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September 8, 2025

**Job Description**
The project, “Cities as breeding grounds: legal change in financial law (ca. 1620-ca. 1750),” seeks a Ph.D. student to analyze the development of rules governing financial instruments (bills of exchange, promissory notes) within the dynamic interactions of financial actors and institutions in major financial centers like London, Amsterdam, and Hamburg. The research will utilize historical sources, including regulations, compilations of local legislation, commentaries, and municipal court rulings, to examine the evolution of banking law.

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Legal Studies
• Criminology
• Financial Law
• Economic Law

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Work Level
Ph.D
Employment Type
Scholarship
Salary
Position Classification: doctoral grant
Details
See Details Location Requirement: Campus-based Brief location description if available, e.g., Campus-based: Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering Campus (Elsene)
School / Department / Center / Lab
• Faculteit Recht en Criminologie • Department Metajuridica
Supervisor Email
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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