At the interface of private law, anthropology and empiricismTwo open PhD positions in the research group “Cultural Diversity in Private Law” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
The "Law & Anthropology" department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale) is offering two doctoral positions from April 2024. The positions are assigned to the newly founded Max Planck Research Group of Dr. Mareike Schmidt and will work on the topic of "Cultural Diversity in Private Law". Further information on the research group can be found here.
The project in which the doctoral students will write their theses is entitled "Contract Law's Cultural Embeddedness" and examines the role of cultural diversity in core areas of private law. In particular, the group aims to understand the cultural embeddedness of the application of...