**Job Description**
The project “Cities as breeding grounds: legal change in financial law (ca. 1620-ca. 1750)” seeks a PhD student to analyze the development of rules governing financial instruments, such as bills of exchange and promissory notes. The research focuses on the dynamic interactions between financial actors and institutions in three major financial centers: London, Amsterdam, and Hamburg. This involves analyzing sources like regulations, compilations of local legislation, commentaries, and municipal court rulings, and conducting archival research to examine how rules on bills of exchange and banking law developed through interactions between these cities. The research offers connections to contemporary law and provides a foundation for developing expertise in financial and economic law.
**Skills & Abilities**
• Passive knowledge of Latin
• Passive knowledge of German
• Good command of English
• Ability to conduct research both independently and as part of a team
**Experience**
Other:
• Must not have performed any works in the execution of a mandate as an assistant, paid from operating resources, over a total (cumulated) period of more than 12 months.
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