Julieta A.
Rabanos holds a law degree (2012) from the University of Buenos Aires, a
Master's degree in Global Rule of Law & Constitutional Democracy and
a PhD in Law from the University of Genoa (2020). She was subsequently a
postdoctoral researcher in philosophy of law at the University of Genoa
(2021-2023) and the University of Belgrade (2023-2025).
She is
currently a Ramón y Cajal researcher in the area of law at the Cátedra de Cultura
Jurídica,
University of Girona. She is also an affiliated researcher with, among others,
the Center for Legal
Fundamentals,
Lisbon Legal Theory, Tarello Institute for Legal Philosophy, and a collaborating researcher
with BIAP. She is a member of the Executive Committee of
the International Association
for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy and an ordinary member of the AAFD. She has conducted research stays
at the universities of Lisbon, Oxford, Surrey, and Uppsala, and at the Max
Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Frankfurt).
She has
been an undergraduate professor at the universities of Girona (2025-present),
Alberto Hurtado (2021-2023) and Diego Portales (2021), and a teaching assistant
at the universities of Genoa (2015-2023) and Buenos Aires (2007-2015). She is a
postgraduate professor in the Master in Global Rule of Law &
Constitutional Democracy (Genoa-Girona), Master in Law (UEES), and
postgraduate courses in Argumentation and Philosophy of Law and Constitutional
Law (USFQ), among others. In addition, she has participated as a guest lecturer
at the universities of Surrey, Milan, and Lisbon, among others. She has taught
in Spanish, English, and Italian. She has obtained national scientific
accreditation (abilitazione) to serve as an associate professor in
Philosophy of Law (2025-2037), granted by the Italian Ministry of University
and Research (MUR).
Her
research focuses on three main interrelated areas: authority and law; legal
systems and norms; and coercion and the rule of law. She is currently
developing a line of research that brings together and extends the above areas
within the framework of the project ‘Contemporary Challenges to Authority’. She
has participated in various research projects, including the EU Jean Monnet
Module ‘VIRoL – Violations of the Rule of Law: Classification, Proof and
Remedies’ (ID 101048256) and the EU Horizon Twinning Project ‘ALF - Advancing
cooperation on the Foundations of Law’ (ID 101079177); and is director of the
sub-project ‘PRALF – Practically Oriented Legal Fundamentals’.
She is the
author of the book Modelos contemporáneos de autoridad (Contemporary Models of
Authority) (Marcial Pons, 2025 – forthcoming), and co-editor of the books Bernard
Williams on Law and Jurisprudence (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025 – forthcoming) and
Eugenio Bulygin en la teoría del derecho contemporánea (Eugenio Bulygin in
Contemporary Legal Theory) (Marcial Pons, 2022). She has also published several
articles in different languages on philosophy and legal theory, theory of
authority, coercion, legal methodology and legal realism in specialist journals
such as Analisi e diritto, Eumonía, Law and Philosophy, Materiali per una
storia della cultura giuridica, Rivista di filosofía del derecho, Revista
Latinoamericana de Filosofía Política, Revista Telemática de filosofía del
derecho and Revus, as well as contributions to books published by Edward Elgar,
Hart Publishing, Marcial Pons and Springer. She is currently editor-in-chief of
Eudaimonia, a member of the editorial board of
Analisi
e diritto and
the scientific committee of Problema.
She has
co-supervised three master's theses and is currently (co-)directing three
others in the field of philosophy of law, both in their theoretical development
and in their application to practical problems. She has been co-coordinator of
various postgraduate programmes, including several specialisations and a
master's degree, co-organiser of various international conferences, and
translator of numerous articles and chapters from Italian and English into
Spanish. She has served as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and as
an expert evaluator for FONDECYT (Chile) and EVALUA (Spain) projects. Finally,
she is co-founder of Heavily Accented Philosophy of Law podcast (HAPL), editor-in-chief of the Foundations of Law blog (FOL), and contributing editor of the Jurisprudence section of the Jotwell
blog.