Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), conducting research on the concepts of race and racial discrimination within the institutional activities of the Inter-American Human Rights System. I hold a Master's degree in Political Science from UNICAMP, where my research focused on the political outcomes of cases of contemporary slavery in Brazilian labor district courts. Currently, I am a visiting Ph.D. student at SCRIPTS and actively involved in the Race and Multilateralism (RAM) research project.

• Human Rights Theory and Critical Approaches to Human Rights
• Critical Legal Studies 
• Critical Race Theories and Perspectives
• Decolonial Approaches to IR
• Political Theory and History of Ideas

• Adão, Felipe da Silva Pinto; Beltramelli Neto, Silvio. BEYOND COMING AND GOING: THE BRAZILIAN LEGAL DEFINITION OF SLAVE LABOR VIS-À-VIS THE COMPARATIVE LAW. Revista da Faculdade de Direito UFPR, Curitiba, PR, Brasil, v. 62, n. 1, jan./abr. 2017, p. 113 – 136. ISSN 2236-7284. Disponível em: <https://core.ac.uk/download/328058654.pdf>. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v62i1.47832.

• Adão, Felipe da Silva. Labor analogous to slavery in the Labor Courts : the actions of the Regional Labour Court of the 2nd Region in slave labor cases between 2003 and 2014. Master Thesis, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2020. Available at: https://core.ac.uk/works/86675499. (master thesis). 
• Adão, Felipe da Silva. Introduction to the Costas Douzinas’ thought: theoretical elements for a critical study of human rights in the 21th century. Debates Interdisciplinaressobre Direito e Direitos Humanos, pp. 114-123. Book chapter: Part of ISBN: 978-65-88816-29-5. Available at: https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/omp/index.php/ebooks/catalog/view/152/186/655.