Publications in peer-reviewed academic journals

Caruso, E. (2026) ‘Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy‘ Journal of Law and Society, published online first on 26 March.

Caruso, E. (2025). ‘How did you get in there and make the law work? Feminist activism, doctors and abortion law: the occupation of a hospital‘. 34(2) Social & Legal Studies 143 [open access]

• Winner of the Social & Legal Studies Editors’ Choice Award 2026
• First top trending journal article in the whole area of Law in the week in which it was published, on 27^th May 2024 (source OOIR: Observatory of International Research).

Caruso, E. (2023). ‘The Hyper-Regulation of Abortion Care in Italy‘. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, pp. 1-7, published online first on 19 September 2023 [open access]

• Ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by the journal in 2023.

Caruso, E. (2022). ‘Sull’aborto farmacologico in telemedicina: spunti di riflessione per un dibattito in Italia’ (Telemedical Early Medical Abortion: Notes for a Debate in Italy). Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento 49(2), pp. 169-188. (Special Issue on ‘Maternità negata, maternità rifiutata. Aborto tra Otto e Novecento’, edited by M. Garbellotti and C. Nubola).*

Caruso, E. (2021). ‘’Much Ado About Nothing?’ The New Policy on Early Medical Abortion (EMA) in Italy’. The Italian Law Journal 7(2), pp. 647-658 [open access].*

Caruso, E. (2021). Pickles, C. and Herring, J., eds. (2020). Women’s Birthing Bodies and the Law. Unauthorised Intimate Examinations, Power and Vulnerability. Oxford: Hart Publishing. Feminist Legal Studies, published online first on 14 September 2021.

Caruso, E. and Fisicaro, M. (2021). ‘Aborto e declino democratico in Polonia: una riflessione a margine della sentenza del Tribunale costituzionale del 22 ottobre 2020’ (‘Abortion and democratic decline in Poland: a reflection on the Constitutional Tribunal’s ruling of 22 October 2020’). Rivista di studi giuridici sull’orientamento sessuale e identità di genere GenIus, pp. 1- 27, published online first on 20 April 2021 [open access].*

Caruso, E. (2020). ‘The Ambivalence of Law: Some Observations on the Denied Access to Abortion Services in Italy’ (Special Issue on ‘Abortion in Ireland’, edited by S. Calkin, F. de Londras, G. Heathcote). Feminist Review 124, pp. 183-191.

Caruso, E. (2020). ‘Abortion in Italy: 40 years on’, Feminist Legal Studies 28, pp. 87-96  [open access]

• Most downloaded paper of the journal in 2020, with 2,255 accesses
• Cited in The New York Times on 15 December 2021.

Caruso, E. (2019). ‘Il crocevia mancato tra Roma e Strasburgo in materia di interruzione volontaria di gravidanza’ (‘The Missed Crossroads between Rome and Strasbourg in the Matter of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy’). La Comunità Internazionale 3, pp. 447-474.* 

Blog posts 

Caruso, E. (2024). Does History Matter?. Harvard Law’s Bill of Health, 1 November.

Caruso, E. and Marella, M. R. (2022). ‘Oltre Dobbs. E se parlassimo di aborto autogestito?‘. EuroNomade, 2 September.

Caruso, E. (2021). ‘Aborto farmacologico “autogestito” in telemedicina: una realtà anche in Italia ma il nostro Ssn lo ignora’. La27esima Ora, Corriere della Sera, 4 November.

Caruso, E. (2021). ‘ITALY – Eight years later, the right to health and non-discrimination in abortion services still not secured’. International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion, 14 April.

Caruso, E. (2020). ‘Il diritto di aborto e l’attivismo internazionale di Rebecca Gomperts’. La 27esima Ora, Corriere della Sera, 22 October.

Caruso, E. and Zanini, G. (2020). ‘Access to medical abortion in Italy is characterised by “unecessary burdens” and “unjustified barriers” – this has stayed the same during the pandemic’. International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion, 16 June.

Caruso, E. and Toschi, M. (2020). ‘In tempo di Covid-19 è necessario l’aborto telemedico. L’ospedalizzazione è un pericolo per la salute pubblica’. La 27esima Ora, Corriere della Sera, 26 March.

Exhibition Catalogue

Badalato, O., Baeri, E., Brancati, E., Caruso, E., Chiavaro, M., Cosentino, A., Fichera, R., Guarrera, K., Mollica, A., Palidda, R., Pecora, C. (2021). Anche la cancellazione è violenza, II ed. (I ed. 2016; Bologna: Assemblea Legislativa Emilia Romagna; available at this link), pp. 1-72.

 

* Publication in a first-class (‘Fascia A’) academic journal according to the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems (ANVUR).

 

ph: Elena Caruso