3 Phd Positions at Erasmus School of Law

These posts are part of the research centers ‘Public and Private interests: A new balance’ and Erasmus Center for Empirical Legal Studies (ECELS).

Position 1 and 2 (4 years):

o Erasmus School of Law welcomes proposals within the overarching theme ’Public and private interests: A new balance’,

o with a strong focus on empirical legal research,

o preference is given to proposals on topics situated at the intersection of private and public law,

o for at least one of the advertised PhD positions, Professor Peter Mascini (Chair empirical legal research) will be involved as methodology supervisor.

o Applicants are invited to submit a (short) research proposalwritten in English and in accordance with the application format, which can be found on the EGSL website. In their proposal, applicants are requested:

- to specifically include empirical legal research (ELR);

- to elaborate how this method will be applied in their research;

- to elaborate how their proposal aligns with public and private interests.

Position 3 (3 years) is for a specific project within the sectoral plan: Project 7. The needle in the haystack: international exchange of fiscal information 2.0 in the public and private interest. Applicants are asked to elaborate a (short) research proposal based on this description, written in English and in accordance with the application format, which can be found on the EGSL website.

A key aspect of Erasmus School of Law is that research groups work across the boundaries of legal disciplines, applying various methods of empirical legal research.. Within this research community, you will study the role of private actors, in particular businesses, in safeguarding public interests in one of the 11 PhD research projects. Furthermore, the research community is comprised of four professors and four postdoc researchers. The research will be conducted within the framework of the nationwide sectoral plan for legal science, and namely the two research areas of ’Public and private interests: A new balance’ and ‘Empirical Legal Studies’, in collaboration with our partner therein, the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen.