL), which she presides. Among her most recent publications she has edited the volumes: The Concept of Equity: an Interdisciplinary Assessment (Heidelberg: Winter, 2007); Practising Equity, Addressing Law (Heidelberg: Winter, 2008); Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature (Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, 2011).