3 PhD Positions, Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence & Legal History, Tilburg University, Netherlands (2017-2018)

The Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History at Tilburg University invites applications for the following position:

Three Positions of Doctoral Researcher in Legal History (3 x 1.0 FTE): Collateral rights and Bankruptcy in Early Modern Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Lyon
Tilburg Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History

The position
The Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History is seeking for three full-time doctoral researchers (48 months) who will be working within the project ‘Analysing Coherence in Law Through Legal Scholarship’ (CLLS, funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant nr 714759), and which is concerned with the theme of collateral rights (securities) and bankruptcy.

The three doctoral researchers will analyze the municipal law and legal practices of three cities of commerce in the early modern period, as well as doctrinal texts commenting on the municipal law of these cities. The first position is concerned with Amsterdam, the second one with Frankfurt, and the third one with Lyon.

Profile
Candidates have studied law and/or history, and have written one or more papers on an institutional-historical or legal-historical topic. Candidates should demonstrate their interest in history and research methods (qualitative and⁄or quantitative). Acquaintance with archival research is a plus. For all three positions it is required that candidates have high proficiency in English, both written and spoken. They have a good command of Dutch (for the post concerning Amsterdam), reading proficiency in French (for the position concerning Lyon), or reading proficiency in German (for the vacancy on Frankfurt).

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