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Professor Gauthier De Beco

Professor

Gauthier joined Leeds Law School as Professor of Law in January 2024. He previously taught at the KU Leuven, University College London, the University of Leeds and the University of Huddersfield, where he has been SGL - Research and Enterprise.

Gauthier's area of expertise lies in the topic of disability and human rights. He has been working with international organisations, NGOs and governments for more than 20 years. He has acted as an expert to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as many NGOs. He worked as a legal advisor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and as a country representative in the Human Rights Council (HRC). He is also a member of the Economic and Social Rights Academic Network UK and Ireland (ESRAN-UKI) and has been a member of the Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED) as well as of the Task Team of the UN Flagship Report on Disability. He has been involved in a number of research projects funded, amongst others, by the Nuffield Foundation and the European Commission.

Gauthier's research has appeared in the Human Rights Quarterly, the Modern Law Review, the Human Rights Law Journal, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and the International Journal of Law in Context. In addition to four edited volumes, he published three research monographs, including Disability in International Human Rights Law with Oxford University Press. He is on the board of several peer-reviewed legal journals and regularly invited to provide presentations at international conferences.

Gauthier has been teaching at both undergraduate and post-graduate level and supervised a number of PhD students (seven of whom towards completion).

Research Interests

Gauthier's research more specifically focusses on the right to inclusive education. He has been conducting various projects on the theme, including a critical analysis of what the 'inclusive' component of this right in fact stands and how to counter the narrow approach to inclusion put forward through usual CRPD interpretations. He is also working on a special issue on the possibilities and limits of the right to inclusive education sparking controversies that hinder a proper understanding of its impact on education systems.

Gauthier previously researched the intersectionality of disability with other characteristics as well as the significance of the CRPD for the entire field of international human rights law (which led to his research monograph published by Oxford University Press). He is currently working on the topic of inclusive legal education through improving the accessibility of the legal curriculum and collaborating with several NGOs and disabled people's organisations with regard to the development of strategies to uphold economic and social rights for disabled people in times of armed conflict.