5 PhD Positions, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2017)

The Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam has an international orientation and is strongly engaged in society, which is reflected in both its research and education activities. The Faculty offers three Bachelor’s programmes and a number of Master’s programmes, two of which are taught exclusively in English. With its 3.500 students and 375 staff members, it is one of the largest law faculties in the Netherlands.

The projects will be embedded within the lively and supportive intellectual environment of the research priority area ‘Law and Justice Across Borders’. which is founded by Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), and the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) in collaboration with the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence (PSC).

The objective of this research programme is to critically examine the Europeanization and/or internationalization of law and to study the consequences for traditional understandings of law and justice. The programme is thus not limited to describing and mapping existing law and practices across borders. Instead, it explicitly places the law in empirical and normative contexts. It exposes the social effects that it has, asks whether it meets standards of legitimacy and justice, whether it is reasonably acceptable to those affected by it, how it can be evaluated, and how it can possibly be improved. The researcher is free in her or his choice of a specific angle or methodology.

The RPA research programme can be obtained upon request.

The PhD candidates will benefit from committed research supervision by a team of experts in European Private Law, European Public Law, and Public International Law, as well as the interaction with other researchers.

Requirements

The successful candidates should:
- have a law degree, master’s level or equivalent;
- be specialized in the field of European private law, European public law or public international law;
- have a strong motivation to do PhD research;
- be proficient in English;
- have excellent scientific writing, planning and communication skills;
- preferably have some experience with the method of legal comparison;
- potentially have experience with empirical methods of data gathering (interviews; observations).

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