You will study the ambivalent role of the European Court of Human Rights as an actor and forum for the human rights turn in legal discourses on migration. Your research will be part of the project entitled "Who is empowered by Strasbourg? Migrants and States before the European Court of Human Rights". This is one of ten projects which together form the interdisciplinary research group "Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies" (Menschenrechtsdiskurse in der Migrationsgesellschaft, MeDiMi). The aim of MeDiMi is to determine the scope, forms and consequences of the expansion of human rights discourse in contemporary migration societies.
Your doctoral thesis will be designed as a bi-national PhD between the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and JLU Giessen ('co-tutelle'). You will cooperate closely with the project team located at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law (ACMRL) and be embedded in a cooperative research consortium with MeDiMi partner institutes in Germany.
Your duties
learn to independently conduct high-quality research, culminating in a monographic study (PhD thesis)
collaborate with researchers within and outside the ACMRL and the MeDiMi consortium
conduct legal analysis of relevant judgments
make a (small) contribution to teaching