Juho Aalto is a university teacher and doctoral researcher at the University of Turku Law Faculty. He is member of the Finnish Editorial Borad of Retfærd - Nordic Journal of Law and Justice and  currently a member of the Finnish Human Rights Delegation (Ihmisoikeusvaltuuskunta) for the term 2024-2028.

Aalto was awarded the 2025 Faculty of Law Article of the Year for his work BinaryTech in motion: The sexgender in the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence, published in Leiden Journal of International Law.

My research focus is on legal theory, specifically the intersections of sex, gender, sexuality, materiality and law. I explore how the sexgender binary impacts legal subject formation, using new materialist, posthumanist, and Nordic feminist perspectives law. I have operationalised binary dichotomies to analyse how legal subject formation can be considered material-discursive through an ontoepistemological method of legal analysis called BinaryTech he has developed.

I am currently responsible for teaching the courses: Postmodern and Posthuman Challenges to Law, Law and Art, Gender and Human Rights and Oikeus ja etiikka – Law and Ethics.