Alaattinoğlu is the first Finnish legal scholar and the first scholar from the University of Turku to receive the award.
In this podcast, Communications Planner Rosa Lampela talks with Assistant Professor of Law Daniela Alaattinoğlu, the 2025 Nils Klim Laurete for excellent research, about her work as a legal scholar. Alaattinoğlu receives the Nils Klim award for her research into how laws and societies evolve together, how groups mobilise for change, and how law intersectionally includes and excludes individuals and groups.
Alaattinoğlu has conducted research on various themes regarding bodily autonomy, explicit consent and data protection in period-tracking apps. In 2025 she received a highly competitive 1.5 M€ research funding from the European Research Council for her project on the Nordic Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Commissions.
Alaattinoğlu’s key publications include the monograph Grievance Formation, Rights and Remedies: Involuntary Sterilisation and Castration in the Nordics, 1930s–2020s (2023) and the co-edited volume Contesting Femicide: Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited (2019, with Dr Adrian Howe). Alaattinoğlu has also authored a number of high-quality journal articles and book chapters, and she is a co-editor of Retfærd: Nordic Journal of Law and Justice.
Alaattinoğlu is the first Finnish legal scholar and the first scholar from the University of Turku to receive the award. The Nils Klim award, funded by the Norwegian government, is worth 43 000 euros and conferred by the University of Bergen on June 5th.
