Julen Etxabe

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Law and humanities
Legal Theory and Jurisprudence
Human Rights
Political Theory
Law and literature
Cultural Studies

Relevant Thesis-Based Degree Programs

Affiliations to Research Centres, Institutes & Clusters

Research Options

I am available and interested in collaborations (e.g. clusters, grants).
I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
 
 

Research Methodology

Cultural approaches to law
Literary and rhetorical analyses of law
hermeneutics
Jurisprudence
critical theory

Recruitment

Master's students
Doctoral students
Postdoctoral Fellows
Any time / year round
  • Law and Humanities
  • Law and Literature
  • Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
  • Critical Theory
  • Poilitical Theory
  • Cultural Studies and Legal History
  • International Human Rights

You will be intellectually curious and open, have an interdisciplinary background or interest, and a passion for the study of law as a human endeavor and not just a trade.

Theoretically-minded and open to humanistic approaches to law.

I am open to hosting Visiting International Research Students (non-degree, up to 12 months).
I am interested in supervising students to conduct interdisciplinary research.

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Publications

  • Law as Politics (2020)
    Law, culture and the humanities,
  • Cultural History of Law in Antiquity (2019)
    The Cultural Histories Series,
  • Introduction (2019)
    Cultural History of Law in Antiquity,
  • Arendt, Democracy, and Judgment (2018)
    Contemporary Political Theory,
  • Introduction: Rancière and the possibility of law (2017)
    Ranciere and Law, , 1-13
  • Jacques Rancière and the Dramaturgy of Law (2017)
    Rancière and Law,
  • Rancière and Law (2017)
  • Book Review: (2015)
    No Foundations : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice,
  • Constitución Retórica, Constitución (im)posible (2014)
    Política común,
  • Editorial (2014)
    No Foundations : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice,
  • It's Not All About Pretty: Human Rights Adjudication in a Life and Death Situation (2014)
    Living in a Law Transformed,
  • Living in a Law Transformed: Encounters with the Works of James Boyd White (2014)
  • Editorial: Judging Democracy, Democratic Judgment (2013)
    No Foundations : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice,
  • Judging Democracy, Democratic Judgment: special issue NoFo 10 (2013) (2013)
    No Foundations : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice,
  • The experience of tragic judgment (2013)
    The Experience of Tragic Judgment, , 1-252
  • Editorial: Law's Justice: A Law and Humanties Perspective (2012)
    No Foundations : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice,
  • Law's Justice: A Law and Humanities Perspective. Relaunch Special Issue. No Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice, number 9 (2012) (2012)
    No Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice ,
  • Tragic Incommensurability and Legal Judgment (2011)
    Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence,
  • What do the Poets Know about Democracy? (2011)
    Law and Method,
  • The Legal Universe After Robert Cover (2010)
    Law and Humanities,
  • Antigone's Nomos (2009)
    Animus,
  • A Review of 'Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force' by James Boyd White (2008)
    Law and Humanities,
  • Organización de Derecho Local (2001)
    Iustel,
 

Membership Status

Member of G+PS
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Program Affiliations

Law
 

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