VUB Contextual Research in Law

  (image source: TREATYLAB )  Three full-time PhD vacancies for the ERC Consolidator Grant TREATYLAB ("The Labyrinth of Treaties, 1712-1763. International Law Behind the Scenes of Early Enlightenment Diplomacy") have been published.  More information on the project's website .

(image source: TREATYLAB )  Three full-time PhD vacancies for the ERC Consolidator Grant TREATYLAB ("The Labyrinth of Treaties, 1712-1763. International Law Behind the Scenes of Early Enlightenment Diplomacy") have been published.  More information on the project's website .

PhD scholarship: PhD Collective negotiations in sovereign default and corporate insolvency   Description The Faculty of Law and Criminology , Department Interdisciplinary Study of Law (JURI) , is looking for a PhD-student with a doctoral grant. More concretely your work package, for the preparation of a doctorate, contains: Our team is looking for a doctoral student (bursary position) for the project ‘Collective negotiations in sovereign default and corporate insolvency (1890- 1920)’. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, crises caused by defaulting states were discussed in committees of bondholders. These committees coordinated the negotiations and defended the interests of individual bondholders. The candidate will conduct research in archives. Based on an analysis of source material, the strategies developed to reconcile the interests of multiple bondholders will be exa...

Prof. Dave De ruysscher advertises two vacancies for PhD candidates on FWO Senior Fundamental Research Projects.  1. Cities as breeding grounds: legal change in financial law (ca. 1620-ca. 1750) More information here . 2. Collective negotiations in sovereign default and corporate insolvency (1890-1920) More information here .

Our colleagues of the Centre d'histoire du droit et d'anthropologie juridique  (ULB) have a vacancy for one fulltime academic assistant, the mandate starts on 1 October 2025. Read more here .

Aan de vakgroep Metajuridica (JURI) binnen de faculteit Recht en Criminologie van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel is een 20%-ZAP-mandaat gevacateerd in de rechts- en moraalfilosofie. Meer informatie in het vacaturebericht .

    (bron afbeelding:  Wikimedia Commons ) Aan de vakgroep Metajuridica van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel zijn  twee  vacatures gepubliceerd (startdatum 1 oktober 2023): Voltijds mandaatassistent politieke geschiedenis/rechtsgeschiedenis (zie  hier ) Voltijds mandaatassistent rechtsmethodologie (zie  hier )   Meer informatie in de vacatureberichten, deadline  19 mei 2023 .

  (image: the Brussels Grand Place in the seventeenth century; source: Wikimedia Commons ) Prof. Dave De ruysscher advertises a vacancy for a PhD-Fellow (four years) on " Legal History and Construction History ". Deadline 15 July 2023 . For more details see academia.edu .

  (bron afbeelding: Wikimedia Commons ) Aan de vakgroep Metajuridica van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel zijn twee vacatures gepubliceerd (startdatum 1 oktober 2023): Voltijds mandaatassistent politieke geschiedenis/rechtsgeschiedenis (zie hier ) Voltijds mandaatassistent rechtsmethodologie (zie hier )   Meer informatie in de vacatureberichten, deadline 19 mei 2023 .

This vacancy fits within the framework of the EOS research project “Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction History”, directed by professors Michiel Dehaene (UGent), Dave De ruysscher (VUB, Tilburg University), Rika Devos (ULB), Johan Lagae (UGent), Stephanie Van de Voorde (VUB) and Ine Wouters (VUB). In total, 3 PhD positions and 4 postdoc positions are included in this project (the fourth postdoc mandate will be opened later in 2023). An overview of the full project and all mandates involved can be consulted on: www.vub.be/arch/project/eos . The EOS research project will set up a dialogue (in terms of sources, methodologies, concepts and cognitive interests) between Construction History and three other fields of history, namely Colonial History, Legal History and Planning History. As such, the project sets out to strengthen the historical dimension of Construction History, while simultaneously demonstrating its relevance and potential to other fie...

  EUTopia is the European University wherin the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and nine other partner institutions have jointly undertaken an ambitious programme of integration in teaching and research. Connected Learning Community Legal History:Minority Rights The EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History recruits a 20% Teaching Associate  ("Pedagogisch Medewerker") to support the activities in the academic year 2022-2023. The EUTopia Connected Learning Communities are incubators for innovative and societally relevant teaching methods . They enable us to connect students from the various EUTopia campuses across the continent. The Learning Community Legal History is part of the second wave of CoLeCos. Its first year of operations (2022-2023) brought together students from Brussels (VUB), Barcelona (UPF), Warwick, Ljubljana and CY Paris in a physical peak event  and a number of online lectures , seminars  and informal exchange moments. Lecturers, external expe...

  (1) Several  research vacancies  have been published at the to work with Prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher: PhD Scholarship Legal History and Construction History. More information  here  ( Deadline 4 July 2022) . Doctoraatsbeurs 'Onderzoeker faillissement in de negentiende eeuw'. More information  here  ( Deadline 14 July 2022)  . Postdoc position in Legal History and Construction History (4 years, at the ULB, with prof. De ruysscher as co-supervisor). More information  here  ( Deadline 30 June 2022) . (2) A part-time position as teaching assistant for "Historische en Vergelijkende Inleiding tot het Publiekrecht" (Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt) is vacant as well ( Deadline 9 June 2022) . Warning: this latter position is only open to candidates  fluent in Dutch .