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🔓 Open Access Chapter Spotlight: The Impact of Human Rights on Private International Law: The Danish and Swedish Responses to International and Domestic Surrogacy, by Erik Sinander.

Published in the volume "Surrogacy Today: A European Legal Overview," edited by Takis Vidalis and Ismini Kriari, this article examines how developments in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights have influenced the legal treatment of surrogacy in Sweden and Denmark, particularly in relation to cross-border surrogacy arrangements and the recognition of parent–child relationships.

🔗 The article is available to read and download free of charge, while the complete volume "Surrogacy Today: A European Legal Overview" is also available in paperback from our website: https://shorturl.at/MDPTj

📢 New Release (in Spanish)

⏳ RUEDAS, CAMPANAS Y TARDONES: RELOJES MECÁNICOS EN LA CASTILLA BAJOMEDIEVAL by Víctor Pérez Álvarez is now freely available to read online.

Time didn’t always tick the way it does today. This book explores how the first mechanical clocks, installed in Castilian cities from the late fourteenth century onward, reshaped daily life. More than technical devices, these clocks became symbols of civic pride and good governance, while also carrying rich meanings in religious, philosophical, and cultural thought—from reflections on vanitas to models of the universe itself. The author also discusses the craftsmanship behind them, revealing the technical challenges faced by early clockmakers and the profound shift in how societies began to measure and experience time.

📖 Available in Spanish via Trivent Publishing: https://shorturl.at/FxaXE

📢 Some ideas refuse to stay in the realm of metaphor. 🩸 We’re opening the for the online conference “AN EXTRAORDINARY SUBSTANCE: A HISTORY OF BLOOD AND DEMONS ACROSS TIME” (3 October 2026)

From ancient worlds to the nineteenth century, this event explores how blood and demons were understood as real, embodied forces across cultures—appearing in texts, rituals, medicine, and material life. If your work crosses boundaries or challenges assumptions, we’d love to hear from you.

✍️ The papers will be published by Trivent Publishing.

More information and registration here: https://sites.google.com/view/bloodanddemons2026

🔓 Open Access Chapter Spotlight: How far can law go in regulating the creation of life (and should it)?

📘 We’ve just released the introduction to the edited collection SURROGACY TODAY: A EUROPEAN LEGAL OVERVIEW, edited by Takis Vidalis and Ismini Kriari - an entry point into one of the most debated issues in contemporary bioethics. In this opening chapter, Silvia Salardi traces how the reproductive revolution that began with Louise Brown reshaped our understanding of family, human dignity, and legal responsibility, showing why surrogacy continues to generate radically different legal responses across Europe, including in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, and why no single philosophical framework has yet managed to settle the tension between individual desires, technological possibilities, and the rights of all those involved.

👉 Read it now on our website and explore the full volume for a deeper understading of the legal and ethical complexities of surrogacy today: https://shorturl.at/k1OPa.

Printed copies of the book will be available in May!