I am a doctoral researcher in law at the University of Turku. My research and teaching focuses on issues of sexgender and Nordic Feminist Perspectives on law, binary thinking in terms of sexgender in the context of jurisprudence and what kind of insights new materialisms and posthumanism might bring to feminist and queer legal theories.

My areas of expertise are Human Rights and the ECtHR, Legal Theory, Feminisms, New Materialisms, Agential Realism, Finnish procedural law, and Nordic Feminist Perspectives on Law. I am currently focusing on binary thinking in the context of sexgender and its implications in human rights adjudication at the ECtHR

Currently the focus of my doctoral dissertation lies in the centrality of sex/gender binary in relation to law and how societies and law construct different sexes/genders and sexual orientations - both discursively and materially. Furthermore, law is thought to be abstract according to paradigmatic legal thinking. This abstraction of law can be questioned by investigating whether law might have material effects and itself be materializing in reality. The dissertation approaches this issue through binaries such as sex/gender and heterosexual/homosexual and how the binary thinking, (that feminist scholars would argue is also a hierarchy, where masculine>feminine, and queer theorists would supplement  with another: heterosexuality>homosexuality) in addition to its discursive power to regulate sexed/gendered behaviour, could also manifest itself in and through bodies themselves.