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Työnimike: Tenure track: Digitalisation and Business Law

Työnkuvaus:
Tenure track position in Digitalisation and Business Law

The University of Vaasa is implementing its new research-focused strategy through a 10 million Euro investment programme over the coming 3-year period. We are building up our research capabilities by opening up to 20 new Tenure track positions. Our future-oriented investments create a highly dynamic and supportive research environment. For the successful applicants of these Tenure track positions, we can offer an excellent opportunity to build up a multifaceted academic career.

We are now inviting applications primarily for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure track) in Business Law. However, applicants for the position of Professor may also be considered. The level depends on the merits and career stage of the applicant.

Job abstractJV_description
The position is located in the School of Accounting and Finance and connected to the Digital Economy research platform. The research profile of this position in business law focuses on legal issues in business brought up by digitalisation. The scope of the position covers challenges and opportunities created by digitalisation within the framework of EU-level and national regulation. The research topics may target especially the finance sector (financial law, company law, law of accounting, tax law), changing work life and decision-making in business in general. In addition to direct digital regulation, the research themes may concern digitalisation of business also indirectly.

The position is directed at studying how the regulation of digitalisation can enhance and act as a tool to develop business. The research themes and methods of the applicant should create innovative and interdisciplinary cooperation with the other researchers of the school and the platform. The tenure position is expected to strengthen the key areas of the University and the School.

The expected areas of expertise and interest can include, but are not limited to, the following legal issues in business brought up by digitalisation:
- framework conditions for digital economy
- regulation of digital business, digital organisations and platforms
- EU-level and national regulation related to digital information in business (including, e.g. GDPR, MAR)
- regulation and possibilities of AI, legal aspects of robotisation
- personal data protection and the right to access data, MyData
- regulation and possibilities related to the digitalisation of the finance sector, financial reporting
- digital implications of taxation and tax law
- digitalisation in employment relationships, e-commuting
- digital financing contracts, smart contracts, contract design, legal design

We appreciate if you are already focused on some of the above areas of expertise, but we also hope you would direct your research towards some of them.

The scope of responsibilities will be determined according to the career stage of the successful candidate. The Tenure track position is research-oriented, but the appointed person will also participate in teaching, thesis supervision, and acquiring and managing externally funded research projects. The teaching and supervising duties of the position are related to Business Law and connected to the Bachelor's and Master's Programmes represented in the School and the Doctoral Programme in Business Studies.

The research within the position is connected to the Digital Economy research platform at the University of Vaasa. The Digital Economy is a phenomenon-based, multidisciplinary open research platform focusing its activities on digital technologies and their impacts on businesses, individuals, and organisations. Research within the Digital Economy platform concentrates on digital transformation in industry and society. Topics include various aspects of data - generating, collecting, transferring, storing, analysing, managing, utilising, protecting, and securing. The platform impact will be realised through extensive research collaboration with other research institutes and universities, businesses, and public sector organisations. At the Digital Economy research platform you are at the forefront of the new digital society. For more information:
www.univaasa.fi/fi/sites/digitaleconomy/ (in Finnish)
www.univaasa.fi/en/sites/digitaleconomy/ (in English)

Please see the Particulars of appointment for more detailed information on the tasks, the selection criteria and process for filling the position:

www.univaasa.fi/fi/rekry/hakuprosessi/yliopistoura/particulars/tenure_track-tehtava-digitalisaatio_ja_talousoikeus/ (in Finnish)
www.univaasa.fi/en/rekry/hakuprosessi/yliopistoura/particulars/tenure_track-tehtava-digitalisaatio_ja_talousoikeus/ (in English)

Salary
The salary is based on the Finnish University Salary System for Teaching and Research Staff. A Professor's salary level is based on demand levels 8-10. The demand levels for an Associate Professor's position are 6-7 and an Assistant Professor's 5-6. An additional personal salary component is paid based on work performance (4-46,3%).

Tenure track at the University of Vaasa
The University's Tenure track procedure offers the recruited person an opportunity to advance to become a professor of their discipline. The selected candidate can advance to the next career stage provided that he/she succeeds in the regular evaluations of the Tenure track scheme. On the basis of the candidate's experience and competence, he/she may be employed for a fixed term as Assistant Professor (2-5 years) or Associate Professor (3-5 years). A person demonstrating particular merits and indisputably filling the qualification requirements may be appointed to the position of professor on a permanent basis.

More information about the Tenure track procedure and working with us: https://www.univaasa.fi/fi/rekry/hakuprosessi/yliopistoura/tenure_track_at_the_university_of_vaasa.pdf

How to apply

To apply for the position, please use our online application system. In order for us to process your application, please ensure that you fill in the application form and include all the attachments as specified in the Particulars of appointment. The application period ends midnight 30th August 2018 (Finnish time, GMT +3).

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Työnantajan nimi: Vaasan yliopisto

source: TIVA