Graduate Student I am a Lecturer, Associated Faculty, in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Miami. I am a lawyer and social scientist with extensive experience in empirical legal research, and my work spans the sociology of law, punishment, and health, examining how legal institutions affect people’s health and well-being. I hold a Ph.D. in Law and an LL.M. from Yale Law School. I also hold a B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Georgia, where I am a Ph.D. candidate (ABD, expected Spring 2027).Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Law at Insper, São Paulo, from 2019 to 2022. In 2024–25, I was a Global Health and Rights Project Affiliated Researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law, Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. I have also been a Senior Research Fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy and a Student Fellow with the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale Law School. Education Education: Ph.D. candidate in Sociology (ABD), University of Georgia. Master of Laws (LLM), Yale Law School, 2019. Ph.D. in Public Law, University of São Paulo, 2018. Bachelor in Social Sciences, University of São Paulo. Bachelor in Law, University of São Paulo. Other Affiliations: Enter the name of department or institution you are affiliated with Research Research Areas: Crime, Law, and Deviance Medical Sociology Research Interests: Sociology of law, sociology of health, criminology, sociology of punishment, and prison studies. Selected Publications Selected Publications: Selected Published Papers SHANNON, S.K.S.; PIRES DE VASCONCELOS, N.; FRANCIS, O.; MOORE, L.B. (2026). Following the Money? Transparency in Criminal Legal System Fees Revenues and Expenditures. Criminal Justice Review, 2026, available here (English). ANGOTTI, B.; VASCONCELOS, N.P.D.; AMARAL, M.; PAIVA, L.G.M.D. (2026). O uso do reconhecimento fotográfico na justiça criminal de São Paulo em casos de roubo e furto. Revista Direito GV, 22, e2618, 2026, available here (Portuguese). PIRES DE VASCONCELOS, N.; MACHADO, M.R.; ZAMBOM, M.M.; GUIMARÃES PASSOS, A.B.; KLINK DE MELO, A.C.; DOS SANTOS, A.B.S.; PRANDO, C.; FERREIRA, C.C.; MALLART, F.; NUNES, L.F.C.; BISPO, F.C.; GODOI, R.; PEREIRA, S.A.; BALBUGLIO, V. (2026). Prison Lethality: Epistemic Harm and Death Connected to Brazilian Carceral Spaces. Social Sciences, 15(4), 272, 2026, available here (English). POIRIER, M.J.; NANYANGWE-MOYO, T.; DE VASCONCELOS, N.P.; et al. (2025). Treatment-specific interrupted time series analyses of judicial deference to health technology assessment in Brazil. BMC Health Services Research, 25(950), 2025, available here (English). WANG, D. W. L; VASCONCELOS, N.P.; FAJRELDINES, E., et al. (2025), Judicial claims for access to treatment in the private health insurance sector in Brazil, Health Economics, Policy and Law, 1-19 available here (English) WANG, D.W.L, FAJRELDINES, E., OLIVEIRA, B. C., SOUZA, F. M., SOUZA, J. L., VASCONCELOS, N.P., MALIK, A. M., ARANTES, L., MIZIARA, N. M., A, O. (2024) Judiciário aproxima o que a legislação separa: a judicialização da saúde no setor público e na saúde suplementar [Courts approximate what legislation separates: the judicialization of healthcare in the public sector and in the private health sector]. Brazilian Journal of Health Law, 24(1), e0011, available here (Portuguese). VASCONCELOS, N.P. (2021) Between justice and public management: interinstitutional collaboration in health litigation. Brazilian Journal of Public Administration, 55(4): 923–949, July–Aug., available here (English and Portuguese). WANG, DANIEL WEI L.; VASCONCELOS, N.P.; POIRIER, M.; et al. (2020) Health technology assessment and judicial deference to priority-setting decisions in health care: evidence from Brazil. Social Science & Medicine, v. 265, Nov. 2020, available here (English). VASCONCELOS, N.P.; MACHADO, M.R.; WANG, D.W.L. (2020) Covid-19 in prisons: a study of habeas corpus decisions by the São Paulo Court of Justice. Brazilian Journal of Public Administration, 54(5), Sept.–Oct. 2020, available here (English and Portuguese). Selected Book Chapters VASCONCELOS, N.P. (2026, forthcoming) Right to food. In: GOMES, J. C. A., BENVINDO, J. Z., MEYER, E. P. N. (orgs). Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Constitution, Oxford University Press (English) MACHADO, M.M., VASCONCELOS, N.P. (2025) COVID-19 in Brazilian prisons: a missed critical juncture for the criminal legal system. In: BURBANO-HERRERA, Clara; HAECKO, Yves (eds.). Human Rights in Latin-American Prisons: Towards A More Comprehensive Understanding, Brill, available here (English) VASCONCELOS, N.P. (2023). Business as Usual: Inequality and Health Litigation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil. In Beyond the Virus (pp. 137-163). Bristol University Press, available here (English). Book Reviews VASCONCELOS, N.P. (2021) Book Review: Octavio L. M. Ferraz, Health as a Human Right: The Politics and Judicialisation of Health in Brazil. Modern Law Review, available here (English). VASCONCELOS, N.P. (2020) Book Review: Virgilio Afonso da Silva, The Constitution of Brazil, A Contextual Analysis. Public Law, v. 3, 605–608 (English). Awards, Honors, and Recognition Of Note: Graduate School Doctoral Fellows Award recipient, University of Georgia. Global Health and Rights Project Affiliated Researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law, Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School (2024-2025). Visiting Professor at St. Gallen University (2020). Visiting Scholar at University of Georgia Law School (2020). Senior Research Fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School (2020-2022). Student Fellow at the Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale Law School (2016-17). Fox International Fellow, at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University (2016-17).
