Vicente Bellver Capella is professor of Philosophy of Law and Director of the Department of Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of Valencia (Spain). His fields of research are Human Rights, Political Ecology, Bioethics and Biolaw. He has published three books: Ecología: de las razones a los derechos, ¿Clonar? Ética y Derecho ante la clonación humana (translated into Italian) and Por una bioética razonable. He has also edited six books and published more than 180 book chapters or papers in scientific journals. He has been visiting scholar at the Universities of California at Berkeley, Boston, Princeton, Cambridge and Palermo.
He was temporary Magistrate of the Provincial Court of Valencia, Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Valencia and General Director of Scientific Policy of the Valencian government. He also was member of the Comité Directeur pour la Bioétique (CDBI) of the Council of Europe. He is member of the Spanish Bioethics Committee, the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Advisory Council of the International Center for Neuroscience and Ethics (Spain).