Working at the UvA
Join our team
We are looking for a motivated Assistant Professor in the field of empirical legal studies, law & finance, and law & economics to join our interdisciplinary research group. These fields are viewed as methodological approaches and we welcome a broad range of substantive research focuses. In particular, we are looking for a junior candidate with an outstanding research agenda.
Working at the UvA
Join our team
We are looking for a motivated Assistant Professor in the field of empirical legal studies, law & finance, and law & economics to join our interdisciplinary research group. These fields are viewed as methodological approaches and we welcome a broad range of substantive research focuses. In particular, we are looking for a junior candidate with an outstanding research agenda.
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Your tasks
- Cutting edge research, publications and participation in workshops and conferences in the field of empirical legal studies and/or law & finance and/or law & economics. Active contribution to the research community of the Faculty, connection across faculties and disciplines, and active participation in the seminar series and other research activities of the ACLE.
- Teaching courses at bachelor and master level in the minor in Law & Economics, the minor in FinTech Law and Policy and the LLM in Law & Finance, PPLE, AUC or other BA and LLM or MA programs within the Amsterdam Law School or the Faculty of Economics and Business (not all of them, of course). Teaching includes some thesis supervision. Most of the courses we teach are interdisciplinary. The faculty regulations require new hires to follow a qualifying course for lecturers, which you will be expected to take.
- A share of administrative tasks, which we try to run as efficiently as possible.
Required qualifications
- A PhD in Law or related subjects with a focus on one or more of the following fields: empirical legal studies, law & finance, and law & economics. We intend these fields to be methodological approaches and we welcome a broad range of substantive research focuses.
- Proven, high-quality interdisciplinary research output and exciting new projects.
- Teaching experience and excellent teaching evaluations are appreciated, but we also encourage junior candidates without teaching experience to apply.
- Team player, generous and friendly colleague, active seminar participant. English proficiency. Knowledge of Dutch not required for the application, but learning Dutch will be encouraged in the medium term.
This is what we offer
We offer a full time (38 hours per week) tenure-track contract starting from 1 September 2025 for the duration of 6 years, subject to periodic evaluations and tenure review in the 5th year. The contract becomes permanent if the candidate passes the tenure review.
Your salary, depending on your relevant experience on commencement of the employment contract, ranges between €4.537 to €6.209 gross per month on the basis of a full working week of 38 hours, and increases automatically every year. This sum does not include the 8% holiday allowance and the 8.3% year-end allowance. The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU) is applicable.
Besides an attractive salary and an inspiring international work environment, our fringe benefits include:
- 232 leave hours per year (at fulltime employment) and extra leave days between Christmas and 1 January;
- 7 weeks of paid birth leave and partially paid parental leave;
- the opportunity for hybrid working and support for your home office;
- a pension with ABP, the pension fund for employees in the government and education sectors, to which UvA contributes two thirds.
Want to know more about our organisation? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam.
All about this vacancy
Your tasks
- Cutting edge research, publications and participation in workshops and conferences in the field of empirical legal studies and/or law & finance and/or law & economics. Active contribution to the research community of the Faculty, connection across faculties and disciplines, and active participation in the seminar series and other research activities of the ACLE.
- Teaching courses at bachelor and master level in the minor in Law & Economics, the minor in FinTech Law and Policy and the LLM in Law & Finance, PPLE, AUC or other BA and LLM or MA programs within the Amsterdam Law School or the Faculty of Economics and Business (not all of them, of course). Teaching includes some thesis supervision. Most of the courses we teach are interdisciplinary. The faculty regulations require new hires to follow a qualifying course for lecturers, which you will be expected to take.
- A share of administrative tasks, which we try to run as efficiently as possible.
Required qualifications
- A PhD in Law or related subjects with a focus on one or more of the following fields: empirical legal studies, law & finance, and law & economics. We intend these fields to be methodological approaches and we welcome a broad range of substantive research focuses.
- Proven, high-quality interdisciplinary research output and exciting new projects.
- Teaching experience and excellent teaching evaluations are appreciated, but we also encourage junior candidates without teaching experience to apply.
- Team player, generous and friendly colleague, active seminar participant. English proficiency. Knowledge of Dutch not required for the application, but learning Dutch will be encouraged in the medium term.
This is what we offer
We offer a full time (38 hours per week) tenure-track contract starting from 1 September 2025 for the duration of 6 years, subject to periodic evaluations and tenure review in the 5th year. The contract becomes permanent if the candidate passes the tenure review.
Your salary, depending on your relevant experience on commencement of the employment contract, ranges between €4.537 to €6.209 gross per month on the basis of a full working week of 38 hours, and increases automatically every year. This sum does not include the 8% holiday allowance and the 8.3% year-end allowance. The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU) is applicable.
