Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies (BGTS) Doctoral Programme Freie Universität Berlin in Germany

The European University Institute (EUI) is inviting applications for its Doctoral Programme in Law , starting on 1 September 2027. The programme is residential and based at Villa Salviati in Fiesole, Italy. The Department of Law offers PhD opportunities focused on the challenges facing European law, public international law and private law, with research spanning social, cultural, political and economic topics. Its interdisciplinary environment combines close supervision, open seminars, active w...

Two PhD / doctoral researcher positions are open in the newly established Max Planck Research Group “Constellations of Global (Dis)Ordering” (DISORDER) at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany . The group, headed by Dr. Gordon Friedrichs , studies how global order is transformed as states—especially great and middle powers—advance competing visions of order through international institutions, institutional redesign, ad hoc arrangements, ...

Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) is advertising a 12-month full-time postdoc position at its ScienceCampus in Regensburg. The role is designed to support an independent research project that can later be used for applications to postdoc positions or third-party funding. Researchers are invited to propose projects in the thematic areas of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America - Regensburg : (In-)Security and Sovereignty , Translation of Knowledge and Cultures...

Baltic Peripeties is an interdisciplinary International Research Training Group hosted by the University of Greifswald’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities in trinational cooperation with the University of Tartu and NTNU Trondheim. The programme explores narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes around the Baltic region. It welcomes doctoral projects that define a distinctive research focus while contributing to the programme’s broader intellectual framework. Doctoral research may be ...

The Doctoral Programme in Governance at the Hertie School offers PhD candidates the chance to pursue doctoral research in the social sciences within an international and multidisciplinary environment in Berlin. The programme is designed for researchers working on today’s social, political, legal, and economic challenges, with support from distinguished scholars and a vibrant research community. PhD researchers benefit from rigorous academic training, close supervision, and institutional support,...