Jacques Delors Centre

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PhD stipend | Research Area: European Law and Governance

The Hertie School is offering a three-year scholarship for an exceptional candidate to pursue a full-time PhD in the field of European Law and Governance starting from September 2025. The successful PhD candidate will be affiliated with Hertie School’s Jacques Delors Centre.

The deadline for application is 16 March 2025 11:59 pm CET. 

At the Hertie School, PhD candidates undertake doctoral research in the social sciences in an international and multidisciplinary setting. To find answers to today’s social, political, legal and economic challenges, our doctoral researchers work with distinguished scholars.

The Hertie School in Berlin prepares doctoral candidates for academic careers in leading universities worldwide or as highly-skilled professionals in the government, business, and civil society arenas. Our doctoral education provides rigorous academic training and ample opportunity to engage with international experts and academics in different fields.

The PhD candidate will be affiliated with the Jacques Delors Centre, which combines high-level scientific research on European integration across the social sciences with think tank and policy work. From 2025, the Centre will also host the DFG-funded Research Unit Reconfiguring Europe, composed of legal and political science scholars of European integration of all career levels, providing further opportunities for research exchange.

The Hertie School is part of a vibrant research hub in the heart of Berlin and closely cooperates with leading doctoral programmes in Europe through the EU-funded CIVICA project.  

For Information about the required application documents see here!

For more information about Doctoral Programmes at Hertie School see here.

Qualifications

We invite PhD candidates with exceptionally strong academic track records at undergraduate and master’s level (or equivalent) in law or related disciplines, and with strong demonstrated interest in research on European law.

We welcome research proposals that focus on questions related to European constitutional law broadly understood, including topics on comparative constitutional law, theoretical approaches to European and comparative constitutionalism, as well as proposals focusing on specific issues of substantive or institutional European law.

All methodological approaches, including socio-legal, critical-theoretical, empirical, and doctrinal are welcome.

Candidates will be co-supervised by Professor Mark Dawson and Senior Research Fellow Ana Bobić. Substantive enquiries regarding this stipend may be addressed to the Centre Co-Director, Professor Mark Dawson.

For details on the application process and required documents, please click here.

“I’m a Doctoral Researcher exploring the political distribution of EU funds across regions and thematic priorities. One of my key reasons for choosing to join the Jacques Delors Centre was the opportunity to exchange ideas with different EU scholars”

Romy Hansum - PhD candidate

“I am driving forward the Centre’s work on the regulation of European financial markets. Inspired by our founder Jacques Delors, my goal is to contribute to a European Union that serves all citizens.”

Sebastian Mack - Senior Policy Fellow

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