The Department of International and European Law of the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University (UM) intends to appoint a fulltime Assistant Professor of International Law (‘Universitair Docent’) with a starting date of 15 August 2022. Applicants must have proven expertise in public international law. The appointee will be required to teach at Bachelor and Master level, to contribute to the development of courses, to conduct high quality research within the Faculty’s research programme Integration of and Interaction between Legal Orders and the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, to write research and funding proposals and to fulfill administrative and management duties.

• PhD degree in international Law (or you will have obtained a PhD degree at the time of appointment);
• Excellent research and teaching skills;
• Excellent presentation and organisational skills;
• Excellent English language skills (written and spoken);
• Knowledge of the Dutch language is a distinct advantage;
• Maastricht University requires teaching staff to obtain the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ). If the successful applicant does not already possess this qualification or its equivalent, s/he must be willing to obtain this Qualification within two years.

You will be employed temporarily for 12 or 18 months (depending on your employment history) as assistant professor (level 2), and will co-develop and agree to specific development goals. Towards the end of this contract period, the decision will be taken on whether or not to grant an employment contract for an indefinite period. Your development goals will also allow you to grow further to the position of assistant professor (level 1).

The salary depends on academic qualifications and experience. The salary will be set between minimum gross monthly salary € 3.821,-- and maximum gross monthly salary of € 5.230,-- (according to assistant professor 2 scale), based on a full-time employment, of the Collective Labour Agreement of the Dutch Universities. For people recruited from abroad a reduced income tax rate may apply. Maastricht University has attractive employment conditions, which include a pension scheme, holidays, holiday allowance and an end of year bonus.

The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > About UM > Working at UM.

Maastricht University

The Faculty of Law of Maastricht University provides challenging and high-quality legal education for Bachelor and Master students. The Faculty is a pioneer in small-scale and innovative education, and trains lawyers for both the national and international labour market. The Faculty is in the top 3 of law schools in the EU and, with 51% foreign students, is the most international law faculty in Europe. It has 3000 students and more than 300 employees.

Maastricht University provides you with a unique international experience in a Dutch city. It is the most international university in the Netherlands and is still growing with more than 20,000 students and 4,700 employees. The University distinguishes itself through its innovative educational model, international character, and multidisciplinary approach to research and education. Thanks to the high quality of its research and education, as well as its strong social orientation, the University has built a solid reputation in its short existence. It is considered one of the best young universities in the world. UM has six faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Maastricht University aims to be and remain an attractive employer. It is convinced that it can achieve this by challenging and encouraging staff and students to get the best out of themselves, by employing staff members for the activities in which they can do their best work, and by hiring and retaining employees who fit the profile and ambition of UM.

Department of International and European law

The Department of International and European Law is the largest department of the Faculty of Law. Its work is focused on areas of institutional and substantive European Union law, public international law, international human rights law and international economic law, which play a prominent place in the Law Faculty’s teaching and research programmes.

The Department is responsible for courses in the following Bachelor and Master programmes of the Faculty of Law: the Bachelor Dutch Law, the Bachelor European Law School, the Master European Law School and the Master Globalisation and Law. It also provides courses at University College Maastricht, University College Venlo, the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University and the Law Faculty of Hasselt University in Belgium.

Research is carried out within the Faculty’s research programme (https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/faculties/law/research/research-programme) as well as the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights (MCfHR) (https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/maastricht-centre-human-rights).