Overview
Postdocs and the PhD candidates will carry out research in the framework of the project Shared Responsibility in International Law (SHARES), a five-year research project funded by the European Science Foundation, which started on 1 May 2010.
SHARES will explore the allocation of international responsibility in cases where states and other actors cooperate to pursue common objectives, for example in the field of environmental protection, financial stability, or protection of human populations from mass atrocities. While such cooperation serves laudable objectives, it also may come with a cost: it may diffuse who is responsible for what.
SHARES is based on the fact that as the responsibility for policies is shared among several actors, the discrete responsibility of every individual actor is likely to diminish proportionately. By complicating the determination of who is responsible for what, international cooperative ventures paradoxically may bring the key objectives of any scheme of responsibility more difficult to achieve: the protection of the international rule of law and the provision of remedies of injured parties. The dominant principle of individual responsibility of states and organizations, and the scholarship based on it, provide neither the concepts nor the perspectives for addressing shared responsibilities. Now that the International Law Commission is reaching the end of a more than 50 year project to develop principles and doctrine on international responsibility without having addressed the problem of shared responsibilities, there is a critical need for a fundamental research effort to move beyond the state of the art.
The project will pursue two separate and interlocking tracks, focusing on principles and processes of international responsibility. As to principles, it will examine on the basis of what principles multiple actors can be held collectively, jointly or proportionately responsible when cooperation fails to deliver its promises, and breaches international law. As to processes, SHARES will rethink how judicial and quasi-judicial processes may better take into account the collective context of the international policies of states and other actors, thereby better serving the twin objectives of the protection of the rule of law and the interests of injured parties.
The research team for SHARES will complement a conceptual and theoretical foundation for shared responsibilities with an empirical approach. It will explore on the basis of a range of case-studies in different issue areas what arrangements have been made for dealing with shared responsibility and what lessons can be learned from these experiences.
The postdocs will carry out independent research into the substantive and procedural aspects of shared responsibility.
The PhD candidates will carry out research on discrete questions of shared responsibility. These may include in depth studies of particular principles or procedures, such as the principle of causation, the principle of joint and several responsibility, and the position of jointly responsible states in international dispute settlement.
The PhD projects also may concern particular case-studies of shared responsibility. Examples are principles and processes for sharing responsibility for acts or omissions that contribute to climate change, principles and processes for sharing responsibility between states and other actors involved in joint military actions, such as military actions in Afghanistan or Iraq and principles and processes for sharing responsibility between states and other actors responsible for the depletion of fish stocks.
Candidates may submit proposals for other case-studies that fit within the overall research project.
Tasks of the postdoctoral researchers:
• Conduct independent research into the substantive and procedural aspects of SHARES
• Assist in general leadership of the project
• Assist in supervision of the PhD candidates within SHARES
• Candidates may also lecture on subjects in the Faculty's curriculum that are related to SHARES
Tasks of the PhD candidates:
• Engage in supervised scientific research that will ultimately result in a doctoral thesis
• Candidates may also lecture on subjects in the Faculty's curriculum
Requirements
Qualifications of the postdoctoral researchers:
• A PhD in public international law
• Excellent writing skills, fluency in English
Qualifications of the PhD candidates:
• Qualified jurist with excellent knowledge of public international law
• Excellent writing skills, fluency in English
Conditions of employment
The appointment will be full-time (38 hours a week). A part-time appointment (32 hours per week) is negotiable. The starting date is 1 September 2010. The appointment will initially be for 1 year. Extension of the contract to a maximum of 2-3 years (for postdoctoral researchers) or four years (for PhD candidates) is subject to satisfactory performance after the first year.
The gross full-time monthly salary will be in accordance with the salary scales for PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers at Dutch universities, i.e., ranging from €2,042 in the first year to €2,612 in the final year for PhD candidates, and ranging from €2,379 to €4,374 (salary scales 10-11) for postdoctoral researchers.
Department
The Faculty of Law is strongly engaged in society and has an international orientation, which is reflected in its research and education activities. The Faculty offers three Bachelor's programmes and a number of Master's programmes, two of which are taught exclusively in English (i.e. International and European Law and European Private Law). With its 3,500 students and 375 staff members, it is one of the largest law faculties in the Netherlands. The Faculty is located in the centre of Amsterdam.
Research in the field of public international law is embedded in the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), one of the Faculty's centres of excellence. Amsterdam Center for International Law
Additional information
For further information, please contact Prof. mr. P.A. Nollkaemper: P.A.Nollkaemper@uva.nl
To apply for this position, visit AcademicTransfer for the original posting, and many other PhD vacancies.
