The School of Law at the University of Surrey is offering 2 full-time PhD studentships starting in October 2010.
The 3 year studentships will cover fees* plus a stipend of £12,600 pa.
*Please note that, we welcome applications from outside the EU. However, we can only support fees at the Home/EU rate. Non-EU applicants will be required to make up the difference in fees themselves.
Proposals will be considered, on their individual merits, for any area of law where we can offer supervision. However, we should particularly like to encourage applicants with topics in one of the following areas:
- Bankruptcy law in theory and practice;
- Comparative constitutional law;
- Corruption;
- Discrimination law;
- Environmental Law, including international climate change regulation, water law and policy, transboundary water regulation
- EU law, including any aspect of EU constitutional law, judicial protection in the EU, EU criminal law, External political relations of the EU;
- Intellectual property law, including its relations with other areas such as competition law, contract law, environmental law;
- Public international law, including international criminal law, law of armed conflict;
- Property rights in natural resources, indigenous land rights, co-operative and community resource use;
- Sustainable natural resource governance, including customary legal frameworks
Further information and details on how to apply: http://www2.surrey.ac.uk/law/news/stories/2010/27792_postgraduate_research_studentships_available.htm
The closing date for submissions is 30th June, 2010.
