Researcher

During the one-year term, Research Fellows are expected to produce at least one substantial research output, such as a working paper, a peer-reviewed article, or an equivalent scholarly publication.

Fellows are also expected to contribute shorter research analysis or commentary to the institute's publication channels, participate in research seminars and Fellows' meetings, contribute to at least one institute conference, workshop, webinar, or other academic event, and engage, where relevant, with collaborative research activities within the institute. Research Fellows may use their institute affiliation for research and academic activities undertaken within the framework of the Programme.

All research produced under institute affiliation is expected to meet appropriate standards of academic quality, independence, and research integrity.

What they ask The Research Fellows Programme welcomes applications from postdoctoral researchers, doctoral researchers at an advanced stage, early-career and established academics, as well as legal practitioners, policymakers, and professionals with equivalent research expertise.

• Clear research interest relevant to the institute's research agenda.
• Ability to contribute independently to an international academic community.
• Ability to work professionally in English.
• No nationality or residence requirement.

Research Areas. Applications are welcomed across the institute's research agenda. Applicants may identify one or two research areas most closely connected to their proposed work:

• Artificial Intelligence, Law & Governance: Legal and institutional responses to artificial intelligence, including AI regulation, algorithmic decision-making, social scoring, generative AI, automated systems, accountability, and the allocation of responsibility.
• Data Law & Digital Governance: Data protection, privacy, data governance, international data transfers, access to and use of data, digital identity, data spaces, and the evolving relationship between individuals, states, and digital markets.
• Digital Sovereignty & Infrastructure: The legal dimensions of digital sovereignty, critical digital infrastructure, cloud computing, computing capacity, telecommunications, technological dependencies, and the changing relationship between sovereignty, jurisdiction, and digital systems.
• Fundamental Rights & the Digital Society: The impact of technological transformation on fundamental rights, including privacy, equality, autonomy, freedom of expression, access to information, non-discrimination, and human dignity.
• Rule of Law, Justice & Legal Institutions: The evolution of courts and legal institutions, judicial independence, access to justice, procedural fairness, and the use of artificial intelligence and automated technologies in judicial and administrative decision-making.
• Platforms, Information & Digital Regulation: Platform governance, online information environments, disinformation, recommender systems, synthetic content, deepfakes, online advertising, and the interaction between technology regulation and democratic institutions.
• Digital Economy, Finance & Emerging Technologies: The legal and regulatory implications of the digital economy, including digital assets, blockchain, digital finance, tokenisation, fintech, and emerging technologies, as well as their interaction with financial regulation, markets, and technological innovation.
• European, International & Comparative Law: Research examining the development and interaction of national, European, and international legal orders, including regulatory convergence and divergence, transnational governance, comparative legal methodology, and the circulation of legal principles and regulatory models.

Practical aspects.

• The fellowship is awarded for an initial period of one year.
• The fellowship is an academic affiliation and is not an employment position.
• Unless otherwise specified for a particular project or activity, the fellowship does not include a salary, stipend, or reimbursement of travel or subsistence expenses.
• The programme operates primarily online.