Dr Felix E Torres

Dr Felix E Torres

Birmingham Law School
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Address
Birmingham Law School
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Félix joined Birmingham Law School in 2021, having completed his PhD studies at the University of Nottingham the same year. His research interests revolve around international law, human rights and transitional justice, focusing on economic and social rights, state responsibility and reparations in post-conflict societies. Felix’s work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals in the UK, Europe, and South America, including the European Journal of International Law, Human Rights Law Review, Nordic Journal of International Law, and Revista de Estudios Sociales. He continues to write book contributions (2019, 2022) regarding the events that are taking place in Colombia, where he comes from, regarding the implementation of the peace agreement.  

Qualifications

  • PhD in Law (University of Nottingham)
  • MRes in Law (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
  • MA in Philosophy (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
  • BA in Philosophy (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
  • LLB (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) 

Biography

During his doctoral studies, Felix participated in different international projects on human rights and related issues. He was a research assistant for the Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation project, which aims to promote synergies between research and practice in the area of child rights strategic litigation. Felix also did聽pro bono聽work for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, contributing to the development of the Global Disaster Risk Management Law Index. As a research associate of the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab, he worked on the 2019聽'Measurement, Action, Freedom' Report聽on the UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.7., by the Minderoo Foundation's Walk Free initiative.

Before joining the University of Nottingham, F茅lix worked for six years as a qualified lawyer at the Constitutional Court of Colombia. He was responsible for monitoring the following topics related to the protection of the rights of internally displaced persons by violence: humanitarian aid, housing, security measures, protection and restitution of land, and income generation programs. He coordinated and drafted key judgments on these subjects.

Prior to serving at the Court, he worked in the capacity of consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - Opci贸n Legal in Bogot谩, carrying out research on constitutional jurisprudence and international protection standards regarding internally displaced persons.

Teaching

  • Legal Skills and Methods 
  • Legal Communication and Writing
  • Public Law 
  • Legal Theory

Postgraduate supervision

Economic and Social Rights, Reparations, Transitional Justice, Distributive Justice, Post-conflict settings


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Research

Felix's current research focuses on the establishment of priorities regarding the guarantee of economic and social rights in post-conflict situations, including the question of the role that reparations should play in these settings. His research addresses the jurisprudence of European, Inter-American and African human rights bodies, as well as the work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Felix complements his legal research with moral thinking and contemporary theories of distributive justice, which allowed him to develop a priority setting framework for these contexts.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Torres, FE 2017, . Colecci贸n Prometeo, 1st edn, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia .

Article

Torres , FE 2023, '', Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 306-334.

Torres, FE 2022, '', Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 12-34.

Torres, FE 2021, '', Human Rights Law Review, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 935-961.

Torres, FE 2021, '', European Journal of International Law, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 807-834.

Torres, FE 2021, '', Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 190-227.

Torres, FE 2019, '', Revista de Estudios Sociales , vol. 2019, no. 69, pp. 28-40.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Torres , FE 2023, . in J Acosta-Lopez & MDR Acosta Lopez (eds), Justicia transicional en Colombia: Una mirada retrospectiva. Editorial Planeta, pp. 277-351.

Torres, FE 2019, . in FE Torres Penagos, DN Sharp , L Arbour & L Waldorf (eds), Justicia Transicional y Postconflicto . Nuevo Pensamiento Jur铆dico, Universidad de los Andes/Siglo del Hombre Editores, Bogota, Colombia, pp. 13-96.

Chapter

Torres, FE 2015, . in IC Jaramillo (ed.), Derecho y poder: Aportes al canon transnacional. Universidad de los Andes, pp. 231-255.

Book/Film/Article review

Torres, FE 2024, '', Jurisprudence.

Other contribution

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