PhD position: Behavioral law and economics project on: Why do firms comply?

Updated: over 2 years ago
Deadline: tomorrow

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The Faculty of Law provides bachelor’s degree programmes in three main fields: Law, Notarial law and Criminology. In addition, we offer an extensive range of Master’s programmes as well as contract education. Our teaching and research focus on the social function and relevance of law: from contracts in the platform economy to the new way of working, from colonial injustice to medical liability, from family reunification to civil participation, from sex offenses to ransomware. Our research is often both international and multidisciplinary in character.

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About the project
The research context
This PhD research project is funded by the interfaculty research centre Amsterdam Law and Behavior Institute (A-Lab) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It will be conducted in collaboration between the VU Faculty of Law (RCH), the VU School of Business and Economics (SBE) and the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR).Conceptually and in an organisational sense, the research builds on collaboration by Arjen van Witteloostuijn (SBE) and Wolf Sauter (RCH) into fairness bias, and on studies on explaining patterns of corporate compliance by Arjan Blokland (NSCR) and Wim Huisman (RCH). This PhD project will be supervised by these four professors.
Are you interested in this position? Please apply via the application button and upload your curriculum vitae and cover letter until November 12th, 2021

Applications received by e-mail will not be processed.

Vacancy questions
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy, you may contact:

Name: prof.dr. W. Huisman
Position: Chair of Criminology
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 020-5983560

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