2 PhD Candidates on Conflict Resolving Institutions at Leiden University

Leiden Law School is looking for two PhD Candidates on Conflict Resolving Institutions.

Your PhD project will be embedded in the sectoral plans of Leiden Law School and the Dutch government. More specifically, your project contributes to the sub-theme of conflict resolving institutions. Within this theme, our research focusses on the role of courts in settling major, and often sensitive, societal disputes. Can and should courts, for example, solve societal disputes on the environment, immigration, or vaccination? And if they do, how should they solve these disputes in an effective and legitimate manner? In light of these questions, the research follows a multidisciplinary approach and actively brings together researchers from different legal disciplines as well as the social sciences.

Within the theme of conflict solving institutions we are specifically offering two PhD positions. Each position entails a full time contract (in the Netherlands PhD’s are part of the staff, not students), and focusses on the following two projects:

Digitalization for future-proof (administrative) courts. Supervisors Bart Custers, email: b.h.m.custers@law.leidenuniv.nl, and Ymre Schuurmans.
Adapting EU courts to human nature: applying insights from social psychology to improve the legitimacy and conflict solving capacity of EU courts. Supervisors: Armin Cuyvers, email: a.cuyvers@law.leidenuniv.nl, and Daniël Scheepers.
Your appointment should lead to a completed and successfully defended PhD-thesis, and entails participation in the PhD-school and courses of Leiden Law School.

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2 PhD Candidates on Conflict Resolving Institutions at Leiden University