Alice Margaria is a Research Fellow in the Law and Anthropology Department of the Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute, Florence. Her previous book Nuove forme di filiazione e genitorialità: leggi e giudici di fronte alle nuove realtà (2018) explores the role of national judges in bridging the gap between the social and the legal realities of families created via assisted reproduction, from a comparative perspective. She was invited as a visiting scholar at various institutions, such as Emory University, Atlanta, and Lunds universitet. She also worked with international organisations, including the UNICEF Office of Research.