Scholarship Opportunities – English Legal History
This blogger is delighted to share the following two calls for application:
EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LEGAL HISTORY
Applications are invited for a scholarship leading to the degree of PhD in the School of Law, University of Adelaide
The scholarship is supported by the Australian Research Council under Discovery Project DP160100265: ‘A New History of Law in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689 – 1760’ (Chief Investigators: Em. Prof Wilfrid Prest and Prof David Lemmings, University of Adelaide, and Dr Mike Macnair, University of Oxford).
The successful candidate will pursue research leading to a PhD on some aspect of the English legal order, c.1689-1760. Prof. Prest is particularly interested in supervising research on case notes and law reporting or another aspect of legal literature during the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However candidates are encouraged to outline (in no more than 250 words) any proposal they may have for a thesis topic related to the overall field of study.
Applicants must be acceptable as candidates for a PhD degree at the University of Adelaide. International candidates are welcome, as are Australian citizens and permanent residents.
The scholarship will be for three years full-time study, with a stipend of $31,288 per annum. It is likely to be tax exempt, subject to Taxation Office approval. Applications close on 31 October 2016.
Enquiries: Prof. Em. Wilfrid Prest, Adelaide Law School Tel +61 (08) 8313 5883
Fax +61(08) 8313 4344
Email: wilfrid.prest@adelaide.edu.au
Application for Admission by domestic students must be submitted using the Online Application Form available at: https://hdrapp.adelaide.edu.au/auth/login
International students should use the Online Application Form available at: https://international-hdr.adelaide.edu.au/login
Please email a summary of your application for admission to Dr. Helen Payne with “Application for Legal History PhD Scholarship” in the subject heading.
You can request a copy of your application summary by emailing scholarships@adelaide.edu.au with the subject heading ‘Request for application summary’.
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Judges and English Law Scholarship
Applications are invited for the following scholarship leading to the degree of PhD in the School of Humanities (History)
The scholarship is supported by the Faculty of Arts (Divisional Scholarship), and is part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, DP160100265: ‘A New History of Law in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689 1760’ (Chief Investigators: Em. Prof Wilfrid Prest and Prof. David Lemmings, University of Adelaide, and Dr Mike Macnair, University of Oxford). The appointee will also be affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
Field of Study: Prof. David Lemmings, who will supervise the successful candidate’s research, is interested in the social and cultural history of law and lawyers, 1690-1780, with a special emphasis on the history of emotions. The student may wish to undertake a comparative study of a group of judges from the period, with the aim of testing, further refining and extending both some of the generalizations advanced in previous research on the early Hanoverian judiciary, and of considering the representation of judges in the emerging print media. Candidates are encouraged to outline (in no more than 250 words) any proposal they may have for a specific thesis topic related to the overall field of study. Stipend: The scholarship will be for three years’ full-time study, with a stipend of $26,288 per annum (2016 rate) tax free for up to three years (indexed annually). It is likely to be tax exempt, subject to Taxation Office approval. The successful candidate will be eligible to apply for a top-up scholarship from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions to the value of $5,000 p.a. stipend and $4,500 p.a. to assist with travel and research expenses. Fax (08) 8313 3443 or Email david.lemmings@adelaide.edu.au
Please email a summary of your application for admission to Dr. Helen Payne (helen.payne@adelaide.edu.au) with ‘Application for Judges and English Law. PhD Scholarship’ in the subject heading. You can request a copy of your application summary by emailing scholarships@adelaide.edu.au with the subject heading ‘Request for application summary’. |