Human Rights, Development & Equality is my longest-standing and closest(-to heart) thematic area; within it I have explored, in particular, two issue areas, notably the recent (and not so recent) Contestations and Counter-Contestations of Human Rights, a topic I have more or less continuously worked on since my doctoral studies – most recently in the context of an external collaboration with the Berlin Cluster of Excellence on Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS), as well as (Social) Rights and/in Development, which includes, inter alia, work on the ‘law and development’ movement’s entanglement with human rights, on the role of social (and economic) rights in and for distributive justice and in development and austerity contexts, as well as on the impact of the rights-based judicialization of social policy (in particular of public health).
Here is a list of (some) current engagements and/or projects, as well as recent publications associated with the theme and its sub-themes:
(i) Contestations and Counter-Contestations of Human Rights
- Engagements & Projects
- External Associate and Senior Research Fellow (Oct. 2024 – Feb 2025) @ Berlin Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS) / Project: De-Centering Human Rights: Liberalism, Human Rights, and the Global South led by Tobias Berger, Anna Holzscheiter & Thomas Risse
- Recent Publications and ´In Pipeline´
- ‘Beyond Utopia: Contestations and Counter-Contestations of Human Rights in the (Latin American) Global South’, in Anna Holzscheiter, Tobias Berger, and Thomas Risse (eds.), De-Centering Human Rights: Liberalism, Human Rights, and the Global South (forthcoming 2025)
- ‘On the Value of Rights’ in Isabelle Feichtner and Geoff Gordon (eds.), Constitutions of Value: Law, Governance, and Political Ecology (Routledge 2023)
- The Struggle for Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Philip Alston (Nehal Bhuta, Florian Hoffmann, Sarah Knuckey, Frédéric Mégret, and Margaret Satterthwaite (eds.)), Oxford University Press 2021)
- ´Introduction´ (with Nehal Bhuta, Sarah Knuckey, Frédéric Mégret, and Margaret Satterthwaite)
- ‘Quite Enough (Still): Human Rights in (Times of) Crisis´
- ‘(De)Colonizing Human Rights’ (with Bethania Assy) in Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann (eds.), The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era (Oxford University Press 2019)
- ‘Towards a (radically) decolonial anthropology: revisiting the Iberian school of peace’s encounter with (the rights of) Amerindians’ (with Bethania Assy), Direito, Estado e Sociedade (2018)
(ii) (Social) Rights and/in Development
- Engagements & Projects
- ‘Assessing the Impact of the Judicialization of Public Policies: a (Systemic) Social Accountability Perspective’, Productivity Stipend (CnPq/PQ), 2019-
- ‘Human Rights and the Judicialization of Public Policies’, Rio de Janeiro State Scientist Stipent (FAPERJ/CNE), 2021-2024
- ‘Spheres of Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro and Berlin: Rights, Frontiers, Agencies’, Brazil-Germany Research Grant (CAPES/DAAD-PROBRAL), Associate Researcher, 2018-2022
- ‘The Regulation of Food Environments in Brazil – the cases of commercial freedom of speech and private autonomy in public health’, Project Grant (O’Neill Institute/Global Center for Innovation in Food Environments, Georgetown University), Principal Investigator (with Fabio Leite & Thamis Dalsenter), 2018-2023
- ‘Development of Brazil Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct’, Consultancy (with Simone Rocha), OECD, 2021-22
- ‘Human rights analysis on vulnerable groups and COVID—19 response in Ecuador (SURGE)’, Consultancy (with Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky & Ruth Alicia Urbano), OHCHR/Ecuador 2020-21
- ‘The Future of Social and Economic Rights’ (Special Course 2015) and ‘Social Rights and Distributive Justice’ (General Course 2018), Academy of European and Human Rights Law, European University Institute (Florence/Italy)
- Recent Publications and ´In Pipeline´
- ‘Human Rights and Development’ (with Danielle Hanna Rached) in Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava and Sundhya Pahuja (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Law and Development (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023)
- ‘Twin Siblings: Fresh Perspectives on Law in Development (and Vice Versa)’, Leiden Journal of International Law 30 (2017) 267-287.
