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 |
Socio-legal studies, gender and law, legal mobilisation, human rights, reparations, comparative public law, law and nationalism
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.
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- Breaking the Legal Glass Ceiling in ‘Gender Equal’ Finland (2026) The Neutral Law? Essays in Honour of Johanna Niemi Alaattinoğlu, Daniela
- Introduction (2026) The Neutral Law? Essays in Honour of Johanna Niemi Alaattinoğlu, Daniela; Nousiainen, Kevät; Verdú Sanmartin, Amalia
- The Neutral Law? Essays in Honour of Johanna Niemi (2026) Alaattinoğlu, Daniela; Nousiainen, Kevät; Verdú Sanmartin, Amalia
- Transitional Justice in Settler States : Challenges, Contradictions and Possibilities (2026)
- Insights: Professional Legal Blog of the Faculty of Law, University of Turku
- A Castle in the Sky? The Icelandic Ban on Non-Therapeutic, Non-Consensual Interventions on Intersex Children in Context (2025)
- European Human Rights Law Review
- Editorial (2025)
- Retfaerd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift
- Perustuslakivaliokunnan näkemys paperittomina elävien ihmisten terveydenhuollosta menee vaarallisesti metsään (2025)
- Amnesty International -blogi
- Seksuaalirikoksissa tulee tunnistaa uhrin haavoittuva asema (2025)
- Helsingin Sanomat
- 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
- The Nils Klim Prize and Holberg Week : Inspiration, Wonder and Lasting Memories (2025)
- Insights: Professional Legal Blog of the Faculty of Law, University of Turku
- Vapaaehtoisuuden puutetta tulee arvioida seksuaalirikoksissa kokonaisvaltaisesti (2025) Alaattinoğlu, Daniela; Kainulainen, Heini; Niemi, Johanna
- Editorial (2024)
- Retfaerd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift
- Hur kan vi försonas med förtryck i det förflutna? (2024)
- Ikaros - tidskrift om människan och vetenskapen
- Líkamleg friðhelgi intersex fólks: Blindur blettur í mannréttindabaráttu á Norðurlöndum og íslenska undantekningin (2024) Fléttur VII: Hinsegin Ísland í alþjóðlegu samhengi Alaattinoğlu, Daniela
- #metoo: En katalysator för förändringen av sexualbrottslagstiftningen i Finland (2024)
- Laboratorium för folk och kultur
- The right-wing shock doctrine at the Finnish-Russian border (2024)
- Global Voices
- Violencia reproductiva en los países nórdicos: ¿la hora de la justicia? (2024) Rubio Ruth, Alaattinoğlu Daniela
- Editorial (2023)
- Retfaerd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift
- Forced Abortion and Forced Sterilisation (2023) Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: A Commentary on the Istanbul Convention Alaattinoğlu Daniela
- Grievance Formation, Rights and Remedies: Involuntary Sterilisation and Castration in the Nordics, 1930s–2020s (2023) Alaattinoğlu Daniela
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