Graduate teaching & research assistant law European Union

Organisation/Company University of Antwerp Research Field Juridical sciences » European law Juridical sciences » International law Juridical sciences » Other Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Final date to receive applications 2 Mar 2026 - 22:59 (UTC) Country Belgium Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

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The Faculty of Law has the following full-time vacancy:
graduate teaching & research assistant in the field of the law of the European Union
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As a graduate teaching & research assistant, you are part of the academic assistant staff (Dutch: Assisterend Academisch Personeel, AAP). You spend at least 50% of your working time preparing a PhD thesis. In addition, you play an assisting role in teaching, research and service activities.

• You work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of the law of the European Union (with particular emphasis on the general principles, the sources and the institutional law, judicial protection, the internal market, the area of freedom, security and justice, Union citizenship and/or EU private international law). The PhD project is in line with the research lines of the Research group Government & Law.
• You organise your own PhD research and report on your progress regularly.
• You provide support with teaching and teach high-quality academic classes yourself
  • You will provide, among other things, legal skills education in the bachelor of laws.
  • You provide educational support for some course units, for example:
    • Recht van de Europese Unie (bachelor; 6 ECTS)
    • Grondige Studie Recht van de Europese Unie (master; 9 ECTS)
    • Judicial Protection in the European Union (master; 3 ECTS)
  • Your teaching role evolves along with the study programmes.
  • You supervise students and their Bachelor and Master dissertations and you assist in the evaluation of these dissertations.

• You assist in ongoing research projects and the activities of the research group Government & Law in the field of the law of the European Union (with particular emphasis on the general principles, the sources and the institutional law, judicial protection, the internal market, the area of freedom, security and justice, Union citizenship and/or EU private international law).
• You present at academic conferences and aim to publish them in scientific journals.
• You contribute to attracting (inter) national research funding.

• You play an active role in the academic and societal service provision of the Faculty of Law and the UAntwerp. You assist in student recruitment and alumni activities, supervise examinations and serve on boards and committees.

• You hold a law degree or a master's degree in law or you will have obtained it by the time you start work.
• You submit a PhD proposal (in Dutch or English) that is in line with the content of the research programme of the research group Government & Law. This proposal of maximum 5 pages includes the following headings: ‘state of the art’, ‘research objectives’, ‘methodology’ and ‘bibliography’.
• The prior conditions are conditions of admissibility.
• You can demonstrate excellent study results, especially in the area of the law of the European Union. You substantiate this with a detailed overview of your study results (see 'Want to apply?').
• You have an adequate knowledge of Dutch (language for educational support and…