The Legal Anatomy of the Body Health, Rights, and Politics in Times of Emergency

Mauro Balestrieri
is Associate Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Turin. His research explores comparative jurisprudence, legal theory, and the cultural and historical formation of legal institutions. He is co-author of Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law (Edward Elgar, 2023) and co-editor of The Grand Strategy of Comparative Law (Routledge, 2024).

Alice Cauduro
is Assistant Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Turin, where she also teaches Pharmaceutical Law. Her research focuses on medical law, public health, and access to medicines. She has published extensively on these areas, starting with the open-access book L’accesso al farmaco (Ledizioni, 2017). During a research period at the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Cambridge, she worked on pharmaceutical expenditure governance in the UK and Italy, leading to the publication of an article in the European Journal of Health Law (2026).