Matteo Bassetti

Biography

Matteo (He/They) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Essex, whose research is funded by the South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS) Doctoral Training Partnership. His research focuses on the rights of trans people, and the underestimation of harm inflicted by States through institutional pathologisation frameworks. In his research, Matteo focuses on the harm resulting from medical requirements imposed by States for the purposes of Legal Gender Recognition, and aims to reframe these as violating the right to be free from Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Torture. In their research, Matteo draws on queer and feminist legal methodologies to address the underestimation of harm by international legal institutions. PUBLICATIONS: Matteo Bassetti (2024) 'The precarity of trans survival: suicidality and the right to life' in: Queer encounters with International Law: Lives, Communities, Subjectivities. Editors: Tamsin Philippa Paige, Laerwen O'Hara. Routledge. Matteo Bassetti (2020) 'Human rights bodies' adjudication of trans people's rights: shifting the narrative from the right to private life to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment' European Journal of Legal Studies.

Qualifications

• LLM International Human Rights Law University of Essex (2019)

• BA International Justice Leiden University College (2017)

Thesis