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PhD Researcher in European Law for the project RED SPINEL

RED-SPINEL stands for 'Respond to Emerging Dissensus: SuPranational Intruments and Norms of European democracy'. It is an interdisciplinary and intersectional research project bringing together 11 partner organisations from 8 European countries. The partners will jointly analyse the changing nature of dissensus surrounding liberal democracy and its implications for EU supranational policy instruments.

The research group at ACELG will focus on the question of  how fundamental rights within the EU can be protected through expert knowledge, citizen participation and/or judicial instruments.

Within the three years allocated to the project you will execute your PhD research under the supervision of Professor Christina Eckes (UvA) and Professor Chiara Armeni (Université libre de Bruxelles - ULB).

Deadline 12 June

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PhD Researcher in International and European Law funded by GEM Diamond

This doctoral fellowship is offered as part of a specific collective project within a multiannual international research effort on Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism (GEM). The project will assess the EU’s capacity to act given the challenges facing Democratic Institutions, the rise of Alternative MOdels and mounting Normative Dissensus (DIAMOND).

Entitled ‘Law and practice of the rule of law within the European Union’ the individual research project will assess how EU law and the European fundamental rights system have been at the forefront of several legal conflicts within Europe regarding liberal democracy. The Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights, and several national courts have ruled on politically salient issues creating legal narratives on and shaping our understanding of dissensus in Europe.

The research project will focus on how these rulings have formalised and legalised disagreements about the meaning of democracy, the rule of law and separation of powers, as well as substantive policies, such as migration, climate change, or gender-related issues.

Deadline 3 July

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