VACANCY: Five 4-year doctoral scholarships available a.y. 2025-2026 (Napoli: Scuola Superiore Meridionale; DEADLINE 27 AUG 2025)

 

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Ph.D. Program in Global History and Governance

Five 4-year doctoral scholarships available at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli (Italy), a.y. 2025-2026

The Scuola Superiore Meridionale (SSM) in Naples, in partnership with the Università di Napoli Federico II, invites applications for five fully funded scholarships in the PhD program in Global History and Governance for the academic year 2025-2026.

The Program: The PhD in Global History and Governance program consists of an advanced course of study and research at the end of which the student defends a dissertation based on original and independent scientific work. The course offers an educational program based on a multidisciplinary approach centered on history and law, but it is open to contributions from other disciplines.

The Ph.D. program in Global History and Governance is aimed at highly motivated students with a solid personal background and multiple language skills.

The program focuses on the comparisons, connections, and processes of globalization that have characterized different areas of the planet between the 16th and 20th centuries. It does so by concentrating on the relational dimension of historical processes, legal regimes, and the organization of power; on the interconnections between economic, political, legal, cultural, and social factors; and on the circulation, exchange, and interconnection of ideas, persons, institutions, legal cultures, political models, concepts, rights, and goods on a global scale.

Program coordinator: Prof. Daniela Luigia Caglioti

Funding amount: Annual stipend of € 19,000.00; 50% increase of the scholarship for research abroad for up to 12 months; up to 20% of the scholarship in research funds per year; no tuition fees.

Starting date: November 2, 2025

Admission requirements: Candidates must possess an MA/MS degree, an excellent command of English, and possibly a second language other than their mother tongue. They must present a personal statement, a research proposal on a subject relevant to the PhD program, and a review/discussion of a text that particularly inspired applicants in the choice to pursue their studies and in the conception and writing of the proposal itself.

Application deadline: August 27, 2025, 2:00 pm (CET), only via the online system.

Deadline for the submission of recommendation letters: August 29, 2025, 2:00 pm (CET)

 

Please visit the SSM website for full details of the funding of the award, eligibility, and how to apply: https://www.ssmeridionale.it/avcp/bando-di-concorso-xli-ciclo-dottorato-di-ricerca-della-scuola-superiore-meridionale/.

For further information, please write to ghg@ssmeridionale.it

SCHOLARSHIPS: Visiting Researchers 2025-2026 (Department "Historical Regimes of Normativity", Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) (DEADLINE 30 AUG 2024)

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The Department Historical Regimes of Normativity (Prof. dr. Thomas Duve) will award scholarships for research stays of three or six months, starting on 1 April 2025 / 1 July 2025 / 1 October 2025 / 5 January 2026 for PhD students, post-doctoral and senior researchers. Deadline 30 August 2024.

More information here.

Please ensure that your application reaches us at least four months before your intended research stay. Submit your complete application via our online application system.

JOBS: PhD and Postdoc Scholarships, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main (DEADLINE 31 MAY 2019)

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Every year we welcome numerous researchers and scholarship holders from all over the world who come to Frankfurt in order to get in touch with other researchers in a productive working atmosphere and to conduct research in our library with its many special collections.

The MPIeR awards several fellowships for a research stay at the Institute in 2020.

For 2020 the main areas of research pursued at the Institute are:

Department I – Professor Stefan Vogenauer

• Legal transfer in the common law world
• History of European Union Law
• Fundamental issues concerning legal reception

Department II – Professor Thomas Duve

• History of legal historiography: traditions of writing legal history
• Law and diversity: legal historical perspectives
• Glocalicing normativities in Iberian Imperial territories (15th – 19th century)

Deadline for applications is May 31st 2019.

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SCHOLARSHIP: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History – The Doucet Scholarship (DEADLINE: 15 September 2018)

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Via the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, please find below a call for the second call for applications for the Doucet Scholarship, aimed particularly at young researchers working on the history of early modern law in the Hispanic-American sphere.

