Luana Mathias Souto is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Gender and ICT Research Group (Interdisciplinary Internet Institute – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). She is the Principal Investigator of the project “Reproductive Health under Algorithm Surveillance” (THELMA), for which Horizon Europe awarded her a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship in the 2023 call.
She holds doctoral and master’s degrees in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais – PUC Minas (Brazil). Her doctoral dissertation about the effectiveness of women’s political rights received a Magna cum Laude distinction. It was granted a CAPES scholarship and a CAPES/PDSE scholarship for a short research stay at the University of Vechta (Germany) – Department of Philosophy.
She is a theoretical and interdisciplinary legal researcher focused on Legal Theory, Law and Literature, Human Rights, Democracy, and Gender Studies. Her work is based on a feminist legal theory with biopolitical analyses of gender issues. Her last published book chapter is about the biopolitical perspective in women’s legal education as part of the Routledge-edited book Biopolitics and Structure in Legal Education.
She also worked as a visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt (MPILHLT/2023) and Hamburg (MPIPriv/2024) and as a Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin (2024). In Brazil, she was dedicated to public advocacy as a lawyer and taught legal methodology to undergraduate students at CEDIN Law School.
Contact
E-mail: lmathiass@uoc.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-6961-0187
Social
Academia.edu, ResearchGate, LinkedIn
Selected publications
Souto, L. M. [Luana Mathias], Holl, J. [In press]. Gender Representation in the Brazilian Judiciary: Reflections upon a case study of the right to abortion. In I. Krstic, S. Baer, & I. Jelić (Eds.), Gender and the Judiciary. Gender Perspectives in Law Series, Springer.
Souto, L. M. [Luana Mathias]. (2023). The Biopolitical Perspective in Women’s Legal Education. In Thomas Giddens and Luca Siliquini-Cinelli (Eds.), Biopolitics and Structure in Legal Education. Routledge.
Souto, L. M. [Luana Mathias]. (2023). Lógica algorítmica e representação feminina na política: novos (velhos) desafios. In J. A.L Sampaio et al. (Org.). A inteligência artificial: a (de)serviço do Estado de Direito. 1ed.Belo Horizonte: RTM (p. 329-348). OPEN ACCESS – Link to full text
Souto, L. M. [Luana Mathias], & Almeida, L. M. G. (2023). Questões de gênero e a (in)eficácia da prestação jurisdicional eleitoral: retrocesso na efetivação das ações afirmativas de ampliação da representatividade de gênero na política. In A. R. S. Cruz et.al. (Org.). Minorias Visíveis. 1ed. São Paulo: Dialética, v. 1 (p. 353-384).
Souto, L. M. [Luana Mathias]. (2022). Do tiranicídio ao impeachment: as formas de destituição do poder. 1. ed. São Paulo: Dialética.
Souto, G. M. M. [Gisleule Maria Menezes], & Souto, L. M. [Luana Mathias]. (2022). A Hora da Estrela, de Clarice Lispector: Reflexões sobre violência de gênero no Brasil. Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito, 8(2), 2022. OPEN ACCESS – Link to full text
Souto, L. M. [Luana Mathias], & Souto, G. M. M. [Gisleule Maria Menezes]. (2022). (Des)velando o Feminismo Decolonial. reflexões sobre a violência política de gênero na américa latina. Revista da Faculdade de Direito (UFU), 49: 218-237. https://doi.org/10.14393/RFADIR-v49n2a2021-65173. OPEN ACCESS – Link to full text
Sampaio, J. A. L. [José Adércio Leite], & Souto, L. M. [Luana Mathias]. (2021). Ausência de interseccionalidade nas políticas públicas de promoção da igualdade de gênero na política brasileira. Revista Do Direito, 64. https://doi.org/10.17058/rdunisc.vi64.15671 OPEN ACCESS – Link to full text
Sampaio, J. A. L. [José Adércio Leite], Almeida, L. M. G. [Larissa de Moura Guerra], & Souto, L. M. [Luana Mathias]. Crise Sanitária e Estado de Exceção: uma Reflexão Quanto aos Subprodutos Insurgentes da Pandemia do Novo Coronavírus. Revista Direito Público, 17(96): 171-197. https://doi.org/10.11117/rdp.v17i96.4397. OPEN ACCESS – Link to full text.
Souto, L. M. [Luana Mathias], Sampaio, J. A. L. [José Adércio Leite]. (2021). Mulher e voz: os desafios à efetividade dos direitos políticos femininos. Sequência, 42(88). https://doi.org/10.5007/2177-7055.2021.e78052. OPEN ACCESS – Link to full text.
Souto, L. M. [Luana Mathias]. (2020). Life-narratives and human rights: reflection about women’s rights and state of exception. Anamorphosis – Revista Internacional de Direito e Literatura, 6(1): 151-175. OPEN ACCESS – Link to full text
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