Job description

The position is fixed term for four years and with 75% part of the project: “Courts as Governors in the Internal Market? – the interaction between judicial control and competence” that is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Research Unit “Reconfiguring Europe between competence and control” (speaker: Prof. Dr. Markus Jachtenfuchs, Hertie School). This research group brings together over 20 leading senior and junior scholars working on European integration across 5 institutions, with the Hertie School as the project coordinator (more on the project can be found at https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/research/reconfiguring-europe).

In addition, there are academic services in teaching currently amounting to 1 SWS (including teaching specialist knowledge and practical skills, instruction in the application of scientific methods in the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes to the extent of the applicable LVNV, teaching export).

Project Description:

Member state governments exercise considerable control over the delegation of competence to the European Union (EU). In addition, the EU relies on member state administrations to implement its policies. This gives Member States (MS) further leeway in interpreting and implementing EU competences. However, MS cannot simply ignore their obligations under European law. Through infringement proceedings before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) or through national courts and possible preliminary ruling proceedings, actors can sue for compliance with European law obligations. The project examines this judicial control of Member States' implementation of EU law using the example of case studies on three policies of the internal market (social security coordination, railroad policy and services directive) in Germany and France as well as selected other MS. It asks when actors activate judicial control and what difference this makes with respect to the implementation and enforcement of EU law, but also for the design of EU law obligations (‘competence’) themselves.

Your responsibilities:

• Independent work on research topics of the project.
• Close collaboration with other members of the team, in particular for interviews and data collection as well as for cross-cutting work and project publications. Continuous interaction with other member of the research unit at InIIS, in Berlin, Zurich, and Leipzig.
• The position requires some traveling.
• Research and teaching one (2 hrs-course p.a.) activities are to be provided in accordance with § 23a BremHG.

Requirements

• Completed scientific university degree (Master /Uni-Diploma) in Political Science, or related.
• Completed PhD in Political Science, or related.
• Expertise in policy analysis, qualitative and/or quantitative methods, European integration; basic knowledge of European law.
• Language requirements: English and another European language. Working knowledge of German desirable.

General Information

Open to unconventional approaches in research and teaching, the University of Bremen has retained its character as a place of short distances for people and ideas since its founding in 1971. With a broad range of subjects, we combine exceptional performance and innovative potential. As an ambitious research university, we stand for research-based learning approaches and a pronounced interdisciplinary orientation. We actively pursue international scientific cooperation in a spirit of global partnership.

Today, around 23,000 people learn, teach, research and work on our international campus. In research and teaching, administration and operations, we are firmly committed to the goals of sustainability, climate justice and climate neutrality. Our Bremen spirit is expressed in the courage to dare new things, in supportive cooperation, in respect and appreciation for each other. With our study and research profile and as part of the European YUFE network, we assume social responsibility in the region, in Europe and in the world.

The university is family-friendly, diverse and sees itself as an international university. We therefore welcome all applicants regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

As the University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of female employees in science, women are particularly encouraged to apply.

Disabled applicants will be given priority if their professional and personal qualifications are essentially the same.

Please address queries to:

Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt
Tel.: + 49 421 218 67484
Email: skschmidtprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

Applications including a cover letter explaining your motivation, CV, copies of degree certificates, should be submitted with the reference number A335-24 as a single unencrypted PDF file to fb08.bewerbungprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de or by postal mail to:

Universität Bremen
Fachbereich 8 – Sozialwissenschaften
FB 8/4 – Reference number A335-24
Postfach 33 04 40
28334 Bremen

The application deadline is January 8th, 2025

We kindly ask you to send us only copies (no portfolios) of your application documents, as we cannot return them. They will be destroyed after the selection process has been completed.

Any application costs cannot be reimbursed.