Education
1972: Degree in Law (score 110/110) University of Naples (Italy).

Profession
Amedeo Santosuosso was a Judge at the Court of Milan from 1978 to 2004. Springtime 2004 he was appointed Judge at the Milan Court of Appeal, where he serves in the 2nd Civil Division.

Since 1997 he has cooperated with the Scientific Committee of the Italian Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (The Supreme Council of the Judiciary) in teaching and in the organization of courses on biotechnology and bioethics. He is author of the project on "Education in Bioethics", approved by the Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (November 1998).

He took part in the ad hoc committee on Hydration and Nutrition in PVS patients, set up by the Italian Minister of Health in October 2000, and in the ad hoc committee on Transplants from living donors, set up by the Minister of Health in March 2001.

Academic Position
Since the Academic Year 2001-2002 he has been Professor (annual post) at the State University of Milan, Faculty of Law (Chair of Constitutional Law), and has taught a course on Le nuove dimensioni della libertà personale (New aspects of personal freedom).
In the Academic Year 2004-2005 he also teaches Law and Life sciences at the Faculty of Law, University of Pavia.

He is President of the Interdepartmental Centre of the University of Pavia European Centre for Life Sciences, Health and the Courts (which is acting as provisional headquarters and main promoter of the European Network for Life Sciences, Health and the Courts, ENLSC).

February-March 2005
Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Boston College Law School.

Books
He has written numerous essays on fundamental rights considering new technological applications, genetics and patients’ rights.
Among his books are:

§ Libertà di cura e libertà di terapia. La medicina tra razionalità scientifica e soggettività del malato, Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore, Roma 1998;

§ Malati di rischio. Implicazione etiche, legali e psicosociali dei test genetici in oncologia, Masson, Milano 1999.

§ Corpo e libertà. Una storia tra diritto e scienza, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano 2001.

§ Bioethical Matters and the Courts: do Judges Make Law?, Notizie di Politeia, n.65/2002 (special issue, A.Santosuosso - G.Gennari, eds.)

§ A.Santosuosso, C.A.Redi, S.Garagna, M.Zuccotti (eds), I giudici davanti alla genetica, Ibis, Como-Pavia 2002

§ A.Santosuosso, S.Garagna, C.A.Redi, M.Zuccotti (eds), Le tecniche della biologia e gli arnesi del diritto, Ibis, Como-Pavia 2003

§ A.Santosuosso - G.Gennari – S.Garagna – M.Zuccotti - C.A.Redi (eds), Science, Law and the Courts in Europe, Ibis, Como-Pavia (I), 2004

Articles
Among his articles are:

§ A.Santosuosso, Informed consent to clinical research, in The Italian Journal of Neurological Sciences, n.5, 1997 (suppl.), pp.15-20

§ A.Santosuosso – G.Gennari, Informazione, libertà e medicina in Giappone: riflessioni a margine di una sentenza, in Il Foro italiano, 2001, IV, p.453

§ A.Santosuosso, Constitution and Common Law in Bioethics, in Bioethics, October 2001, vol. 15, no. 5&6;

§ A.Santosuosso, Judge-made law e dichiarazioni dei diritti in bioetica, Politica del diritto, 2001, 1, pp.55-63

§ A.Santosuosso, The Right to Genetic Disobedience: The Iceland Case, in C.M.Mazzoni (ed.), Ethics and Law in Biological Research, Kluwer Law International, UK 2002.

§ A.Santosuosso, Judges Without (Written) Laws: Remedy or New Prospect?, in A.Santosuosso- G.Gennari (eds.), Bioethical Matters and the Courts: do Judges Make Law?), Notizie di Politeia, Special Issue, n.65, 2002

§ A.Santosuosso, Rights of Data-Subjects, Obligations of Data-Holders and Protection from Personal Identifiability, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Juridical and Psychosocial Implications of Human Genetics (Roma, 22–23 March, 2002).

§ A.Santosuosso, Persone fisiche e confini biologici: chi determina chi, Politica del diritto, 2002, n.3, pp.525-547

§ A.Santosuosso – G.Gennari, Regarding the project for an International Reference Court On Biotechnology, paper presented at the Courts Second International Working Conversations on Biotechnology Issues: Acquisition of Life Sciences & Technologies Information By Courts and Related Tribunals (Ottawa, 14-17 June, 2002), in print.

§ A.Santosuosso, Integrità della persona, medicina e biologia: l’art.3 della Carta di Nizza, Danno e responsabilità, 2002, n.8-9, pp809-816
§ A.Santosuosso – C.A. Redi, The need for scientists and judges to work together: regarding a new European network, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003,1 :22 (http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/22)

§ A.Santosuosso – G.Gennari – C.A.Redi, Science, Law and the Courts in Europe. Introduction, in A.Santosuosso - G.Gennari – S.Garagna – M.Zuccotti - C.A.Redi (eds), Science, Law and the Courts in Europe, Ibis, Como-Pavia (I), 2004