Oxford IECL Research
Masterclass for Graduate Students
The Institute for European and Comparative Law at the
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, is introducing a Research Masterclass to
support graduate research students working in the Institute’s fields of
European Law, Comparative Law and Competition Law in September 2023 in Oxford.
What the course offers:
1.
12 small group seminars with leading academics from
Oxford and beyond discussing the methodology of research in European,
Comparative and Competition Law;
2.
Desk-space in the IECL from 4 September to 29 September;
3.
Research opportunities using the University of Oxford’s
library and online resources: online from 1 August to 31 October;
4.
Accommodation available from Corpus Christi College at
preferential rates for 4 to 30 September (£45 pppn);
5.
Dinner in an Oxford College and lunches accompanying some
seminars;
6.
Networking opportunities with current Oxford Graduate
students: you will be paired with an Oxford student in a similar or related
field as well as being able to work with the whole cohort;
7.
A certificate of completion.
Cost
The course costs £750, with accommodation to be paid separately
(College accommodation at a reduced rate is offered but not required) and most
meals are paid separately. We have kept costs down as far as possible and are
not in a position to offer fee waivers or other discounts.
Eligibility
To be eligible you must be a graduate research student in
law working on European Law, Comparative Law and/or Competition Law. Places are
limited.
How to apply
Please send a single document, describing your research
project in no more than 200 words, and a CV, in total not more than 4 sides of
A4 long (font size 12) to Kat Hayward, IECL Administrator, on administrator@iecl.ox.ac.uk as
soon as possible and no later than 4pm BST on 26 June 2023. Decisions will be
taken soon after that. An offer to take part is be conditional on paying the
course fee.
Note
The IECL will issue an invitation letter, but cannot assist
with immigration requirements or travel arrangements. Those are the
responsibility of the attending student.
Further details of the structure of the course are below.
We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford!
Matthew Dyson
Professor of Civil and
Criminal Law
Director of the IECL
The Research Masterclass is designed to give you space to
work on your own research collaboratively and develop your methods further
through structured sessions with leading academics. Those sessions happen three
times a week over the four weeks. Each session will involve the academic
picking a piece of work, set in advance, which the students will have access to
(or a part of it), and discussing the methods used, the decisions made, and the
impact evident, from conception to completion. While all four weeks have that
basic patter, each week has an emphasis. Outside of the seminars, participants
are free to work at their desk in the seminar room, in one of Oxford’s
world-leading libraries or elsewhere.
Week 1. Research Choices: seminars focus on
methodology needed before research begins.
Week 2. Research Execution: seminars focus on case
studies of academics’ work.
Week 3. Research Challenges: seminars focus on
problems researchers have faced.
Week 4. Research Outputs: seminars focus on writing,
and presenting, research.
Academics involved so far
(subject to change)
Prof Matthew Dyson
(Comparative Law)
Prof Ariel Ezrachi
(Competition Law)
Prof Liz Fisher (Comparative
Public Law)
Prof Son Bui (Asian Law)
Dr Johannes Ungerer
(Conflicts of Laws)
Dr Florian Griesl
(Socio-legal studies)
Prof Iyiola Solanke (EU Law)
Prof Stefan Enchelmaier (EU
Law)
Prof Angus Johnston (EU Law)
Prof Sanja Bogojevic (EU Law)
Prof Birke Haecker, Bonn (Comparative
legal history)
Prof Laura Carlson, Stockholm
(Comparative law and equality law)
Dr Maria Salah, Chile (Comparative
law)
Prof Alec Walen, Rutgers (Legal
theory)
The learning outcomes are aimed to support graduate research
students complete their theses:
- Make
progress analysing and clarifying an abstract question, grasping and
critically comparing different approaches to answering it, and developing
an approach of your own;
- Increase
skills in building and taking apart complex arguments for and against a
position;
- where
necessary, be able to put difficult historical texts produced within a
historical context;
- improve
on constructing significant pieces of writing that provide a clear
overview of a subject and a sustained independent argument about it,
presented in a lucid, objective and scholarly manner
- advance
towards excellent oral presentation;
- develop
time management skills; and
- make
more effective use of libraries, information technology and other sources
of information.
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