The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law and Adminstration in Non- Western Countries at Leiden University is looking for a PhD Candidate for a research on conflicts of interest between stakeholders and the relevant property rights regimes in the Mahakan Delta of East Kalimantan related to forestry, shrimp farming and fishing. The research combines legal and anthropological research and is theoretically informed by interdisciplinary theory as developed in the framework of neo-law and development studies.
The aim of the research is to define how and under what conditions law can be made more effective, in particular the elements of the legal system associated wih the rule of law. For more details see the attached research proposal. As you will see, the research will be carried out by a full-time PhD Fellow in Indonesia (the vacant position) and a part-time Post-doc in Leiden (Jaap Timmer).
The PhD Fellow will focus on the main interests of the actors involved in the resource politics of the Mahkan Delta and the potential legal and institutional pitfalls of Integrated Coastal Zone Management under new decentralised structures and policies for the future.
If you are interested in this research please send me an email to Jaap Timmer ( j.timmer@law.leidenuniv.nl ) in which you express why you are interested and what you think you can bring to the project. It is obvious that a good command of English, in particular the skill of (academic) writing in that language, is essential for this research.
Please respond as soon as possible as the Van Vollenhoven Institute would like to commence the selection procedure as soon as possible.
Dr Jaap Timmer
Research Fellow
Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University
PO Box 9520, 2300 RA Leiden,
The Netherlands
j.timmer@law.leidenuniv.nl
