Friday 14 December 2012

Sweden: DOCTORAL CANDIDATE IN PRIVATE LAW, EU-LAW, PUBLIC LAW OR SOCIAL AND WELFARE LAW

Deadline: 8 Feb. 2013

Type of employment: Limit of tenure, equivalent to four years of full-time studies 
Extent: 100 % 
Location: Department of Law, Lund 
First day of employment: as soon as possible 
Official Records Number: JPA 2012/133
The Faculty of Law in Lund announces a doctoral student position in private law, EU-law, public law or social and welfare law.
The doctoral candidate position is partly financed by and integrated into a larger research programme, Elder Law, at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. The research environment is interdisciplinary and cover disciplines such as labour law, family law, social and welfare law, public law, EU-law and comparative law. The program is finances by Ragnar Söderberg’s Foundation, Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and the Law Faculty. The research programme Elder Lawis led by Professor Ann Numhauser-Henning and members are also, among others, Professor Titti Mattsson and Professor Eva Ryrstedt (intended main alternative supervisors).

The doctoral project and its subject shall be conducted and situated within the research programme in Elder Law and its main focus-area ‘Legal Empowerment of Elderly Citizens’ (see www.jur.lu.se/elderlaw).

Elder Law is an interdisciplinary research area of great societal importance. The goal is to create and integrated research environment in which different aspects of the legal conditions of ageing can be studied long-term and merged into a deeper body of knowledge about the status of the elderly in society, with a focus on national and EU law, but also including comparative elements.

Job assignments

Those appointed to doctoral studentships shall primarily devote themselves to their studies. 
Those appointed to doctoral studentships may, however, work to a limited extent with educational tasks, research and administration. Before a doctorate has been awarded, however, duties of this kind may not comprise more than 20 per cent of a full time post. (Higher Education Ordinance chapter 5 section 2)

The applicant must have obtained the degree of Master of Laws or the equivalent no later than 8 February 2013.

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