- ‘Revolution or Regression? Retracing the Turn to Rights in ‘Law and Development’’ Finnish Yearbook of International Law 23 (2016) 45-72
- ‘Accountability for Social and Economic Rights in Brazil’ (with Fernando M.N. Bentes) in Varun Gauri and Daniel Brinks (eds.), Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World (Cambridge University Press 2008)
Human Rights, Development & Equality is my longest-standing and closest(-to heart) thematic area;
within it I have explored, in particular, two issue areas, notably the recent (and not so
recent) Contestations and Counter-Contestations of Human Rights, a topic I have
more or less continuously worked on since my doctoral studies – most recently in the
context of an external collaboration with the Berlin Cluster of Excellence on Contestations
of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS), as well as (Social) Rights and/in Development, which
includes, inter alia, work on the ‘law and development’ movement’s entanglement with
human rights, on the role of social (and economic) rights in and for distributive justice and
in development and austerity contexts, as well as on the impact of the rights-based
judicialization of social policy (in particular of public health).
Here is a list of (some) current engagements and/or projects, as well as recent publications associated with the theme and its sub-themes:
(i) Contestations and Counter-Contestations of Human Rights
- Engagements & Projects
- External Associate and Senior Research Fellow (Oct. 2024 – Feb 2025) @ Berlin Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS) / Project: De-Centering Human Rights: Liberalism, Human Rights, and the Global South led by Tobias Berger, Anna Holzscheiter & Thomas Risse
- Recent Publications and ´In Pipeline´
- ‘Beyond Utopia: Contestations and Counter-Contestations of Human Rights in the (Latin American) Global South’, in Anna Holzscheiter, Tobias Berger, and Thomas Risse (eds.), De-Centering Human Rights: Liberalism, Human Rights, and the Global South (forthcoming 2025)
- ‘On the Value of Rights’ in Isabelle Feichtner and Geoff Gordon (eds.), Constitutions of Value: Law, Governance, and Political Ecology (Routledge 2023)
- The Struggle for Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Philip Alston (Nehal Bhuta, Florian Hoffmann, Sarah Knuckey, Frédéric Mégret, and Margaret Satterthwaite (eds.)), Oxford University Press 2021)
- ´Introduction´ (with Nehal Bhuta, Sarah Knuckey, Frédéric Mégret, and Margaret Satterthwaite)
- ‘Quite Enough (Still): Human Rights in (Times of) Crisis´
- ‘(De)Colonizing Human Rights’ (with Bethania Assy) in Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann (eds.), The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era (Oxford University Press 2019)
- ‘Towards a (radically) decolonial anthropology: revisiting the Iberian school of peace’s encounter with (the rights of) Amerindians’ (with Bethania Assy), Direito, Estado e Sociedade (2018)
(ii) (Social) Rights and/in Development
- Engagements & Projects
- ‘Assessing the Impact of the Judicialization of Public Policies: a (Systemic) Social Accountability Perspective’, Productivity Stipend (CnPq/PQ), 2019-
- ‘Human Rights and the Judicialization of Public Policies’, Rio de Janeiro State Scientist Stipent (FAPERJ/CNE), 2021-2024
- ‘Spheres of Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro and Berlin: Rights, Frontiers, Agencies’, Brazil-Germany Research Grant (CAPES/DAAD-PROBRAL), Associate Researcher, 2018-2022
- ‘The Regulation of Food Environments in Brazil – the cases of commercial freedom of speech and private autonomy in public health’, Project Grant (O’Neill Institute/Global Center for Innovation in Food Environments, Georgetown University), Principal Investigator (with Fabio Leite & Thamis Dalsenter), 2018-2023
- ‘Development of Brazil Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct’, Consultancy (with Simone Rocha), OECD, 2021-22
- ‘Human rights analysis on vulnerable groups and COVID—19 response in Ecuador (SURGE)’, Consultancy (with Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky & Ruth Alicia Urbano), OHCHR/Ecuador 2020-21
- ‘The Future of Social and Economic Rights’ (Special Course 2015) and ‘Social Rights and Distributive Justice’ (General Course 2018), Academy of European and Human Rights Law, European University Institute (Florence/Italy)
- Recent Publications and ´In Pipeline´
- ‘Human Rights and Development’ (with Danielle Hanna Rached) in Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava and Sundhya Pahuja (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Law and Development (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023)
- ‘Twin Siblings: Fresh Perspectives on Law in Development (and Vice Versa)’, Leiden Journal of International Law 30 (2017) 267-287.
- ‘Revolution or Regression? Retracing the Turn to Rights in ‘Law and Development’’ Finnish Yearbook of International Law 23 (2016) 45-72
- ‘Accountability for Social and Economic Rights in Brazil’ (with Fernando M.N. Bentes) in Varun Gauri and Daniel Brinks (eds.), Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World (Cambridge University Press 2008)