Post-Doc Positions Available for 2025 - Three Generations of Digital Human Rights Research Project
Description
We are seeking Post-Doc candidates who have obtained their Ph.D. after 31 January 2020 in Law, Social Science, Humanities or Computer Science, to join a research group focusing on the development of digital human rights. The research is an ERC Advanced Grant (2023-2027).
The position is offered for the period starting on 20 March 2025 and it involves the grant of a post-doctoral fellowship for 6-12 months. The appointment may be extended for an additional period of 6-12 months on the basis of mutual agreement.
The selected post-doc candidate is expected to spend a significant part of the academic year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
The post-doc candidate selected for the position will conduct research under the joint supervision of the PI – Professor Yuval Shany of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the group’s research associates (Dr. Tomer Shadmy and Dr. Tamar Megiddo) and participate in the various academic activities of the group.
Please send your CV and two recommendation letters to 3gdr@mail.huji.ac.il by October 14, 2024.
For any administrative queries, you can contact Mr. Gadi Perl, the group’s research coordinator, at gadi.perl@mail.huji.ac.il.
The position is offered for the period starting on 20 March 2025 and it involves the grant of a post-doctoral fellowship for 6-12 months. The appointment may be extended for an additional period of 6-12 months on the basis of mutual agreement.
The selected post-doc candidate is expected to spend a significant part of the academic year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
The post-doc candidate selected for the position will conduct research under the joint supervision of the PI – Professor Yuval Shany of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the group’s research associates (Dr. Tomer Shadmy and Dr. Tamar Megiddo) and participate in the various academic activities of the group.
Please send your CV and two recommendation letters to 3gdr@mail.huji.ac.il by October 14, 2024.
For any administrative queries, you can contact Mr. Gadi Perl, the group’s research coordinator, at gadi.perl@mail.huji.ac.il.
Additional Information
The research program explores different strategies developed in the digital age within and outside international human rights law to respond to new needs, interests, risks and challenges brought about by transition of inter-personal interactions, social activities and regulatory schemes from offline to online environments. It investigates the development in recent years of three generations of digital human rights: adaptation of existing rights and their manner of application to online environments (e.g., online privacy), the creation of new digital rights (e.g., right to access the Internet) and the introduction of new rights and duty holders (e.g., virtual persons and online platforms exercising quasi-sovereign power), as well as the development of alternative protection avenues based on private ordering, including rights by design and community standards, Internet governance and multi-stakeholder arrangements.