Call for Applications: for Postdoctoral position in Law and Humanities at Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
The Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, is seeking applications for one postdoctoral candidate as part of the interdisciplinary project “Home in Crisis” funded under a joint call “Crisis – Perspectives from the Humanities” launched by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) and the Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe (CHANSE). The position will be supervised by Associate Professor Miriam Cullen, and co-supervised by Associate Prof. Dina Lupin (University of Southampton).
The position is available from 1 July 2025 for two years, full-time.
About the position
The postdoc will examine how the practices and resistance of those affected by climate crisis at “home” can shape law and legal processes. The postdoc will both support the work of the investigators and will design their own project that builds on the Empatheatre methodology to uncover and develop creative practices that are themselves processes of law-making and that can resist law’s injustices, including through the creation of legal outputs (which could be, among other things, reimagined case summaries, innovations for legislative drafting, and customary approaches to regulation).
With the support of their supervisors, the postdoc will hold a focus group in Denmark in 2025/2026 and be involved in the organization of a workshop in the UK in the beginning of 2027, as well as participate in processes of theatre-making in South Africa. The postdoc will contribute to at least two scholarly outputs, one broadly centred on approaches to legal reform rooted in the idea of arts-based retaking and making of law’s objects. The other examining the legal dimensions of home which are often overlooked in humanities scholarship, and, potentially, the implications of this for ideas of self, memory, and identity.
The position involves travel, including to South Africa and periods of time in remote parts of the country alongside Empatheatre. In addition, the postdoc will spend time at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom for a period to be determined.
It is a part of employment to contribute to teaching, ideally within subjects offered at the Faculty of Law. Applicants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the faculty’s research areas and education programmes by visiting the Faculty’s website: www.jura.ku.dk.
The Faculty actively supports the effort to learn Danish.
Application procedure
Upload letter of motivation, appendices and the research publications electronically using the link below. We advise you to have the above-mentioned documents ready before you begin to complete the online application. Again, it is essential that all required documents are enclosed.
Applications must be addressed to the Associate Dean of Research and uploaded electronically.
An automatically generated message is sent out acknowledging receipt of the uploaded application.
Applicants will be kept informed about the process of the application procedure on a regular basis via email.
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