The Criminal Law Department is looking for an inspiring assistant professor in the field of Dutch and/or international criminal law with a proven track record of innovative and challenging research. The preference is for candidates who speak Dutch.

What are you going to do?

Your core tasks in this position are to teach, develop and reform courses in the field of Dutch and/or international criminal law, to conduct research and to carry out administrative tasks. As part of, and in addition to, these core tasks, as an assistant professor you will be engaged in:

• supervising undergraduate and graduate theses in the field of Dutch and/or international criminal law;
• performing coordination tasks for courses in the field of Dutch and/or international criminal law;
• (in time) Performing other administrative and organizational tasks for the department, section, and faculty (e.g., master track coordination, thesis coordination, participation in program committees and examination committees, etc.);
• conducting and publishing, individually as well as collaboratively, highquality research in the field of Dutch and/or national criminal law;
• preparing applications for external research funding.

What do we require?

For this position of assistant professor, we are looking for an (international) criminal lawyer with, preferably, several years of experience who recognizes herself in the following profile:

• you have completed a dissertation in the field of criminal law or are at least in the final stages of your PhD trajectory;
• you have demonstrable experience in, or interest in, developing and delivering innovative and studentactivating education at the university level;
• you have obtained the Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO) or you are willing to obtain this qualification;
• you have excellent organisational skills;
• you are proactive, flexible, and resultsoriented;
• you can express yourself very well in Dutch and English, or are willing to learn Dutch in the near future;
• if you have solid didactic knowledge and skills and experience with organization of higher education, this would be an advantage.

Our offer

The salary amounts to a minimum of €3.746 and a maximum of €5.826 gross per month (salary scale 11), based on full-time employment (38 hours). The UvA also offers extensive secondary employment benefits, including 8% vacation pay and 8.3% year-end bonus. The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities applies.

If desired, the candidate can be offered a UD position as part of a tenure track which, after five years, will lead to permanent employment as a UHD if the tenure track criteria are met. The UFO profile University Lecturer applies to this position. If the selected candidate prefers a tenure track to UHD, further requirements will be agreed upon at the commencement of the appointment that relate to the achievements to be made within the maximum period of five years in the field of (international) criminal law education and research, as well as administrative and organizational tasks, geared to the employee to be appointed. In principle, performance is monitored annually to ensure that it meets the requirements set, while the final assessment is made by an assessment committee.

University of Amsterdam

With over 6,000 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.

Amsterdam Law School – Department of Public Law

The Criminal Law Section is part of the Public Law Department and provides education and research in the field of national and international criminal (procedural) law. The research profile of the members of the section, which also determines the education, is national, international, comparative and interdisciplinary in nature. Members of the section teach in the bachelor's programme Dutch Law and the master's programme Public Law, track Criminal Law and in the master's programme International Criminal Law. The research of the members of the section is partly accommodated at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) and the recently founded Amsterdam Center for Criminal Justice (ACCJ). Connection of criminal law research to the new programs on digitalization and sustainability is also possible.