The Danish Legal Research Education Programme (JurForsk) invites all PhD students within the discipline of law and interdisciplinary legal studies to attend the conference on the Danish PhD programme entitled “Doctoral Education in Law: Perspectives and Challenges”.

The purpose of this conference is to enable you as a PhD student to reflect upon

• how to make your PhD education a success
• how the PhD programme and JurForsk can enhance your future career prospects
• why professional networking with academics, lawyers and non-lawyers can be essential for your future career – and ways to do it

Furthermore, the conference provides an opportunity to discuss how JurForsk can best support the Danish PhD programme.

Background

The Danish PhD programme aims to train PhD students at an international level to undertake research, development and teaching assignments in the private and public sectors, for which a broad knowledge of research is required. Writing your PhD dissertation is the most important aspect of the PhD programme, but during your research education you must also attend courses, acquire teaching experience and participate in other research environments.

The objective of JurForsk is to ensure that the JurForsk participating institutions offer courses, workshops and seminars of a high and international standard.

Since the number of entry level academic positions such as postdoc or assistant professor within the field of law and interdisciplinary legal studies is limited, it is very important that PhD students reflect upon how the PhD programme can enhance their future career – also within other areas than traditional research.

Target group

This conference is aimed at PhD students enrolled at one of the JurForsk participating institutions after November 2014, however, all PhD students are welcome to attend.

A part of the programme aims for PhD students in their final year, and a special track aims for industrial PhD students.

Programme

Conference information

Venue

9 November 2016:

The Danish Parliament (Folketinget), Christiansborg, 1240 Copenhagen K. Further information will be provided.

10 November 2016:

The Danish Parliament (Folketinget), Christiansborg, 1240 Copenhagen K. Further information will be provided.

Visit to the Supreme Court in the evening: Further information will be provided.

Participation requirements

1. Before the course, each PhD student
   
   a.       must make sure that his/her PhD project is correctly listed on www.jurforsk.dk/projekter
             and www.jurforsk.dk/en/projects - and, if not, please submit the form available on this page.
    
   b.      must prepare a poster describing his/her PhD research project and submit it to the organizers.
            (further instructions will follow)

2. No later than 1 week after the course, each PhD student must submit a reflection paper.

ECTS

Participation in the course requires an estimated workload of approximately 55 working hours. Therefore, PhD students participating in the course will be granted 2.0 ECTS for attending the entire conference and completing the written assignments mentioned above. The final granted ECTS value will be set, when the reading list is complete.

Fee

Attending the conference is free of charge for PhD students enrolled at one of the JurForsk participating institutions, and food during the course including dinner on November 9 are free of charge as well.  Participants must arrange and pay their own accommodation though.

Hotel reservation

We encourage all participants to stay at the same hotel, and therefore we have reserved 30 rooms at Mercur Hotel, Vester Farimagsgade 17, DK-1606 København V (just next to Vesterport Station). The conference dinner on the 9^th of November will take place at the hotel. We have made an agreement with the hotel that you can get a room for 1085 DKK per night including breakfast, free wi-fi and all taxes. To get the room at the discounted price you have to reserve the room no later than 15^th of October by sending an e-mail to booking@mercurhotel.dk and refer to reference number 118808. Please indicate if you wish to stay from the 8^th or the 9^th of November in your e-mail.

Entering Christiansborg

Due to security reasons we all have to meet up at the same time, so it is extremely important that you are at the location at the scheduled time. Further information will be provided.

Registration

No later than on 29 October 2016 on https://auws.au.dk/Jurforsk_Conference

Questions

Any questions about the conference may be directed to any member of the JurForsk board http://jurforsk.dk/om-jurforsk/ledelse/.