Research professor in International Public Law (BOFZAP)

4 May 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

KU Leuven

Research Field

Juridical sciences

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)
Established Researcher (R3)
Leading Researcher (R4)

Country

Belgium

Application Deadline

3 Sep 2024 - 00:00 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

38 hours/week

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Reference Number

BZI-2024-5

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Research
As a research professor you will develop a broad research programme with a focus on public international law, understood broadly also to include transnational, global, or pluralist approaches to the law. With a view to ensuring complementarity with existing expertise in our RU in matters of public international law, including the law of international organisations, private international law and European institutional law, the new recruit will be expected to develop an innovative research agenda in at least one of the following themes:

• challenges created by migratory fluxes at international level (including migration caused by climate change, or other natural disasters);
• inter-state relations, peace & security (with a particular focus on armed conflicts, and including hybrid forms of conflicts);
• international organisations/international institutional law;
• the rule of law in an international context;
• environment, climate change, and energy law;
• the impact of new technologies on supranational governance;
• multilevel monetary governance;
• finance/development law;
• multinational undertakings in international trade and investment law;
• intersections, and interactions, between various forms of international dispute settlement (e.g. investor-state dispute settlement, arbitration, or adjudication).

The Faculty particularly welcomes candidates who would strengthen the Research Unit’s long-established profile as a leading research centre on the interaction between international and European legal orders, ranging from the European Union as an international actor and its participation in international institutions to the reception of international law in the European legal order.
You will be expected to:

• carry out independent research, develop an internationally competitive research programme and pursue excellent scientific results;
• develop national and international partnerships;
• be open to a multidisciplinary approach and intensive collaboration with other research groups at KU Leuven, notably, the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies;
• supervise and coach master’s students, PhD/junior researchers and postdoctoral researchers;
• seek to acquire competitive research funding from national and international funds;
• have a keen interest in fundamental research, while also paying attention to the valorisation and practical application of research results, e.g. through contacts with policymakers and stakeholders and by engaging in applied research that is relevant for decisionmakers and legal practice.

Teaching
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Requirements

Research Field

Juridical sciences

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Languages

ENGLISH

Level

Excellent

Languages

DUTCH

Level

Basic

Additional Information
Benefits

• We offer full-time employment in an intellectually stimulating environment.
• Depending on your application file and qualifications you will be appointed at one of the ranks of senior academic staff. In Belgium, each of these ranks are positions with ius promovendi that offer a prospect of promotion to full professor without your needing to apply for a new vacancy.
• As a senior academic staff member, in the course of your career you will have the possibility to make use of periods of sabbatical leave, during which you are exempted from regular duties. The purpose of these sabbaticals is to allow you to focus (even more) on your professional development or to recharge your academic batteries, without loss of salary.
• KU Leuven is well equipped to welcome foreign professors and their families and where possible offers practical support in the areas of immigration, housing, child care, learning Dutch, career coaching for the candidate’s partner, ...
• To facilitate scientific onboarding and accelerate research in the first phase a starting grant of circa 110.000,00 euros is offered to new professors if they meet the eligibility criteria determined by KU Leuven.

Eligibility criteria

• You have achieved excellence in study and research and you hold a PhD in Law (or at the very least you have set a date for your public PhD defence that is prior to the starting date of the appointment) and can demonstrate expertise in the themes identified above through publications and other research achievements. 
• You have an excellent research track record, which includes national and/or international peer-reviewed publications and/or other research achievements that demonstrate originality, a capacity for abstraction (note that we welcome innovative theoretical approaches) and openness to intra- and/or interdisciplinary research (such as drawing insights from sociology, political science/international relations, or economics).  We will take into account your current career stage when evaluating your application. 
• You have a well thought-out vision of and the capability to provide high-quality, research-based academic education and possess excellent didactic skills. Teaching experience is an asset. If you have evaluations of previous teaching assignments at your disposal, please add them to your application. 
• Finally, you possess demonstrable organisational, social, professional and leadership skills, as well as the collegiality and flexibility necessary to join an existing team. 
• Experience in legal practice is not required, but can be considered an asset. Experience with research supervision is not required, but can also be considered an asset. 
• The official administrative and teaching language of KU Leuven is Dutch. If you have no or insufficient knowledge of Dutch at the start of your appointment, KU Leuven offers language courses which will allow you to participate in board meetings. Candidates who are not Dutch-speaking should be willing to master Dutch at CEFR level B2 no later than 3 years after recruitment.  In addition, an excellent oral and written command of English is required. Knowledge of other languages, is a plus. KU Leuven offers training opportunities to strengthen your language skills.

Selection process

More information on the content of the job can be obtained from the academic contact person Prof. Dr. Elise Muir, Head of Research Unit for International and European Law, ([email protected] ) or Prof. Dr. Wouter Devroe, Dean Faculty of Law and Criminology, ([email protected] ). More information on the guidelines, regulations and application file is available from Ms. Kristin Vermeylen ([email protected] , tel. +32 16 32 09 07) or Ms. Martine van Nierop ([email protected] , tel. +32 16 32 76 98).

You can apply for this job no later than 03/09/2024 via the online application tool

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

KU Leuven

Country

Belgium

State/Province

Vlaams Brabant

City

Leuven

Postal Code

3000

Street

Leuven

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://easyapply.jobs/r/qkeBruq21QysXq21KHK2

Contact

State/Province

Leuven

City

Vlaams Brabant

Street

Leuven

Postal Code

3000

E-Mail

[email protected]

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