Juho
Aalto
Areas of expertise
Biography
Juho Aalto is a university teacher and doctoral researcher at the University of Turku Law Faculty. He is member of the Finnish Editorial Borad of Retfærd - Nordic Journal of Law and Justice and currently a member of the Finnish Human Rights Delegation (Ihmisoikeusvaltuuskunta) for the term 2024-2028.
Aalto was awarded the 2025 Faculty of Law Article of the Year for his work BinaryTech in motion: The sexgender in the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence, published in Leiden Journal of International Law.
Teaching
I am currently responsible for teaching the courses: Postmodern and Posthuman Challenges to Law, Law and Art, Gender and Human Rights and Oikeus ja etiikka – Law and Ethics.
Research
My research focus is on legal theory, specifically the intersections of sex, gender, sexuality, materiality and law. I explore how the sexgender binary impacts legal subject formation, using new materialist, posthumanist, and Nordic feminist perspectives law. I have operationalised binary dichotomies to analyse how legal subject formation can be considered material-discursive through an ontoepistemological method of legal analysis called BinaryTech he has developed.