Three fully funded PhD positions in Competition Law and AI

Competition agencies now enforce the law with AI. The legal framework has not caught up. Join ATLANTIS, a five-year ERC project at VU Amsterdam, as one of three fully funded PhD candidates to build it.

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Every EU competition agency, and most agencies worldwide, now relies on AI and other computational tools to enforce competition law. The legal framework has not kept pace. ATLANTIS, a five-year project funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant (grant agreement 101228709), builds that framework.

I am Thibault Schrepel, Associate Professor of Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and I am hiring three PhD candidates to join the ATLANTIS team. Two positions are legal-track. One is a cross-project computational position. The positions begin on 1 December 2026, last four years, and are based at the VU Amsterdam Faculty of Law. All ...