Do you enjoy:
- Doing (empirical) research on the law and practice of the rule of law within the European Union
- Being part of a vibrant research community and of an international research project
- Participating in academic exchanges
Then the job of PhD researcher for the project GEM DIAMOND at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is perfect for you as a graduate of a Master study in International and/or European Law or a research master.
What does this job entailThis 3-year-long doctoral fellowship is offered as part of a specific collective project within a multiannual international research effort on
Globalisation,
Europe, and
Multilateralism (GEM). This project, coordinated by the Institut d'études européennes (IEE) at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), will assess the EU's capacity to act given the challenges facing
Democratic
Institutions, the rise of
Alternative
MOdels and mounting
Normative
Dissensus (DIAMOND).
GEM-DIAMOND is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Action - Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) involving 7 European and 4 international degree-awarding Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) alongside 6 well-established non-academic institutions. The project will hire and train 16 doctoral fellows to help address knowledge gaps associated with the growing normative tensions undermining multilateral and democratic practice. Four of the 16 doctoral fellows will be based at the University of Amsterdam, one of whom at the Amsterdam Law School.
The goal of your specific legal research project (ESR3 within working package 1, Conceptualising Growing Dissensus over Liberal Democracy) is to assess how EU law and the European fundamental rights system have been at the forefront of several legal conflicts within Europe regarding liberal democracy.
Within the three years allocated to the project you will execute your PhD research in close collaboration with the other Amsterdam project team members at the Faculty of Social Sciences and during two extended research stays at the University of Geneva and at the Fédération Internationale Pour Les Droits Humains FIDH in Brussel. Your research project will be supervised by Professor Christina Eckes (UvA -
ACELG) and Professor Nicolas Levrat (University of Geneva) and mentored by Dr Elena Crespi (FIDH). It will lead to completion and publication of a PhD dissertation and a joint doctorate from the Universities of Amsterdam and Geneva. You will engage autonomously in the collection of empirical data (interviews; document analysis) and present intermediate research results in internal discussions and potentially at workshops and conferences. For further information on the research project and the tasks associated with it, see
www.gem-diamond.eu