Dr Luciano Bottini Filho PhD LLM
Lecturer in Human Rights
- Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice
- Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice
- Social and Economic Research Institute
Summary
I explore human rights within global health law and governance, in particular how State obligations steer resource mobilisation and priority-setting decisions. My expertise also extends to economic and social rights in a broader context, encompassing litigation and social mobilisation, with a focus on employing decolonial methodologies in human rights research.
About
I am a lecturer within the human rights subject group, teaching on the MA/LLM in Applied Human Rights course and modules related to human rights at the Law and Criminology Department.
I possess a PhD from the University of Bristol, having been awarded the Modern Law Review Scholarship, and an LLM in International Human Rights from the University of Nottingham, where I was honored as a Chevening Scholar.
My research in health and human rights has been featured in esteemed publications such as the Health and Human Rights Journal and German Law Journal. I have served as an affiliated researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, as well as a member of the Global Health Law Consortium.
In my most recent endeavors in human rights advocacy and external engagements, I have actively participated in consultations and the drafting process of The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies. Furthermore, I have served as an external consultant to the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, where I provided a comprehensive report on the constitutionalisation of the right to health.
Before transitioning to academia, I worked as a journalist for over a decade, undertaking various reporting roles in Latin America for prominent regional news outlets. Throughout this period, I extensively covered human rights violations associated with the war on drugs, mass trials, judicial activism, and decisions pertaining to socio-economic rights.
Lecturer
Teaching
Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Courses taught:
Law, Criminology, LLM/MA in Applied Human Rights
Modules taught:
- Human Rights Advocacy
- Human Rights and Legal Scholarship
- Contemporary Migration
- Introduction to Criminology and Practice
Research
The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies
https://globalhealthlawconsortium.org/public-health-emergency-principles/
Human Rights in the revision of the International Health Regulations
https://globalhealthlawconsortium.org/international-health-regulations/
Health financing and the right to health in constitutions:
https://www.who.int/groups/who-council-on-the-economics-of-health-for-all
Link 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9212825/#:~:text=The%20right%20to%20health%20was%20the%20most%20commonly%20given%20legal,only%20nine%20cases%20being%20refused
Link 2: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/centre-for-studies-and-research-in-international-law-and-international-relations/*A9789004508316_18
Link 3: https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781800373655/book-part-9781800373655-55.xml?rskey=1Tfzus&result=43
Publications
Journal articles
Ely Yamin, A., Bottini Filho, L., & Gianella Malca, C. (2024). Analysing governments’ progress on the right to health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 102 (5), 307-313. http://doi.org/10.2471/blt.23.290184
Meier, B.M., Filho, L., Bueno de Mesquita, J., Habibi, R., Sekalala, S., & Gostin, L.O. (2023). A critical juncture for human rights in global health: Strengthening human rights through global health law reforms. PLOS Global Public Health, 3 (12). http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002663
Filho, L. (2023). The Legal Determinants of Scarcity: Expanding Human Rights Advocacy for Affordability of Health Technologies. Health and human rights, 25 (2), 205-217. https://www.hhrjournal.org/2023/12/the-legal-determinants-of-scarcity-expanding-human-rights-advocacy-for-affordability-of-health-technologies/
Filho, L.B. (2022). The right to health as a tool of social control: compulsory treatment orders by courts in Brazil. Health and human rights journal, 24 (1), 159-169. https://www.hhrjournal.org/2022/06/the-right-to-health-as-a-tool-of-social-control-compulsory-treatment-orders-by-courts-in-brazil/
Bottini Filho, L. (2021). Covid-19 Through Brazilian Courts: The Deserving and the Undeserving Vulnerable. German Law Journal, 22 (6), 1098-1114. http://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2021.55
Conference papers
Filho, L. (2021). Killing Locally or Killing Globally: Inequalities in Framing Cooperation through Pandemics. In Yamin, A., Villareal, P., & Grogan, J. (Eds.) International Pandemic Lawmaking, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, Middlesex University London, a, 20 September 2021 - 4 November 2021 (pp. 18-19). The Petrie-Flom Center: https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/assets/publications/International_Pandemic_Lawmaking_(November_2021).pdf
Book chapters
Bottini Filho, L. (2023). Everything Is Unconstitutional. In Justice in Global Health. (pp. 59-81). Routledge: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003399933-6
Filho, L.B. (2023). Disabilities, evidence-making and quality of life: the three core human rights principles framework. In Research Handbook on Disability Policy. (pp. 551-564). Edward Elgar Publishing: http://doi.org/10.4337/9781800373655.00055
Filho, L. (2021). State positive obligations and the international right to health in epidemics: how much should be enough? In Epidemics and International Law. BRILL
Other activities
Postgraduate supervision
- Global Health Law and Human Rights
- Economic and Social Rights
- Courts, human rights and social change
- International Human Rights