There are two postdoctoral fellowship opportunities available at Melbourne Law School to commence in 2016: the University of Melbourne’s McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship and the new Melbourne Law School Postdoctoral Fellowship.
The Fellowships are open to recently graduated PhD students of any nationality. Applicants must have been awarded their PhD in or after 1 January 2013.
The deadline for the McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow expression of interest is Friday 31 July 2015. The deadline for Melbourne Law School Postdoctoral Fellowship applications is Sunday 30 August 2015.
Further information about these two opportunities for early career researchers to join Melbourne Law School is available here.
Professor Tarunabh Khaitan is a Professor of Public Law & Legal Theory and the Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law, Oxford. He is also a Professor and Future Fellow at Melbourne Law School. He is the founding General Editor of the Indian Law Review and the founder & Chief Advisor of the Junior Faculty Forum for Indian Law Teachers.
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