PhD position, Faculty of Law University of Amsterdam
vacancy number 08-4011
For both internal and external candidates
The Legal Aid Chair was created by the Legal Aid Board and will cooperate closely with the Legal Profession Chair and the Legal Aid Management Chair. Research conducted by athe Legal Aid Chair focuses on state financed legal aid as a policy instrument to guarantee access to justice. Politicians, academic researchers and legal aid providers have been preoccupied by this theme for over fifty years in the Netherlands and abroad. At a certain point in time, the Netherlands was thought to have the best legal aid system in the world. Still today, the country enjoys a well-established and relatively comprehensive system. However, the ideological enthusiasm of the legal aid movement has waned somewhat. From a business perspective, providing legal aid is considered part of state policy. The financial viability of the system - in times of prosperity and recession - is a recurrent and as yet unresolved issue.
PhD project: towards an effective and sustainable legal aid system
The project focuses on the issue of which system or type of system would offer the best prospect of a substantively effective and financially viable access guarantee to justice. To this end, studies into a number of largely similar and/or contrasting legal systems are in progress, focusing on how the relevant policy and legal issues are formulated. While design is an important premise, actual implementation is considered in drawing up a list of strengths and weaknesses for each system.
Requirements
Candidates are expected to enclose a brief research proposal with their letter of application. Candidates should either be law graduates with an interest in social science research, or social science graduates with an interest in case law research.
Further information
For further information please contact prof. Mr. M. Westerveld, e-mail: M.Westerveld@uva.nl.
Appointment
The appointment is initially for the duration of one year, with the prospect of a three-year extension, leading to a Ph.D. degree. The monthly salary is €1867, rising to €2394 in the final year. The position offered is full-time. However, a part-time appointment for five years, amounting to 32 hours per week, may be negotiated. Training and supervision plans setting out the research and teaching obligations will be agreed upon with the successful candidate.
Job application
Letters of application, accompanied by a curriculum vitae and a research proposal, must be submitted before the 29th of May 2008, preferably by e-mail to ´solliciteren-fdr@uva.nl´, or by regular mail to the Managing Director of the Faculty of Law, dr. P.M. Kwantes, University of Amsterdam, Attn. Personnel and Organization department, P.O. Box 1030, 1000 BA Amsterdam. Please mark the letter as ‘strictly confidential'.
For both internal and external candidates
The Legal Aid Chair was created by the Legal Aid Board and will cooperate closely with the Legal Profession Chair and the Legal Aid Management Chair. Research conducted by athe Legal Aid Chair focuses on state financed legal aid as a policy instrument to guarantee access to justice. Politicians, academic researchers and legal aid providers have been preoccupied by this theme for over fifty years in the Netherlands and abroad. At a certain point in time, the Netherlands was thought to have the best legal aid system in the world. Still today, the country enjoys a well-established and relatively comprehensive system. However, the ideological enthusiasm of the legal aid movement has waned somewhat. From a business perspective, providing legal aid is considered part of state policy. The financial viability of the system - in times of prosperity and recession - is a recurrent and as yet unresolved issue.
PhD project: towards an effective and sustainable legal aid system
The project focuses on the issue of which system or type of system would offer the best prospect of a substantively effective and financially viable access guarantee to justice. To this end, studies into a number of largely similar and/or contrasting legal systems are in progress, focusing on how the relevant policy and legal issues are formulated. While design is an important premise, actual implementation is considered in drawing up a list of strengths and weaknesses for each system.
Requirements
Candidates are expected to enclose a brief research proposal with their letter of application. Candidates should either be law graduates with an interest in social science research, or social science graduates with an interest in case law research.
Further information
For further information please contact prof. Mr. M. Westerveld, e-mail: M.Westerveld@uva.nl.
Appointment
The appointment is initially for the duration of one year, with the prospect of a three-year extension, leading to a Ph.D. degree. The monthly salary is €1867, rising to €2394 in the final year. The position offered is full-time. However, a part-time appointment for five years, amounting to 32 hours per week, may be negotiated. Training and supervision plans setting out the research and teaching obligations will be agreed upon with the successful candidate.
Job application
Letters of application, accompanied by a curriculum vitae and a research proposal, must be submitted before the 29th of May 2008, preferably by e-mail to ´solliciteren-fdr@uva.nl´, or by regular mail to the Managing Director of the Faculty of Law, dr. P.M. Kwantes, University of Amsterdam, Attn. Personnel and Organization department, P.O. Box 1030, 1000 BA Amsterdam. Please mark the letter as ‘strictly confidential'.
