VACANCY: Professorship in Legal History (Tilburg: Tilburg University, DEADLINE 24 SEP 2021)

 

(image: "Hoofdwacht te Tilburg" (1830); source: Europeana/Rijksmuseum)

Tilburg University advertises a vacancy for a professorship in legal history (80%).

More information can be found here.

VACANCY: Research Professor in Modern Legal History (Post 1750) (KU Leuven; Deadline 19 SEP 2021)

 

(image: Duke John IV of Brabant, during whose reign the University of Leuven was first established; source: Wikimedia Commons)

The Faculty of Law of KU Leuven, invites scholars to apply for a full‐time research professorship in the Research Unit for Roman Law and Legal History. This position is funded by the Special Research Fund (BOFZAP), established by the Flemish Government.

 We are looking for motivated and internationally oriented candidates with an excellent research record and with educational competence in the field of modern legal history. The appointment is expected to start on October 1, 2022. Applications will be evaluated in parallel and independently by 1) the KU Leuven Research Council in a competitive process across academic domains and 2) the faculty advisory committee. During the first 10 years, the teaching obligations as a research professor will be limited. Afterwards, the position will be transformed into a regular professorship. This vacancy concerns modern legal history, since 1750. Preferably, the candidate should be adept in the comparative study of historical law, have a view on the Europeanisation and globalization of legal scholarship and see legal history as an integral part of legal thought. This position is imbedded in the Research Unit for Roman Law and Legal History. The unit consist of 3 professors and about 10 junior researchers. Its research focuses on European and international legal history since the 16th century, and in particular on three themes: the intellectual history of the jus commune, the history of economic law and the history of international law.

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VACANCY: Professor in Methods of Legal Research and Legal Theory (Ghent University, Deadline 22 FEB 2021)

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 Assignment:

The Faculty of Law and Criminology is recruiting a tenure track assistant professor for a full time position starting on 1 September 2021 in the discipline of Methods of Legal Research and Legal Theory. 

With this position, the faculty wishes to increase its expertise with a view to providing a sound methodological foundation for legal research in the faculty. This also requires the candidate to possess a solid knowledge of legal theory.

You will be appointed in the department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law (RE21). 

During the 5 year tenure track, you will have the possibility to devote most of your time to academic research activities in the field of Methods of Legal Research and Legal Theory, with a teaching load limited to no more than 8 ECTS credits per semester on average over a period of 3 years.

For the further development of the academic career, please see ‘Appointment information’ below.

Academic Research
You conduct research in the discipline of Methods of Legal Research and Legal Theory

 

Academic education

You will gradually be tasked with teaching assignments in the field of Methods of Legal Research and Legal Theory.

 

Academic services

You take part in the internal and external service provision of the department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law (RE21).
You advise colleagues on methodogical aspects of their academic research.

Profile

Experience
-    You have already conducted excellent academic research in the fields of methods of legal research and legal theory, which is clearly reflected in outstanding publications in national and international peer-reviewed books and/or journals;
-    You are didactically skilled to teach university students to develop academic competences; 
-    You are familiar with research methods in other social sciences.
-    Recommended are: 
          o    Experience in supervising research and/or coaching Ph.D. students;
          o    International mobility, among other things thanks to research stays at institutions external to the  one where you acquired your highest academic degree;
          o    Positively evaluated experience in provided or organised academic lecturing;
          o    Professionalisation of education.

 

Skills / Attitude 
-    You are quality-oriented; 
-    You take initiative;
-    You are a proactive person and possess strong interpersonal skills;
-    You are able to coach and adequately supervise young researchers.

 

Admission requirements
-    You hold a thesis-based doctorate or a diploma or certificate that is recognised as equivalent (article V.20 Codex Higher Education). 

 

Upon evaluation of a foreign (non-EU) diploma, a certificate of equivalence may still have to be requested at NARIC. If this is the case, we advise you to initiate this recognition procedure as soon as possible. You are required to have the recognition no later than on the date of your appointment. 

 

-    You have at least two years of postdoctoral experience 1 september 2021. This term of two years is determined by the date written on the above-mentioned required diploma.

 Appointment information

We offer you a temporary appointment as an assistant professor in a tenure track system for a term of five years with a focus on research. If positively evaluated by the University Board, the term of office will be transferred into a permanent appointment as an associate professor. At that moment the time devoted to research, education and academic services may be altered. The recruitment is possible no sooner than 1 september 2021.

More information here. 

VACANCY: Historian for the Research Project DIGICOLJUST: Colonial Violence, Subaltern Agency and Shared Archival Heritage: A Digital Platform of Colonial Judiciary Sources, 2 Years (Brussels: State Archives/VUB-ULB, DEADLINE 1 APR 2020)

(image: Leopold II, King of the Belgians; souce: Wikimedia Commons)

Project abstract:
DIGICOLJUST – Colonial Violence, Subaltern Agency and Shared Archival Heritage: A Digital Platform of Colonial Judiciary Sources Funded by the BELSPO program BRAIN-be2.0 and based on a partnership between AGR/ARA, ULB and VUB, DIGICOLJUST is a two-year digitizing and scientific project starting from a poorly-known archival collection of strategic importance for the history of Belgian colonialism in Central Africa and for the Belgian State Archives collections: the archives of the trial records of the court martials of the Congo Free State (1885-1908) and of the Belgian Congo (1908-1960). This project aims to make these records accessible and to explore new research agendas related to controversial issues of colonial violence and repression as well as to African agency and its modes of expression in colonial courtrooms. DIGICOLJUST will work on three levels: (1) identification and inventory of sources; (2) digitization and preservation; (3) digital dissemination and scientific valorization.

(more information here)