Julen Etxabe works as a university researcher at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. His research focuses on judicial dialogues from a comparative perspective and has taught courses on the jurisprudence of human rights, democracy, and normative conflict.

Etxabe holds LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from the University of Michigan Law School, and a LL.M. degree from the European Academy of Legal Theory in Brussels.

His book The Experience of Tragic Judgment was published in 2013 by Routledge and has co-edited a volume entitled Living in a Law Transformed: Encounters with the Works of James Boyd White (Maize Press, 2014). Currenty, Etxabe is editing a volume on the Cultural History of Law in Antiquity as part of a series with Bloomsbury.  

He is also editor of No-Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice.