Job Opportunities in Germany

External job advertisement Reg.-no. 3-10574/24-D
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Modern, interconnected, conscious of tradition: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) is the old-
est and largest university in the State of Saxony-Anhalt with a history dating back more than 500 years. Today
more than 20,000 students are enrolled at the university. MLU’s core research areas are in the nanosciences
and bio- sciences, the Enlightenment, as well as in social and cultural research. The university is also home to
a range of small disciplines, some of which can be found nowhere else in Germany. The university has excel-
lent national and international ties, and works closely together with leading research institutes, industry, and
more than 250 universities around the world.
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Faculty of Law and Economics, School of Law, Chair of
German, European and International Public Law, offers a temporary position (up to 36 months) starting on
1 December 2024:
1 x Doctoral candidate (m-f-d)
As part-time employment (65%).
The salary will be up to pay group 13 TV-L (according to the collective wage agreement of the German fed-
eral states), if the personal requirements and tasks are fulfilled.
The position is part of the International Max Planck Research School “Global Multiplicity: A Social Anthropol-
ogy for the Now“ (IMPRS-GM, https://www.imprs-gm.mpg.de), a cooperation between the Max Planck Institute
for Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Leipzig University and FAU Erlangen-Nürn-
berg.
The position is integrated within the research at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Dirk Hanschel at MLU on the topic of en-
vironmental justice and within the IMPRS-GM thematic group “Legal Complexity and Justice” which tackles
complex global challenges such as environmental destruction, trans-border migration or digitalisation of legal
thinking from the perspective of law and anthropology. These challenges can only be addressed through a
multitude of perspectives, which look at the law in its social and cultural context (https://www.imprs-
gm.mpg.de/legal-complexity-and-justice).
Within this framework the Ph D project in the field of law shall take recourse to ethnographic methods and be
expressly designed in an interdisciplinary fashion. A thematic focus on questions of environmental justice, as
they are currently examined at the Chair as well as the Max Planck Fellowship on „Environmental Rights in Cul-
tural Context“ (https://www.eth.mpg.de/5307821/mpfg03) is desirable. A high level of reflection and the open-
ness for collaborative formats are required.
Work Tasks:

• Participation in an intense, structured teaching and work programme of the IMPRS-GM as well as in re-

search at the Chair as part of the Ph D project

• Carrying out Ph D research, including potential fieldwork, supported by the IMPRS-GM

• Administrative work for the Chair

• Teaching duties as based on MLU regulations (average: 2,6 SWS/hours per week per semester)

• Chances for own academic qualification will be provided (Ph D)
  

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Prerequisites:

• Degree in Law qualifying for Ph D study, preferably with an emphasis in the field of public law, in particular

• public international and European law

• Ability/interest to work in a research team and interest in the topic of environmental justice

• Preparedness for a deep immersion into anthropology and the use of ethnographic methods

• in legal resarch

• Excellent proficiency in academic English; for the fulfilment of the teaching requirement knowledge of Ger-

man language is beneficial, but not required.

Applications from severely disabled persons will be given preferential consideration in the case of equal suita-
bility and ability. Women are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants with a graduation not from a German
university must provide a Statement of Comparability for Foreign Higher Education Qualifications from the
Central Office for Foreign Educational Systems (https://www.kmk.org/zab/central-office-for-foreign-education).
If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Dirk Hanschel via e-mail at dirk.hanschel@jura.uni-halle.de
(phone +49- 345 55-23170).
Please submit your application quoting the reg. no. 3-10574/24-D including the following required documents:

• Signed cover letter explaining your interest in and suitability for the collaboration on the research topic of

• environmental justice and within the IMPRS-GM group “ Legal Complexity and Justice”

• Curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, if applicable)

• Proposal for a dissertation project including details about the state of preparation, methodology,

• and a posible timeline, ca. 3-5 pages (excluding references)

• Certificates & transcript of grades

until 18 November, preferrably by e-mail, to Prof. Dr. Dirk Hanschel, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg,
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Juristische und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät,
Lehrstuhl für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Öffentliches Recht, 06099 Halle (Saale), Email:
dirk.hanschel@jura.uni-halle.de.
The call for applications is subject to any budgetary restrictions.
Application costs will not be reimbursed by the Martin Luther University.


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