Alkorta, Itziar

Itziar Alkorta Idiakez is Professor of Civil Law at the University of the Basque Country (EHU). Her academic career has been devoted primarily to bioethics, with particular attention to healthcare law, the regulation of assisted reproduction, women’s reproductive rights, data protection in health research, and the use of artificial intelligence in medical devices.

She is the author of five monographs and more than fifty peer-reviewed articles in specialized journals. She has participated in more than thirty international conferences and seminars and has been involved in several European research projects related to biotechnology, including SMART-BEAR, PropEUR, NEWR, PANELFIT, and OPEN DEI. She has undertaken research stays at leading international institutions, including the University of Bordeaux, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Hastings Center in New York. She has supervised several international PhD dissertations and has actively promoted the training of young researchers through competitive research contracts.

She obtained her PhD with a dissertation on the regulation of assisted reproduction, a field in which she has continued to publish extensively. Her research includes a series of books and articles on bioethics and data protection.

Her second line of research is Basque Civil Law, in which she has made significant contributions, particularly in the area of the codification of Basque private law and the historical legal status of women. In this field, she is the author of two monographs on the codification of Basque Private Law (Serie Echegaray, Codificación del Derecho Privado Vasco, 2017) and has edited two special issues of the journal Iura Vasconiae (issues XXI and XXII), which are the result of two symposia she organized in 2024 and 2025, respectively, on the legal position of women in historical Basque law. She is currently supervising a doctoral dissertation on the Basque model of succession from the perspective of comparative legal sociology.