The Doucet Collection

The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History was able to substantially expand the collection of its library in the area of the history of derecho indiano, thanks to the integration in 2015 of approximately 4,800 titles belonging to the collection of the legal historians Lourdes Lascurain de Doucet and Gaston Doucet. The collection contains editions of both historical and fundamental legal-historical sources, as well as scientific research on the history of modern early law, covering the entire Hispanic-American sphere (including the Philippine Islands) up to the time of independence. The Doucet Library has more than 600 works on history in general, over 1,700 titles on New Spain, more than 800 works on the River Plate and another 600 on Peru and Alto Peru, as well as many other books on the Antilles, Florida, Yucatan, Chile, the Philippines, Venezuela, New Granada and Paraguay. To consult the titles that make up the Collection, you can access the catalogue of the institute's library and enter "Provenienz Doucet" in the basic search field of the Opac:https://sunrise.rg.mpg.de/webOPAC

The Doucet Scholarship

In order to facilitate access to the collection for young researchers from outside Frankfurt, especially from Latin America, who are interested in using this important collection, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History provides an annual scholarship for a three-month research stay at the Institute.

Due to the large number of interesting applications that the Institute received in the first call, the selection of the first fellows has proved extremely difficult. For this reason, the award went in the first year to two young researchers: Marcela Saenz Castro (UBA) and Cristian Miguel Poczynok (UBA). The research projects were devoted to indigenous claims through trips to the Royal Audience of Buenos Aires at the end of colonial times (Saenz Castro) and to land rights in Latin America between the 18th and 19th centuries (Poczynok) (see the report on his stay).

Call 2019

The second call for applications for the "Doucet Scholarship” is open and the deadline for sending applications for a stay from January to March 2019 (02.01-29.03.2019) is 15 September 2018. Specifically, the financial support consists of: 44 € per day, for a maximum of 90 days; reimbursement of the airfare (up to 1000 € for transatlantic flights, 500 € for flights within Europe). There is also the possibility of renting a room in the Institute's residences (available for full months and costs approx. 650 € per month).

Young researchers may submit proposals on the history of colonial law, directly related to the monographs and editions of sources that make up the Doucet Collection.

Applications (CV, project description and motivation letter regarding the use of the Doucet Collection) are to be submitted in Spanish or English by 15 September 2018, addressed to Prof. Thomas Duve, at the following e-mail address: sekduve@rg.mpg.de

SCHOLARSHIP: Cromwell Fellowships (William Nelson Cromwell Foundation) (DEADLINE 6 JUL 2018)

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We have the following announcement from H-Law:

In 2018, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation will make available a number of $5,000 fellowship awards to support research and writing in American legal history by early-career scholars. Early career generally includes those researching or writing a PhD dissertation (or equivalent project) and recent recipients of a graduate degree working on their first major monograph or research project. The number of awards made is at the discretion of the Foundation. In the past several years, the trustees of the Foundation have made five to nine awards. Scholars who are not at the early stages of their careers may seek research grants directly from the Foundation.
The Committee for Research Fellowships and Awards of the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) reviews the applications and makes recommendations to the Foundation. (The Cromwell Foundation was established in 1930 to promote and encourage scholarship in legal history, particularly in the colonial and early national periods of the United States. The Foundation has supported the publication of legal records as well as historical monographs.)
Applicants should submit a description of their proposed project (double-spaced, maximum 6 pages including notes; include a working title), a budget, a timeline, and a short c.v. (no longer than 3 pages). The budget and timeline can be part of the Project Description or separate. (There is no application form.) Two letters of recommendation from academic referees should be sent directly to the Selection Committee via email attachment, preferably as .pdf files. Applications must be submitted electronically (preferably in one .pdf file) no later than midnight July 6, 2018.

• Your application should make clear the relevance of law to your project. The most successful applicants demonstrate how law (broadly construed) is at the center of their projects, and how their research will tell us something new about law.

• Your proposal should engage with relevant scholarship in the field. While this discussion can be brief, the most successful applicants explain how their projects tell us something new.

• Your application should have a clear budget that is specific about how and where you plan to spend research funds.

• You will receive a confirmation email within a few days of submitting your application; if you do not receive such an email, please follow up.

Please send all materials to the Selection Committee at : cromwell@aslh.netSuccessful applicants will be notified by early November. An announcement of the awards will also be made at the annual meeting of the American Society of Legal History.
Members of the Committee for Research Fellowships and Awards, 2018 Serena Mayeri (2016), Chair, University of Pennsylvania <email>
Leonardo Barbosa (2015), CEFOR/Câmara dos Deputados, Brazil <email>
Sandra VanBurkleo (2015), Wayne State University <email>
Kenneth Mack (2016), Harvard University <email>
Katherine Turk (2016), University of North Carolina <email>
Tracy Steffes (2017), Brown University <email>

SCHOLARSHIP: Lourdes Lascurain de Doucet & Gaston Ducet Library (DEADLINE 15 SEP 2017)

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The MPI for European Legal History has a scholarship available to work on the library of Lourdes Lascurain de Doucet and Gaston Doucet. The scholarship supports a stay in Frankfurt for scientific research related to the library collection, starting between January and March 2018, for maximum 90 days (lump sum of € 44/day). Travel costs will be reimbursed. An appartment at the Institute can be rented at about € 650/month.

