Daniela Alaattinoglu
Doctor of Laws (EUI), Docent of Socio-legal Studies (UTU), 2025 Nils Klim Laureate
daniela.alaattinoglu@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7151-9526 |
Areas of expertise
Socio-legal studies, gender and law, legal mobilisation, human rights, reparations, comparative public law, criminal law
Socio-legal studies, gender and law, legal mobilisation, human rights, reparations, comparative public law, criminal law
Biography
In my research and teaching, I am generally interested in how societies and laws evolve in tandem, how groups mobilise to change their position, and how law intersectionally includes and excludes individuals and groups.
My research has been published in discipline-leading international journals, including Modern Law Review, Feminist Legal Studies, Human Rights Law Review and International Journal of Constitutional Law. Among my most prominent publications are my single-authored monograph Grievance Formation, Rights and Remedies: Involuntary Sterilisation and Castration in the Nordics, 1930s–2020s (Cambridge University Press 2023) and the co-edited (together with Dr Adrian Howe) volume Contesting Femicide: Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited (Routledge 2019).
I am the Principal Investigator of the project From the Margin to the Centre: Rights Development, Transitional Justice and Indigeneity in the Nordics (MARCEN), funded by the European Research Council (Starting Grant, 2025–2029). In the past, my research has been recognised with multiple research grants, including the Icelandic Research Fund (2020–2023), the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (2020–2022) and the Research Council of Finland (2014–2019). I have also held multiple international visiting fellowships, for example at the University of Melbourne (2018) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (2019).
I am (together with Dr Laura Tammenlehto) the co-editor of Retfærd, the Nordic Journal of Law and Justice. I am also the co-founder (together with Dr Miriam Tedeschi) of the research environment Law, Space and Justice at the Turku Law Faculty.
I am particularly interested in supervising doctoral researchers and postgraduate students from underrepresented groups in academia.
My main working languages are English, Finnish, Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian) and Turkish.
Publications 
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- Editorial (2025)
- Retfaerd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - The Moment of Mobilization: The Legislative Consequences of Trans Rights Mobilization in Sweden, Norway, and Finland (2025)
- Nordic Journal of Human Rights / Nordisk Tidsskrift for Menneskerettigheter
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Editorial (2024)
- Retfaerd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Hur kan vi försonas med förtryck i det förflutna? (2024)
- Ikaros - tidskrift om människan och vetenskapen
(E1 Popularised article) - Líkamleg friðhelgi intersex fólks: Blindur blettur í mannréttindabaráttu á Norðurlöndum og íslenska undantekningin (2024) Fléttur VII: Hinsegin Ísland í alþjóðlegu samhengi Alaattinoğlu, Daniela
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - #metoo: En katalysator för förändringen av sexualbrottslagstiftningen i Finland (2024)
- Laboratorium för folk och kultur
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - The right-wing shock doctrine at the Finnish-Russian border (2024)
- Global Voices
(E1 Popularised article) - Violencia reproductiva en los países nórdicos: ¿la hora de la justicia? (2024) Rubio Ruth, Alaattinoğlu Daniela
(Other publication) - Editorial (2023)
- Retfaerd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Forced Abortion and Forced Sterilisation (2023) Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: A Commentary on the Istanbul Convention Alaattinoğlu Daniela
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Grievance Formation, Rights and Remedies: Involuntary Sterilisation and Castration in the Nordics, 1930s–2020s (2023) Alaattinoğlu Daniela
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) Vol. 21 issue 2, 2023: Symposium: Trans Identity and the Law (2023)
- International Journal of Constitutional Law
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Intersex interventions as human rights violations: The European Court of Human Rights sets out guiding principles in M v France (2023)
- Modern Law Review
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Introduction: Trans identities and the law (2023)
- International Journal of Constitutional Law
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Retfaerd: nordisk juridisk tidsskrift årg. 46, nr 1/175 (2023): Migration, Belonging and the Nordic States (2023)
- Retfaerd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Trans parents and the gendered law: Critical reflections on the Swedish regulation (2023)
- International Journal of Constitutional Law
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Livet för tusentals flyktingar görs svårare i Finland (2022)
- Hufvudstadsbladet
(Other publication) - Rethinking Explicit Consent and Intimate Data: The Case of Menstruapps (2022)
- Feminist Legal Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sokea rikosoikeus ja feministinen kritiikki (2022) Rikoksen ja rangaistuksen filosofia Alaattinoğlu Daniela, Niemi Johanna
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Våldtäktsmyter existerar också inom juristkåren (2022)
- Hufvudstadsbladet
(Other publication)
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