The Faculty of Humanities has a vacancy for an Assistant professor of European Law.

As Assistant professor you will be expected to provide teaching in the area of European Law in first-year introductory courses, advanced bachelor courses for students majoring in European Law, and at the MA level. Your duties include teaching a survey of European Law, covering the substantive and institutional law of the EU, and more specialized courses about for example the internal market, the legal aspects of the Economic and Monetary Union of the EU, or European citizenship. Experience and affinity with teaching law in an interdisciplinary programme will be considered an advantage.

You should be an active researcher, with a well-developed publication record and research that engages with one of the themes of ARTES with which you will be affiliated. The School’s research is focused on three broad areas: European Identities, Institutions/Governance/Governmentalities, and Europe and the World. European Studies also participates in the Faculty research priority area ‘Cultural Heritage and Identity’. You should be able to bring your research experience to the classroom and the supervision of BA and MA students.

• Conducting independent research in European Law and/or European Studies, resulting in academic publications;
• pursuing external funding for research, notably funding from research councils;
• contributing to and developing national and international research networks and other forms of cooperation in your area of specialty;
• the development, coordination and provision of teaching in English and Dutch, in the BA and MA programmes, in the area of European law;
• supervising BA and MA theses and coaching students;
• an active contribution to the development and improvement of the broader teaching programmes, regarding didactics and the contents of the programmes, and their evaluation;
• taking part in committees and working groups, and carrying out departmental administrative tasks as directed.

The ideal candidate will be a legal scholar with a PhD and a strong interest in European law, preferably with experience of working in an interdisciplinary environment. The candidate should ideally have a strong research profile in one of the areas within EU Law, but given the nature of research and teaching at European studies, we also invite candidates with a background in the history, sociology or politics of law, or legal philosophy to apply. Interest and experience with interdisciplinary research and teaching will be considered an advantage.

Credentials required:

• University degree, and PhD in a relevant discipline;
• a research network, preferably international, in the research area concerned;
• research output commensurate with the level of the position;
• wide experience of different forms and levels of delivering university teaching, at BA and MA level;
• the Dutch Basic Teaching Qualification, or willingness to acquire this within a relatively short time-frame;
• experience of digital and audiovisual teaching facilities; affinity with ICT in university teaching;
• a good team worker and versatile at all levels, capable of multidisciplinary co-operation;
• good organizational experience and skills;
• good command of both English and Dutch; able to teach in both languages.

The appointment will be temporary for two years. Positive assessment and evaluation can be expected to lead to a permanent appointment. The appointment will commence on 1 December 2017 or 1 January 2018.

The UFO profile for this position is, dependent on relevant experience, Universitair docent 2 (scale 11) or Universitair docent 1 (scale 12).

The gross monthly salary will range from €3,475 (start scale 11) to €5,405 (end scale 12), based on a full-time appointment (38 hours a week). The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities is applicable.

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

Faculty of Humanities

European Studies at the University of Amsterdam is a large and highly successful academic department which operates as a top-rated hub for interdisciplinary research on Europe, and provides exciting and popular degree programmes at BA, MA and PhD level to well over 1,000 students. It successfully connects research and teaching in Law, Economics, Culture, History and Politics, and focuses both on the EU and on a wider Europe, broader in both time and space.

There is a strong and vibrant research culture in European Studies, which is located in the Faculty’s Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES). Individual and small-group research is encouraged and facilitated, including frequent seminars, conferences, funding opportunities and regular research interaction with colleagues both in European Law and across our range of disciplines. In the last national research assessment exercise in 2013, European Studies received a top, near-perfect grading (5,5,5,4).

In teaching, the BA programme (taught in separate Dutch and English tracks) consists of interdisciplinary core modules like European Integration, Turning Points in European History and European Literary History, alongside disciplinary specialisms (Majors) in European Law, Economics, History, East European Studies and Literature and Culture. The MA programme has four separate streams, including modules in European law. There is a close degree of co-operation in all the programmes between historians, lawyers, economists, and literature specialists. Details of the BA and MA programmes can be found at: European Studies.

The Faculty of Humanities offers assistant professors many opportunities to collaborate with leading researchers, and to teach in a dynamic context in which exciting new educational methods are being developed

Together with other new assistant professors you will participate in a comprehensive introductory programme. You will be supervised closely during the first year of your appointment. Additional didactical training is also part of the appointment. Based on the candidate's educational portfolio, previously acquired competences will be taken into consideration. The introductory programme includes earning the 'basic training qualification' (BKO).