The scholarship is specifically directed at scholars who do not reside in Frankfurt, or come from Latin America.

Information concerning the application (in Spanish):

Para facilitar el acceso a la colección a jóvenes investigadoras e investigadores no residentes en Frankfurt, especialmente provenientes de América Latina, interesados en hacer uso de este importante fondo, el Instituto Max Planck para la Historia del Derecho Europeo otorga anualmente un subsidio para una estancia de investigación durante un periodo de 3 meses en el Instituto. La primera convocatoria de la “Beca Doucet” se encuentra abierta y el plazo para el envío de las aplicaciones es el día Viernes 15 de Septiembre de 2017, para una estancia de Enero a Marzo de 2018 (02.01-30.03.18). Concretamente, el apoyo consta de: 44 € diarios, por un máximo de 90 días; reembolso del tiquete aéreo (hasta 1000 € para vuelos trasatlánticos, 500 € para vuelos desde Europa). Además existe la posibilidad de alquilar una habitación en las residencias del Instituto (disponible para meses completos y costos approx. 650 € por mes). Pueden presentarse jóvenes investigadores que presenten propuestas sobre la historia del derecho colonial, directamente relacionados con las monografías y ediciones de fuentes que conforman el Fondo Doucet. Para consultar los títulos que conforman el Fondo, puede acceder al catálogo de la biblioteca del instituto e ingresar “Provenienz Doucet” en el campo de búsqueda básica del Opac: https://sunrise.rg.mpg.de/webOPAC Las aplicaciones (CV, descripción del proyecto y carta de motivación en relación al uso del Fondo Doucet) se recibirán hasta el 15 de Septiembre 2017, dirigidas al Prof. Thomas Duve, al correo electrónico: sekduve@rg.mpg.de.

More information here.

SCHOLARSHIP: Postgraduate Visiting Researcher in Roman law or Legal History at the University of Glasgow (DEADLINE 10 FEB 2017)

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H-Law has the following announcement by prof. E. Metzger:

The University of Glasgow School of Law invites applications from PhD students in Roman law/legal history for the post of Alan Rodger Postgraduate Visiting Researcher, to be held during the 2017/18 academic year. The selected candidate will spend a term in Glasgow and receive a £2,000 award for support. The deadline for applications is 10 February 2017. Full details are available from its website. 

The post was established in memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (1944-2011), Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and scholar of Roman law and legal history.

NOTICE: Phd Studentship in the area of Historical Criminology (Leeds, 2015)

WHAT:  Phd Studentship in the area of Historical Criminology

WHERE: School of Law at the University of Leeds

WHEN: 2015

The School of Law at the University of Leeds is offering fully funded PhD studentships in the area of historical criminology. Further information is available at the link below. People interested in applying are encouraged to contact Dr Henry Yeomans to discuss this further (h.p.yeomans@leeds.ac.uk). 




http://www.law.leeds.ac.uk/postgraduates/research-postgraduates/funding-scholarships

SCHOLARSHIP: Two more post-doctoral fellowships in Paris (IFER/Fernand Braudel incoming programme) DEADLINE 30 SEPTEMBER

In the same category as the previous post, calenda.org reports two more post-doctoral one year positions in the most beautiful city on earth:

Argument

Two post-doc fellowships are offered at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris in connection with the Fernand Braudel incoming program.

These research stays are designed to enable researchers :

• to carry out a research project in a host laboratory
• to integrate scientific networks in France and other European countries
• to build lasting partnerships between their home institution and the host institution. Applicant’s projects should match the areas of research of these institutions.

All social and human sciences are eligible. An interdisciplinary approach to research topics is encouraged. This programme is open to applicants from all countries, belonging to a foreign research centre, who wish to undertake a research residency in France.

The duration of the fellowship is 9 months (however, the length of the research stay can be adjusted if warranted for scientific reasons). Fellowship holders must start their research stay maximum 6 months after obtaining the grant. 

Guidelines submission

Candidates can apply to general fellowships and specific fellowships, offered by several research institutions and “Laboratories of excellence” (Labex) who are partners of the programme.

