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Juho
Aalto

Doctoral Researcher, Laws
University Teacher, Laws

Contact

Caloniankuja 3
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

Human Rights
Legal Theory
Critical Legal Studies
Feminist Legal Studies
Nordic feminist perspectives on law
New Materialism
Posthumanism

Biography

Juho Aalto a university teacher and doctoral researcher at the University of Turku Law Faculty.

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. His research explores 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.


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