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We are looking for 3 PhD Candidates in the ERC-Funded Project, the Governance of Loss in the EU (GovLoss-EU) at the Amsterdam Law School, and the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance. You can read more about the project here, here or here.

The project will study the experiences of loss that emerge due to economic transformations linked to globalization, technological, and climate change (including efforts to mitigate it). These processes displace long-standing market and production arrangements and may create losers —workers, businesses, and consumers — who depend on these arrangements for their income and livelihoods or value them for other reasons. Think of small shops in the face of digital commerce; automotive workers in the face of robotization or the decline of the auto industry; web-developers whose jobs may be displaced by ever-more sophisticated AI tools; fisheries or farmers facing biodiversity loss. Understanding and being able to govern these transformation processes may be seen as key to Europe’s future prosperity.

With this premise, the project aims to study the legal and regulatory arrangements through which ‘losers’ can be assisted, and loss can be addressed (the Governance of Loss) in several industries, tentatively but not necessarily identified as the Automotive Industry, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Consumer Services (such as retail and tourism). Each selected candidate may study one industry, and/or several case studies within each industry, to be identified in consultation with the supervisors.