Three PhD Students for a New Project on a Global Constitution

What are you going to do

The PhD positions will focus on innovative and interdisciplinary original research within the disciplines of environmental studies, social and political sciences, international law and the governance of new technologies. The project focuses on designing a Global Constitution. It is based on four methods: the theory on the rule of law and constitutionalism, empirical evidence of what is included in national constitutions, analysis of the new elements that need to be included in a Global Constitution (e.g. global environmental problems; governance of new technologies – block chain, AI, bio-tech; challenges in private and public international law and open science (invitation to actors worldwide to write an essay on what they see is important in a Constitution and become contributing authors). You will be part of this exercise and have expertise in governing new technologies, public private law, or the theory behind constitutionalism,...