PhD Researcher, Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society Leiden University in Netherlands

Leiden University’s Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI) is recruiting a PhD Researcher for the Minaret Project, a HORIZON Unit Grant-funded interdisciplinary and transnational research initiative on the interconnection between law, religion, governance, constitutional reform, and post-imperial Islamic legal culture . The advertised PhD project is titled “A Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Culture: Insights from Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and ...

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. This doctoral position is part of the MINARET Doctoral Network and focuses on women’s legal agency in post-imperial Islamic legal cultures across Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa , with specific empirical attention to Tunisia, Lebanon, and Uzbekistan . The project examines how women use Islamic and secular legal frameworks to claim rights, challenge discrimination, and expand access to justice. The successful candidat...

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...

The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the international ENACT project, which investigates how international police cooperation against transnational organised crime is organised in law and how it works in practice. The project uses a comparative design centred on the Netherlands and Norway, allowing the researcher to examine how different institutional and legal positions shape cross-border cooperation. As part of an international research team, the postdoc wi...