The Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam has an opening for a PhD position. The PhD project will be focusing on interactions between two of the three sub-disciplines of European Private Law, European Public Law, and Public International Law.

Project description

The research should connect with the research line of ‘Sustainable Global Economic Law’, focussing on two of the main challenges of the 21st century - high levels of inequality and climate change in their inextricable connection. The research aims to uncover the ways in which European private law, European public law, and public international law may together constitute the socio-economic reality that leads to climate change and high levels of inequality and asks whether and how law both contributes to underlying problems as well as how it can possibly be reformed or transformed in order to address them. A more detailed description of this overarching research line can be requested via email.

The PhD candidate will benefit from the faculty’s PhD programme, a vibrant PhD community, and committed research supervision by a team of experts in European private law, European public law, and public international law. The project will be embedded within the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), and the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL).

This PhD position will be based either at the Department of Private Law or the Department of Public International Law and European Law, depending on the subject of the proposal.

The position is first and foremost a research position; yet the candidate will have the opportunity to be involved in individually agreed teaching in the field connected to their research.

As our successful candidate you will:

• carry out independent high-quality scientific research leading to the degree of PhD;
• actively contribute to the research community in the Law Faculty, in particular at the ACELG, ACIL and CSECL;
• present intermediate research results at international workshops and conferences;
• participate in the organization of research activities and events, such as conferences, workshops and joint publications;
• show the relevance of your research for society and contribute to the dissemination of research results;
• possibly contribute to teaching responsibilities in the field of your research. 

You should:

• have a law degree, master’s level or equivalent;
• be specialized in the field of European private law, European public law or public international law;
• have a strong motivation to do PhD research;
• be proficient in English;
• have excellent scientific writing, planning and communication skills;
• have an interest in, or potentially experience with methods of adjacent disciplines and their respective methods (i.e. history, philosophy, political economy, political science, etc.).

If you are our successful candidate you will be offered an initial contract of one year. Upon positive evaluation of your performance the contract will be extended by 3 more years.

The envisaged starting date is in principle 1 September 2019. The actual starting date can be subject to negotiation.

The gross fulltime monthly salary will be in accordance with the salary scales for PhD candidates at Dutch universities (Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities) ranging from €2,325 to €2,972 gross per month (fulltime equivalent). Secondary benefits at Dutch universities are attractive and include 8% holiday pay and an 8.3% end-of-year Bonus.

University of Amsterdam

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.

Amsterdam Law School

The Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam offers a broad choice of study programmes. Alongside its Bachelor’s programmes in General Law, Tax Law, and PPLE (Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics), we offer a number of English-language Master’s programmes.

Amsterdam Law School in brief:

• One of the largest law schools in the Netherlands
• About 3700 students
• About 400 staff members
• 5 Divisions
• Research organised in the Amsterdam Research Institute for Legal Studies (ARILS)
• Research priorities include private and public European law, information law and the international rule of law.

https://www.uva.nl/en/faculty/amsterdam-law-school/amsterdam-law-school.html