Joxerramon Bengoetxea (PhD, Edinburgh) is Professor of Jurisprudence and Sociology of Law at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).  Courses taught include “Philosophy and Sociology of Law”, European Law (free movements and cohesion policy) and “Comparing Legal Cultures” at the International Master in Sociology of Law at the Oñati Institute, which he coordinates together with the Doctorate in Sociology of Law. He is a member of the Academic Board of the “Renato Treves” International Phd in Law and Society.  While at Stanford, Professor Bengoetxea will be teaching the course "Cultural, Legal and Constitutional Pluralism in Europe" at the School of Law. This course raises interesting political, legal, socio-legal, comparative and jurisprudential questions following from phenomena like Muslim law, national minorities, the Roma, and other sources of diversity in Europe, and their challenges to supranational outlooks adopted at the two major European Courts.

Professor Bengoetxea’s publications include The Legal Reasoning of the European Court of Justice (Oxford University Press, 1993), Zuzenbideaz. Teoria kritiko trinkoa (On Law. A Compact Critical Theory, 1993) 500 page textbook on Jurisprudence (Sociology of Law, Comparative Law, Legal Theory and Political Philosophy) in the Basque language (the first original work on law produced in Basque), and La Europa Peter Pan. El constitucionalismo europeo en la encrucijada (2005) IVAP.  In addition he has edited several books and published over 140 articles or book chapters in law reviews, journals, collective editions and readers dealing with issues of legal reasoning and legal theory, EC law and institutions, regionalism in the EC, comparative law, political philosophy (theory of nationalism and of European integration).

Professor Bengoetxea's areas of interest include Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory, Comparing Legal Cultures, cultural and legal pluralism, the European Court of Justice, institutional-constitutional EU law: the legal theory, general principles, human rights, citizenship and multilingualism and European integration and the theory of State and Nation.