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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- Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks (2019)
- Nordic Journal of Human Rights / Nordisk Tidsskrift for Menneskerettigheter
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Redress for Involuntarily Sterilised Trans People in Sweden against Evolving Human Rights Standards: A Critical Appraisal (2019)
- Human Rights Law Review
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Path of the Law: The Establishment, Abolition and Remedy of Involuntary Sterilisation and Castration in Sweden, Norway and Finland (2019) Daniela Alaattinoğlu
(G4 Monograph dissertation) - Choice and Transcription of Names (2017) Culture and Human Rights: The Wroclaw Commentaries Daniela Alaattinoğlu
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Svar på förslag till lag om ersättning till personer som har fått ändrad könstillhörighet fastställd i vissa fall [Answer to Proposal for Act on Compensation to People Who Have Obtained Legal Gender Recognition under Certain Circumstances] (2017) Daniela Alaattinoğlu
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Hedersvåld? Rättsliga konstruktioner av den andra i Finland och Turkiet [Honour-related Violence? Legal Constructions of the Other in Finland and Turkey] (2016)
- Tidskrift Utgiven Av Juridiska Föreningen i Finland
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Male Violence, Female Behaviour, the Self and the Other (2015) Gender and “the Law”: Limits, Contestations and Beyond Daniela Alaattinoğlu
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Torture and Ill-treatment Monitoring Report 2013 (2014) Daniela Åkers, TOHAV
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Ihmiskaupan uhrien auttamista koskeva eurooppalainen lainsäädäntövertailu [A European Comparison of Legislation Concerning Assistance to Victims of Trafficking] (2013) Jarna Petman, Ukri Soirila, Eliska Pirkova, Daniela Åkers
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Killed by Hatred or Killed by Love? An intersectional challenge to legal constructions of gendered violence in Finland and Turkey (2013) Daniela Åkers
(G2 Master’s thesis, polytechnic Master’s thesis)
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