Applicants must have a PhD and reside outside France and belong to a non-French research institution (university, academy of sciences, or other research organism).

To apply please contact the Collège d’études mondiales scientific coordination: sara.guindani-riquier@msh-paris.fr; nathanael.cretin@msh-paris.fr

Applications must be submitted electronically via the online application form soon available.

Applications may be completed in French or English

Before September 30, 2014

Online application platform is open from September 1 until September 30, 2014.

Documents required

• Application form (to be completed online).
• Curriculum vitae.
• List of publications.
• Detailed research project proposal (5-8 pages, plus a bibliography of 2 pages maximum).
• Copy of doctoral diploma.
• Summary of applicant’s doctoral dissertation (2 pages maximum)
• Two (2) letters of recommendation from scientific scholars. These may be included in the online application or may be sent directly to one of the following address, by email ifer.incoming@msh-paris.fr; or by post: Fernand Braudel-IFER Fellowship Programme (please specify : incoming/outgoing) ; FMSH, Office 328 ; 190 avenue de France ; 75648 Paris Cedex 13, France.The applicant must tick the appropriate box on the online form indicating that the letters will arrive separately. Please ensure that letters are received before the close of the call for applications.
• Letter of invitation from the director of the institution or research laboratory, agreeing to host the applicant for the duration of the fellowship

Selection process

Selection is based on examination of the application files.

The selection process is competitive.

Each application is evaluated by two independent experts and by a selection
committee

The selection committee is made up of French and foreign experts.

Members of the selection committee choose applicants based on :

• their scientific skills and their academic background
• the appeal, quality and feasibility of their research project
• the complementary fit between their project and research being carried out at the chosen host laboratory.
• the letters of recommendation.

Timeline: 2 calls per year, in March and September.

The selection committee meets in June (for the March call) and in December (for the September call).

Results are announced in July for March Call and in January for September Call.

Legal status and obligations of fellowship recipients

FMSH ensures that fellows can work in an environment that is conducive to making  their research projects a success.

Selected applicants are classified as “FMSH postdoctoral fellows”; this is not an employment contract, but a fellowship that is non-taxable.

Incoming fellows are affiliated with two institutions :

• A host laboratory (in Paris or another city in France), chosen by the fellow according to his/her project. The host laboratory (at a university or attached to the CNRS or an MSH institution belonging to the national MSH network) provides the fellow with the facilities needed to work, while integrating him/her into its teams and assisting him/her with the project.
• At the same time, the fellow benefits from guest research status at FMSH. This status gives the fellow access to all FMSH’s facilities (library, Wi-Fi) and enables him/her to take part in FMSH’s scientific activities. Furthermore, FMSH helps its guest researchers to gain access to other scientific facilities in Paris or elsewhere in France (i.e. research centres, libraries, archives, museums, etc.). FMSH pays the deductibles for private medical/accident insurance for incoming fellows. Selected applicants are considered as “FMSH postdoctoral fellows”. This is not an employment contract, but a fellowship that is non-taxable. The amount of the fellowship is €2,000 (euros) per month.

This fellowship is awarded subject to the following conditions:

• The recipient must be present at the host laboratory throughout the length of the fellowship.
• The fellow must inform FMSH if, for any reason (i.e. illness, inability to enter or return to the host country, professional reasons, etc.), his/her stay is interrupted.
• The fellow must submit a research report (3 pages) and a Working Paper (WP) at the end of the stay (following FMSH’s procedure for the publication of Working Papers and Position Papers).
• The fellow must mention the support received from FMSH and the European Commission – Action Marie Curie COFUND in any and all publications that result from research carried out as part of this programme.
• The fellow commits to respect the European charter for researchers (http://ec.europa.eu/eracareers/pdf/am509774CEE_EN_E4.pdf)

SCHOLARSHIP: Two post-doctoral positions funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung at the Collège d'Études Mondiales (Paris). DEADLINE: 15 SEPTEMBER

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Calenda.org reports that the Gerda Henkel Stiftung provides for two post-doctoral scholarships of 12 months in Paris, for two young researchers living outside of France.

Conditions:

As part of the partnership between the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and the Collège d’études mondiales, two post-doctoral grants will be awarded, for a period of 12 months, to two young researchers living outside of France.

