Tilburg Law School seeks applications for a lecturer position in the Department of Private, Business & Labour Law, effective fall 2020. The candidate selected will join a well-established department with faculty members who teach a variety of residential and online courses on topics related to business law, corporate law, and private law at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Lecturers have teaching and service responsibilities and are also expected to engage in research activities. We would be pleased to hear from applicants who are willing to pursue a PhD.

The candidate selected has an interest in business, technology, and legal design. The candidate will teach graduate and undergraduate courses on topics related to business law, finance, entrepreneurship, and technology to international students. Further, the candidate will mentor and advise graduate students, participate in committees, and build bridges with programs internal and external to the Department of Private, Business & Labour Law and with industry partners and law firms.

Tilburg University believes that academic excellence is achieved through the combination of outstanding research and education, in which social impact is made by sharing knowledge. In doing so, we recognize that excellence is not only achieved through individual performance, but mostly through team effort in which each team member acts as a leader connecting people. 

To be qualified,

• You have an LLM degree (or equivalent qualification in the field of business, corporate or commercial law, or in the field of private law).
• You are interested in, and preferably have experience with, Legal Design and/or Legal Tech;
• You have excellent communication skills.
• You demonstrate the potential to be an outstanding lecturer. You are expected to have a Basic Teaching Qualification (in Dutch: BKO) or are prepared to acquire this within the first two years of your employment. In case you are a junior lecturer, you first participate in the Development Program Starting Lecturers. 
• You are proficient in English.
• You demonstrate scientific integrity.
• You contribute to an open and diversified culture of excellence.

Tilburg University offers excellent terms of employment. We believe flexibility, development, and good employee benefits are very important. We make clear agreements on career paths and offer all kinds of facilities and schemes to maintain an optimum balance between work and private life. Tilburg University fosters diversity and inclusion; that is why we pursue an active policy for inclusive teams where diverse talents can flourish.

The starting gross salary varies between € 2.790,= and € 4.402,= per month (full time) based on scale 10 of the Collective Labor Agreement Dutch Universities. Tilburg University actively promotes equal and transparent salary between men and women by strictly applying predetermined parameters based on the candidate’s experience. Employees recruited from abroad may be eligible for the 30% tax facility- this means that 30% of your salary will be paid as a tax-free reimbursement.

Tilburg University offers you an employment agreement for a fixed period of 4 years and 0,8 – 1,0 fte (32 – 40 hours per week). 

You are entitled to a holiday allowance amounting to 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3% of your gross yearly income. If you work 40 hours per week, you receive 41 days of paid recreational leave per year.

Please visit Working at Tilburg University for more information on our employment conditions. 

Tilburg University

Under the motto of ‘Understanding society’, Tilburg University’s more than 1,500 employees develop knowledge, transfer it to others, and bring people from various disciplines and organizations together. In this way, we want to contribute to solving complex social issues. Our focus areas are economics, business and entrepreneurship, social and behavioral sciences, law and public administration, the humanities and digital sciences, and theology. Tilburg University is internationally known for its high standards in education and scientific research, as well as its good support facilities. The Tilburg University campus offers both quietness and connectivity as it is located in a wooded park, ten minutes away from the city center, main highways, and railways. A mid-sized city of 200,000 inhabitants in the South of the Netherlands, and in proximity to cities like Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and London, Tilburg is situated at the very heart of Western Europe. 

Tilburg Law School offers highly ranked national and international education and research in law and public administration. Currently, almost 4,000 students are enrolled at Tilburg Law School. Students in Tilburg can choose from five Bachelor's programs, one of which is taught in English (Bachelor Global Law) and ten Master's programs, eight of which are taught in English. The international orientation of Tilburg Law School is reflected in these Bachelor's and Master's programs. The research conducted within Tilburg Law School is aimed at social relevance and provides students with the tools and skills to study and deal with current issues at an academic level. The research within Tilburg Law School is organized into five cross-departmental research programs: 1) Global Law and Governance; 2) New Modes of Lawmaking and Governance in a Multilayered Order; 3) Law and Security; 4) Sustainable Business Law and Taxation; and 5) Law and Technology. 

Department of Private, Business & Labour Law (PBLL)

The department of Private, Business & Labour Law (PBLL) employs around 45 fte personnel. It participates in and organizes many of the Bachelor and Master programs of Tilburg Law School, in particular the Bachelor Rechtsgeleerdheid (Dutch Law), the Global Law Bachelor, and the Master programs Rechtsgeleerdheid (Dutch Law), Ondernemingsrecht (Business Law), and International Business Law, as well as other programs, in particular the joint Data Science Bachelor with Technical University Eindhoven.
The education in the Global Law Bachelor invites students to study the law from a global perspective, preparing them for a career where solutions from multiple jurisdictions are to be synthesized. The Bachelor Program aims at preparing the students, inter alia, to global legal practice in commercial advocacy and business organizations.