PhD in Sociology of Law: Women's Legal Agency in Central Asia and MENA Lund University in Sweden

PhD opportunity in Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden. This doctoral position is part of the MINARET project and focuses on Islamic ethics, Islamic legal culture, governance reform, and administrative reform in Central Asia , with empirical work in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan . The project asks how religiously informed governance practices and legal strategies may affect accountability, public trust, institutional effectiveness, and political legitimation. The successful candidate will be...

PhD opportunity in Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden. The project is titled Civil Islam and Non-Coercive Governance Across Post-Imperial Islamic Societies in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and North Africa and is part of the MINARET / NORCA research environment at the Sociology of Law Department. The doctoral project examines how civil Islam, legal mobilisation, and faith-based movements can contribute to non-coercive governance and constitutional participation in Tunisia, Indonesia, an...

PhD opportunity in Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden. The project is titled Securitisation of Religion in Hybrid Regimes and focuses on post-imperial Islamic legal cultures, with empirical attention to Uzbekistan and Egypt. The doctoral candidate will study how governments mobilise religious narratives to justify security policies and governance strategies, and how religion becomes embedded in state security frameworks. Research environment and supervision: The successful candidate wil...

PhD Position: Decolonising Reparations at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands . This PhD project asks what reparations for colonialism could look like, with a focus on Indo and Indonesian communities affected by colonial legacies. The research is part of the NWO-funded project Decolonising Reparations: Transforming the Legacies of Colonialism , led by Dr Sanne Weber in the Department of Political Science / Peace and Conflict Studies at the Centre for International Conflict Analysis a...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Law at the Australian National University (ANU) , Canberra, Australia. This is a full-time, fixed-term postdoctoral position (up to 2 years) in the ANU Law School, supporting an ARC Discovery Project titled “Becoming a ‘World Court’? Globalisation and Judicialisation at the International Court of Justice” (2026–2029) . The project focuses on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and its evolving role as the “World Court,” using empirical legal research , sociolegal rese...