Annonce

Argument

The Collège d’études mondiales is a center of exchange and reflexion for researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The institution faces head-on the methodological, epistemological and conceptual changes demanded of those who interpret contemporary phenomena.
These post-doctoral researchers will be received by one of the Chairs or one of the research initiatives at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris
Candidates’ research projects must be devoted to one of the following two research areas :

Social progress and global justice

Relevant disciplines : philosophy, political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, history or philosophy of law, history or philosophy of economics.

Images, bodies and techniques in the global era

Relevant disciplines : history of art, aesthetics, philosophy, political science, anthropology, anthropology or sociology of medicine.

Funding

This post-doctoral grant is worth 2,000€ per month. Travel expenses from home countries to Paris will be taken care of by the institution. The post-doctoral researchers are responsible for the costs of medical insurance.

Qualifications for admission

The admissions process for candidates will focus on the quality of the their scientific backgrounds as well as their post-doctoral projects and their integration into the research conducted at the Collège d’études mondiales.
The conditions for eligibility are the following:

• Candidates must hold a PhD by the date that applications are due, having presented a thesis.
• Candidates must have lived in France for less than twelve months in the last three years.
• Candidates may submit their applications only within the first six years after the presentation of their theses.
• Candidates should be fluent in French.

The application should include (in English or French):

• Doctorate degree (PhD).
• Candidate’s Curriculum Vitae and publications.
• A research project with a bibliography of main works cited (project + bibliography no more than 5 pages).
• 2 Letters of Recommendation
• 1 Welcome letter from one of the Chairholders or associated researchers at the Collège d’études mondiales

Without exception, applications must be submitted via email to the scientific coordination at the Collège d’études mondiales :

• Sara Guindani-Riquier: sara.guindani-riquier@msh-paris.fr
• Nathanaël Cretin: nathanael.cretin@msh-paris.fr

before September 15th, 2014.

REMINDER: PhD SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE, SCHOOL OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, Ireland (Limerick, 13 June 2014)

SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE APPROACHING!

If anyone is interested in using these scholarships for research in comparative law, legal history, legal philosophy, etc, please contact Seán Patrick Donlan (sean.donlan@ul.ie) immediately. 

The deadline is Friday 13 June 2014

See http://www.ul.ie/law/postgrad-course/test for additional information.

SCHOLARSHIP: PhD Studentship - The History of Ideas about Law and Society in a Global Context

The Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC), part of the School of Law at Queen Mary - University of London:

is offering a PhD Studentship to fund a doctoral student to conduct research in the area of the history of ideas about law and society in a global context. The CLSGC would welcome applications for this funding award from applicants whose research proposals outline how they aim to investigate the social context in which such ideas are articulated either by individual jurists or groups of jurists.

The research will be conducted at the CLSGC, which was established in the summer of 2013. It is a home for multidisciplinary research into the global dimensions of law and society. At its core, the CLSGC aims to work towards a better theorization of law in its changing social contexts, exploring the challenges posed for this endeavour by law's increasingly important global dimensions. One of the key planks of CLGSC's research program is the historical dimension of the globalisation of law, including the globalisation of ideas about law and society.

The studentships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence. The application process for these awards is highly competitive. Shortlisted candidates will be required to attend an interview.

For additional information see here or here.

PhD in Legal History at the University of Teramo

PhD in History of Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present Times - Università degli Studi di Teramo (Italy).

 Deadline for applications: 15 October 2013.
8 positions available, 4 with scholarship. 

 All information here: http://www.unite.it/UniTE/Engine/RAServeFile.php/f/dottorati/PHD_Program_Call_2013.pdf

DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS: Legal History - The University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen is offering two scholarships in legal history as part of a larger project on authority and texts. The scholarships will pay fees as well as a stipend, and will provide a desk in a dedicated project office. 

Students are invited to submit research proposals on themes of legal authority, textual authority, and governance. How was legal authority derived, conceptualised, and used in the governance of the late medieval and early-modern periods, when ideas on authority were addressed and began to crystallise? How did changing theories of legal authority alter its use by members of the body politic as they participated in, and challenged, royal burghal, university college, and magnate government? Which legal authorities were drawn on by jurists and governing institutions, and how were they used? Did legal authority function differently in the provinces than in jurisdictions which also functioned as seats of national government

Although the focus of the project is these issues in a Scottish context, comparative approaches are welcomed. 

Further information about the project can be found: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/funding/details.php?funding_id=201 or please email adelyn.wilson@abdn.ac.uk 

Deadline for receipt of applications is 8^th March.