Legal background (Law Degree), preferably in comparative law; intellectual curiosity.

IUSS mission is to provide advanced education to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as fundamental and applied research in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), and Human, Social and Life Sciences. At IUSS, PhD candidates will find an open multidisciplinary environment offering real opportunities for developing academic and professional tools for facing the challenges arising from increasing complexity and fast changes in the society and the environment. IUSS is always and actively committed towards internationalisation, inclusion and diversity.The selected candidate will join the Legal Science Research Group (LSRG) at IUSS (comprising, among others, Prof. Alberto Monti, Prof. Stefano Moratti e Dr. Lydia Velliscig) and will work in a pluralist and multi-disciplinary academic environment. The LSRG conducts policy-oriented research studies applying the methodologies of comparative law and economic analysis of laws and institutions; in the specific field of climate change, the LRSG collaborates with the IUSS research centre on Climate change impAct studies for RISk MAnagement (CARISMA).