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The Amsterdam Law School and the Faculty of Economics & Business of the University of Amsterdam are recruiting an established and internationally recognized scholar (at the full or associate level) with demonstrated interest in research at the interface of law and finance. The candidate should be able to interact with both legal scholars and finance scholars.
The appointee will have a joint appointment at the Amsterdam Law School and the Faculty of Economics & Business of the University of Amsterdam.
The appointee will work at the intersection of law, finance and (political) economics. The position has been created to stimulate activities (research, teaching and outreach) at the interface between the law school, the business school and the school of economics. The chair will take an active role in initiating and coordinating activities in Law, Finance and Business within both faculties.
The successful candidate will have the leading role in the new Master in Law & Finance, jointly offered by the Amsterdam Law School and the Business School and teach one or more courses in this master programme.
At the Amsterdam Law School, the successful candidate will also be responsible for the Law & Business minor.
The chair holding professor has:
The position will be filled at the level of Associate or Full professor, depending on qualifications.
The successful chair holding professor will be offered an initial contract for 5 years; based on excellent performance, a permanent contract will be offered.
The salary is in accordance with the salary scales for professors at Dutch universities, scale H1, H2 (Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities) ranging from €5,334 to €9,375 gross per month (full-time equivalent) before tax, depending on expertise and previous experience. Secondary benefits at Dutch universities are attractive and include 8% holiday allowance and an 8,3% end-of-year allowance.
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.
he Amsterdam Law School is with over 3700 students and 400 staff members, one of the larger law schools in the Netherlands. It is ranked 23 on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for Law. It has a strong international profile with e.g. an interdisciplinary Bachelor program on Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE) and LLM programs in commercial legal practice, international trade and investment law, European competition law and international and European tax law. The Law School has internationally leading research groups on European contract law, public international law, European law and governance, information Law and International and European Tax Law.
The Faculty of Economics and Business organizes its education and teaching in two schools: Amsterdam Business School (ABS) and Amsterdam School of Economics (ASE). The ABS is an internationally recognized triple-crown accredited business school. It has around 3,000 students and 120 FTE academic staff. It has multiple department, covering e.g. finance, accounting, entrepreneurship and innovation, international strategy and marketing, HRM, and operations management. The Finance department at ABS is one of the top research departments in Europe. The department runs an academic seminar series with prominent speakers from top international universities. It also has a very active program of visitors and international conferences every year, thanks to strong links to the US, where many staff members have studied or taught previously, and Europe, where the Group participates in several top research networks. In teaching, it offers undergraduate and graduate courses, a MBA and the Master in International Finance.
The Amsterdam Law School and the faculty of Economics and Business collaborate in teaching and research. The Amsterdam Centre for Law and Economics (ACLE) is a world-leading centre of excellence, combining expertise from both law and economics. ACLE functions as an interdisciplinary platform and hosts a variety of activities that seek to encourage fruitful co-operation across these fields at the University of Amsterdam in interaction with international academia, fitting its overall mission. As of 1 September 2018, the two faculties have the intention to start the Master programme in Law & Finance.
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