Job Faculty of Law - PhD position Criminal Law (1,0 fte)

The Department is looking for a candidate to conduct research regarding conspiracy. The position also involves teaching (20%). Teaching will concentrate, in case of a candidate who doesn't speak Dutch, on the English courses.

The ideal candidate:
- has a law degree, specialization Criminal Law
- is interested in research with a comparative perspective
- has excellent writing skills
- has teaching experience.

The University of Groningen offers a salary of € 2,042 gross per month in the first year, up to € 2,612 gross per month in the last year for a full-time position. Initially, the appointment will be for a period of 18 months. After one year, the PhD's performance will be assessed. If the result of the assessment is positive, the appointment can be extended till 4 years (or 5 years with a 80% position). The appointment has to be completed with a individual dissertation. Within the appointment, there is an average of 20% work time that is spent on teaching.

Appointment commences: November 1, 2010.

The Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen is a modern, internationally oriented institution which builds on a longstanding tradition of almost four centuries. The Faculty has the ambition to measure itself with the best law faculties in Europe. Advanced systems of quality control have been implemented for a continuous improvement of research and education.

The research in the Faculty of Law consists of three legal area transcending, multidisciplinary and internationally orientated research lines, which are set up by Research Centres of the faculty's Research Institute Centre for Law, Administration and Society (Centrum voor Recht, Bestuur en Samenleving (CRBS)).
These Research Centres, in which all Field of Law Specific Research Groups participate, are:
1. Seeking justice and finding justice: about the process of administration of justice
2. Securing public interest in private arrangements
3. Convergence and divergence in a shared legal orders.

Further information about the faculty's research lines can be obtained from our website at http://www.rug.nl/rechten/onderzoek/index

Information about the research programme in the field of criminal law can be obtained from our website at:
http://www.rug.nl/rechten/faculteit/vakgroepen/stcr/str/onderzoek/index

The Department of Criminal Law and Criminology gives courses in Dutch and English. These courses cover all aspects of substantive criminal law, criminal procedure and criminology.

Prof. B.F. Keulen
+31 50 3634840,
b.f.keulen@rug.nl