Elena Atienza-Macías
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN SPORTS LAW
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain
health law, bio-law and bioethics, sports law, doping regulations, big data
Elena Atienza-Macías has been a member of the Chair in Law and the Human Genome Research Group, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Bilbao, Spain) since December 2009; one of its fields of research has focused on Biolaw and Health Law. She has dealt with this subject at several international seminars and conferences and also as a member in many research projects. Besides this field of research, the study of doping in Sports Law is likewise an area of focus for Elena Atienza’s current research activities (and everything related to International and Comparative Law on the human genome and biotechnologies, especially gene doping). She finished her PhD dissertation, supervised by Prof Carlos María Romeo Casabona, concerning the legal and ethical implications of the use of performance enhancing drugs and new doping practices in sport within the Fundamentals of Law, Economic Law and Business Law, at the University of Deusto. Her dissertation also deals with a controversial subject such as the analysis of the legal implications on the use of biological samples and personal data for the purposes of doping control in the sport sector.
Elena coordinates the «Law and the Human Genome Review. Genetics, Biotechnology and Advanced Medicine» a journal edited, with the character of a bilingual publication (with papers in Spanish and English), by the Chair in Law and the Human Genome Research Group together with Dykinson Publishing House. It contains works by qualified specialists from national and foreign research centres and by professionals of renowned excellence, who provide their opinions and view points on legal and ethical issues posed by human genetics, guaranteeing the essential freedom of thought and the multiple approaches and ideas under a multidisciplinary approach, with a solid scientific, biotechnological, ethical-philosophical, humanistic and social basis.