Natalia Pires de Vasconcelos

Natalia Pires de Vasconcelos is a lawyer and social scientist with extensive experience in legal-empirical research. Her work examines how legal institutions can impact people’s health and well-being. She holds a Ph.D. in Law and B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo and an L.L.M. from Yale Law School. She is also a founding member of LAUT – Center for the Analysis of Liberty and Authoritarianism, a think tank specializing in socio-legal research about the impact of authoritarian practices on democracy and welfare in Brazil. She was an assistant professor of Law at Insper, São Paulo, between 2019 and 2022, and 2024-2025 Global Health and Rights Project Affiliated Researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. She is also pursuing a second doctoral degree in sociology at the University of Georgia and will soon begin a faculty position at the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Miami.