Publication date: 24 juni 2019
Closing date: 14 juli 2019
Educational level: University
Hours per week: 38 hours
Indicative salary: €2,325 to €2,972 gross per month
Vacancy number: 19-424

Project description

The research should connect with the research line of ‘Sustainable Global Economic Law’, focussing on two of the main challenges of the 21^st century - high levels of inequality and climate change in their inextricable connection. The research aims to uncover the ways in which European private law, European public law, and public international law may together constitute the socio-economic reality that leads to climate change and high levels of inequality and asks whether and how law both contributes to underlying problems as well as how it can possibly be reformed or transformed in order to address them. A more detailed description of this overarching research line can be requested via email.

The PhD candidate will benefit from the faculty’s PhD programme, a vibrant PhD community, and committed research supervision by a team of experts in European private law, European public law, and public international law. The project will be embedded within the 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).

This PhD position will be based either at the Department of Private Law or the Department of Public International Law and European Law, depending on the subject of the proposal.

The position is first and foremost a research position; yet the candidate will have the opportunity to be involved in individually agreed teaching in the field connected to their research.

As our successful candidate you will:

• carry out independent high-quality scientific research leading to the degree of PhD;
• actively contribute to the research community in the Law Faculty, in particular at the ACELG, ACIL and CSECL;
• present intermediate research results at international workshops and conferences;
• participate in the organization of research activities and events, such as conferences, workshops and joint publications;
• show the relevance of your research for society and contribute to the dissemination of research results;
• possibly contribute to teaching responsibilities in the field of your research.