PhD Candidate: Enforcement of EU Law by National Regulatory Authorities

We invite applications for a PhD position on the research project 'Enforcement of EU legislation by national regulatory authorities'. This is a multidisciplinary project based on a cooperation between the Department of Public Administration at the Nijmegen School of Management and the Department of International and European Law at the Faculty of Law of Radboud University. You will be stationed at the Nijmegen School of Management but you will carry out your work in close cooperation with, and under the co-supervision of, professors from the Faculty of Law.

Your tasks will be to develop and conduct your own research project within the parameters of the project proposal. In order to research these topics, you will use a variety of methods. In addition to a study on the legal framework, based in part on EU law, policy documents and case law, qualitative empirical data will have to be gathered through, for example, in-depth interviews, small-scale surveys, participant observation and/or focus groups. The project’s substantive focus lies on the domains of competition, transport and food safety. The regulatory authorities that are to take centre stage in the research are the Consumer and Market Authority (ACM) and the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (VWA).
Aside from conducting your research project and writing academic articles/chapters, you will participate in conferences, organise and facilitate academic and non-academic workshops and seminars, and contribute to teaching at the Nijmegen School of Management and/or the Faculty of Law. In addition, you will fulfil administrative support activities for the multidisciplinary EUROPAL research group, such as website maintenance and the organisation of research meetings.

For more details see the detailed research description .