Website: http://www.jur.uva.nl/aciluk/home.cfm
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this opportunity
Postdocs and the PhD candidates will carry out research in the framework of the project Shared Responsibility in International Law (SHARES), a five-year research project funded by the European Science Foundation, which started on 1 May 2010.
SHARES will explore the allocation of international responsibility in cases where states and other actors cooperate to pursue common objectives, for example in the field of environmental protection, financial stability, or protection of human populations from mass atrocities. While such cooperation serves laudable objectives, it also may come with a cost: it may diffuse who is responsible for what.
SHARES is based on the fact that as the responsibility for policies is shared among several actors, the discrete responsibility of every individual actor is likely to diminish proportionately. By complicating the determination of who is responsible for what, international cooperative ventures paradoxically may bring the key objectives of any scheme of responsibility more difficult to achieve: the protection of the international rule of law and the provision of remedies of injured parties. The dominant principle of individual responsibility of states and organizations, and the scholarship based on it, provide neither the concepts nor the perspectives for addressing shared responsibilities. Now that the International Law Commission is reaching the end of a more than 50 year project to develop principles and doctrine on international responsibility without having addressed the problem of shared responsibilities, there is a critical need for a fundamental research effort to move beyond the state of the art.
The project will pursue two separate and interlocking tracks, focusing on principles and processes of international responsibility. As to principles, it will examine on the basis of what principles multiple actors can be held collectively, jointly or proportionately responsible when cooperation fails to deliver its promises, and breaches international law. As to processes, SHARES will rethink how judicial and quasi-judicial processes may better take into account the collective context of the international policies of states and other actors, thereby better serving the twin objectives of the protection of the rule of law and the interests of injured parties.
The research team for SHARES will complement a conceptual and theoretical foundation for shared responsibilities with an empirical approach. It will explore on the basis of a range of case-studies in different issue areas what arrangements have been made for dealing with shared responsibility and what lessons can be learned from these experiences.
The postdocs will carry out independent research into the substantive and procedural aspects of shared responsibility.
The PhD candidates will carry out research on discrete questions of shared responsibility. These may include in depth studies of particular principles or procedures, such as the principle of causation, the principle of joint and several responsibility, and the position of jointly responsible states in international dispute settlement.
The PhD projects also may concern particular case-studies of shared responsibility. Examples are principles and processes for sharing responsibility for acts or omissions that contribute to climate change, principles and processes for sharing responsibility between states and other actors involved in joint military actions, such as military actions in Afghanistan or Iraq and principles and processes for sharing responsibility between states and other actors responsible for the depletion of fish stocks.
Candidates may submit proposals for other case-studies that fit within the overall research project.
Tasks of the postdoctoral researchers:
• Conduct independent research into the substantive and procedural aspects of SHARES
• Assist in general leadership of the project
• Assist in supervision of the PhD candidates within SHARES
• Candidates may also lecture on subjects in the Faculty's curriculum that are related to SHARES
Tasks of the PhD candidates:
• Engage in supervised scientific research that will ultimately result in a doctoral thesis
• Candidates may also lecture on subjects in the Faculty's curriculum
Requirements
Qualifications of the postdoctoral researchers:
• A PhD in public international law
• Excellent writing skills, fluency in English
Qualifications of the PhD candidates:
• Qualified jurist with excellent knowledge of public international law
• Excellent writing skills, fluency in English
Conditions of employment
The appointment will be full-time (38 hours a week). A part-time appointment (32 hours per week) is negotiable. The starting date is 1 September 2010. The appointment will initially be for 1 year. Extension of the contract to a maximum of 2-3 years (for postdoctoral researchers) or four years (for PhD candidates) is subject to satisfactory performance after the first year.
The gross full-time monthly salary will be in accordance with the salary scales for PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers at Dutch universities, i.e., ranging from €2,042 in the first year to €2,612 in the final year for PhD candidates, and ranging from €2,379 to €4,374 (salary scales 10-11) for postdoctoral researchers.
Department
The Faculty of Law is strongly engaged in society and has an international orientation, which is reflected in its research and education activities. The Faculty offers three Bachelor's programmes and a number of Master's programmes, two of which are taught exclusively in English (i.e. International and European Law and European Private Law). With its 3,500 students and 375 staff members, it is one of the largest law faculties in the Netherlands. The Faculty is located in the centre of Amsterdam.
Research in the field of public international law is embedded in the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), one of the Faculty's centres of excellence. Amsterdam Center for International Law
Additional information
For further information, please contact Prof. mr. P.A. Nollkaemper: P.A.Nollkaemper@uva.nl
To apply for this position, visit AcademicTransfer for the original posting, and many other PhD vacancies.
Website: http://www.jur.uva.nl/aciluk/home.cfm
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this opportunity
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