Daniela Alaattinoglu
Doctor of Laws (EUI) | Docent of Socio-legal Studies (UTU) | 2025 Nils Klim Laureate | Director of the Doctoral Programme in Law
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, law and nationalism
Socio-legal studies, gender and law, legal mobilisation, human rights, reparations, comparative public law, law and nationalism
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 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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- Rape in Finnish criminal law and process - A discussion on, and beyond, consent (2020)
- Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Rape in the Nordic Countries: Continuity and Change. Edited by Marie Bruvik Heinskou, May-Len Skilbrei and Kari Stefansen, Routledge (Open Access), 2020, 246 pp., £ 115 (hardback), ISBN: 9781138606517 (2020)
- Nordic journal on law and society
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Rikoslakia muutettava, mutta se ei yksin riitä takaamaan seksuaalirikosten uhrien oikeuksien toteutumista (2020)
- ASLA-blogi/blog(utu.fi)
(E1 Popularised article) - Tiede ja koulutus on säilytettävä ilmaisina ja avoimina kaikille – lukukausimaksuista on ikäviä esimerkkejä maailmalla (2020)
- Turun Sanomat
(Other publication) - Vem skall finansiera rätten till utbildning: studenten eller samhället? (2020)
- Hufvudstadsbladet
(Other publication) - Contesting Femicide – Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited (2019) Adrian Howe, Daniela Alaattinoğlu
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Epilogue (2019) Contesting Femicide – Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited Adrian Howe & Daniela Alaattinoğlu
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Fearless Speech: Seeking Freedom Beyond the (Liberal) Fishbowl (2019)
- Melbourne Journal of International Law
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Fighting Femicide in Turkey – Feminist Legal Challenges (2019) Contesting Femicide – Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited Daniela Alaattinoğlu & Cemre Baytok
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Introduction (2019) Contesting Femicide – Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited Adrian Howe & Daniela Alaattinoğlu
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)
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