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Xabier Etxebarria
Xabier Etxebarria graduated at the Faculty of Law of the University of Deusto, in Bilbao, where he also obtained his Ph.D. He is currently a full-time professor of criminal law at the Faculty of Law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. From 2005 to 2009 he was the director of criminal measure implementations of the Department of Justice of the Government of the Basque Country. From 2002 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2021 he has practiced criminal law and prison execution law. He was a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego in July and August 2019. He has published extensively on criminal law, prison implementation law, juvenile criminal law, terrorism and restorative justice. One of his most renowned publications is Manual de ejecución penitenciaria (Universidad Pontificia Comillas), which reached nine editions. He is currently a researcher in a Project I+D+i PID2019-105778RB-I00 on ‘Exclusión social y sistema penal y penitenciario: análisis y propuestas acerca de tres realidades (inmigración, refugio y enfermedad mental y prisión)’.
Contact: Departamento de Derecho Procesal y Derecho Penal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain.