Call for Applications: 3-year Postdoc in Natural Language Processing and Law, University of Copenhagen

3-year Postdoc(s) in Natural Language Processing and Law

Joint position between the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen and the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

We are looking for 1-2 highly motivated postdocs for a 3-year position from 15 June 2025 or as soon as possible hereafter.

About the Project and Research Environment

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are transforming legal research and practice. The Automating Legal Information and Knowledge Extraction (ALIKE) project investigates how AI can be used to extract, represent, and generate valid legal statements from sources of law, such as legislation and court decisions. The project aims to develop AI-driven legal text generation models, ensuring their outputs are both legally valid and explainable. Key research areas include legal NLP, knowledge representation, computational legal reasoning, and network analysis of legal sources. The project is highly interdisciplinary, integrating insights from computer science, law, and artificial intelligence.

Required qualifications:

PhD in computer science, computational linguistics, AI, legal informatics, or a related field (or expected to obtain one before the start date)
Documented experience with natural language processing and/or machine learning (e.g., through first/co-authored publications)
Demonstrated interest in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of AI and law
Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team
Proficiency in written and spoken English

Desirable qualifications:

Experience working with legal or other domain-specific text corpora
Knowledge of transformer models (e.g., BERT, GPT) or representation learning
Familiarity with network analysis or graph neural networks

Application procedure
Your online application must be submitted in English by clicking ‘Apply now’ below. Furthermore, your application must include the following documents/attachments – all in PDF format:

Motivated letter of application (max. one page).
CV incl. education, work/research experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position.
A certified/signed copy of a) PhD certificate and b) Master of Science certificate. If the PhD is not completed, a written statement from the supervisor will do.
List of publications.
Research plan – description of current and future research plans
Copies of up to three peer-reviewed publications that are particularly relevant to the position (as separate files)

Deadline for applications: 7 April 2025, 23.59pm CET

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

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