Besides an attractive salary and an inspiring international work environment, our fringe benefits include:
- 232 leave hours per year (at fulltime employment) and extra leave days between Christmas and 1 January;
- 7 weeks of paid birth leave and partially paid parental leave;
- the opportunity for hybrid working and support for your home office;
- a pension with ABP, the pension fund for employees in the government and education sectors, to which UvA contributes two thirds.
Want to know more about our organisation? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam.
Your place at the UvA
Where you will work
You will join a vibrant research community and successful educational programmes. You will form part of the section Law and Economics (which deals with the teaching and admin side of your job) and of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE). The ACLE has been at the frontier of interdisciplinary research in empirical legal studies, law & finance and law & economics for 20 years. Our members publish in the top EU and US journals (see the ACLE WP series on SSRN) and lead European and international research projects combining legal studies with methods from the social and computational sciences. The ACLE has an active research community of over 50 research members and research associates, an internationally-renown seminar, workshop and conference series.
The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the broadest spectrum of degree programmes. It is an intellectual hub with 42,000 students, 6,000 employees and 3,000 doctoral students who are all committed to a culture of inquiring minds. You will be employed by the Amsterdam Law School, but we work in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics and Business, and to a more limited extent, with the Faculty of Science.
The faculty’s relevant graduate and postgraduate programs draw a diverse, interesting and interested student population from around the world. The section Law & Economics runs three programs: the minor in Law & Economics, the new minor in FinTech Law and Policy, and the Master in Law & Finance, and teaches other undergraduate and graduate courses in the Law School, the Faculty of Economics and Business, the Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics College (PPLE), the Amsterdam University College (AUC), and the Tinbergen Institute’s MPhil and PhD program in economics, econometrics and finance.
Both the Law and Economics section and the ACLE have excellent support personnel.
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Your place at the UvA
This is where you will be working
Where you will work
You will join a vibrant research community and successful educational programmes. You will form part of the section Law and Economics (which deals with the teaching and admin side of your job) and of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE). The ACLE has been at the frontier of interdisciplinary research in empirical legal studies, law & finance and law & economics for 20 years. Our members publish in the top EU and US journals (see the ACLE WP series on SSRN) and lead European and international research projects combining legal studies with methods from the social and computational sciences. The ACLE has an active research community of over 50 research members and research associates, an internationally-renown seminar, workshop and conference series.
The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the broadest spectrum of degree programmes. It is an intellectual hub with 42,000 students, 6,000 employees and 3,000 doctoral students who are all committed to a culture of inquiring minds. You will be employed by the Amsterdam Law School, but we work in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics and Business, and to a more limited extent, with the Faculty of Science.
The faculty’s relevant graduate and postgraduate programs draw a diverse, interesting and interested student population from around the world. The section Law & Economics runs three programs: the minor in Law & Economics, the new minor in FinTech Law and Policy, and the Master in Law & Finance, and teaches other undergraduate and graduate courses in the Law School, the Faculty of Economics and Business, the Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics College (PPLE), the Amsterdam University College (AUC), and the Tinbergen Institute’s MPhil and PhD program in economics, econometrics and finance.
Both the Law and Economics section and the ACLE have excellent support personnel.
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Important to know
Your application & contact
If you have any questions about the position, please contact by mail:
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
Professor of Law and Economics
Job application documents:
- A statement of your research interests and plans, with a short motivation for your application (max 3 pages in total);
- CV with full list of publications;
- At most 3 recently written articles or working papers in English; if possible at least one should be single-author;
- A list of courses taught and teaching evaluations, where available;
- Two letters of recommendation to be sent directly by the recommending persons (thus, not by the applicant) to [email protected] by the deadline for the application.
You can apply online via the red button. We will accept applications until 15 March 2025.
Following the deadline there will be 1 or 2 rounds of interviews in person or online.
Please note that it is only possible to upload two documents, therefore please combine the required files in preferably one or at most two PDF documents.
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Important to know
Your application & contact
If you have any questions about the position, please contact by mail:
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
Professor of Law and Economics
Job application documents:
- A statement of your research interests and plans, with a short motivation for your application (max 3 pages in total);
- CV with full list of publications;
- At most 3 recently written articles or working papers in English; if possible at least one should be single-author;
- A list of courses taught and teaching evaluations, where available;
- Two letters of recommendation to be sent directly by the recommending persons (thus, not by the applicant) to [email protected] by the deadline for the application.
You can apply online via the red button. We will accept applications until 15 March 2025.
Following the deadline there will be 1 or 2 rounds of interviews in person or online.
Please note that it is only possible to upload two documents, therefore please combine the required files in preferably one or at most two PDF documents.
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