Scholarships for International Researchers
One of our primary aims is to promote academic exchange with foreign scholars. Towards this end, we extend scholarships to researchers whose primary place of residence is outside of Germany in order to give them the chance to to work on their research projects here at the Institute. To this end, a limited number of short-term scholarships (up to a maximum period of four months) are awarded each year. Additionally, the scholarship programme serves to promote personal and institutional contacts with scholars working in the fields of comparative and international private law and thereby continually expand the Institute’s global network.
The research project in question must correspond to the academic interests of the Institute, as only then can it be ensured that scholarship recipients will be able to engage in meaningful academic exchange with other researchers and find relevant literature in our library.
Applicants applying for the current round of scholarship awards are advised that topics presently being researched at the Institute include, in particular, the following:
- Comparative Legal Methodology
- Uniform Private Law
- European Contract Law, especially Sale of Goods Law
- Partnership Law
- Close Corporations
- Company Valuation Law
- Comparative Succession Law (Europe and other continents)
- International Succession Law (especially the European Succession Regulation)
- International civil procedure and economic analysis of the law
- Family and Succession Law in Islamic countries
- Procedural Law in Islamic countries
- Comparative and International Private Law in Islamic countries
- Chinese Product Liability Law
- Chinese Family Law
- Chinese Nonprofit Organisation Law
- Chinese Civil Procedure
- Korean Family Law
- Japanese Company Law
- Japanese Capital Markets Law
The Max Planck Institute offers a limited number of short-term scholarships (maximum of 4 months) for legal scholars whose primary place of residence is outside of Germany. The scholarships are financed by the Max Planck Society and are awarded each year in connection with two windows of application.
Scholarships are available for:
- Foreign doctoral candidates,
- Foreign post-doctoral candidates and other advanced-stage researchers,
- Foreign professors or other senior researchers of equivalent academic achievement.
Previous scholarship recipients are not excluded from applying for a subsequent grant, even as regards the same research project (e.g. a doctoral thesis). In such cases applicants should describe in their research proposal the progress made on their project since the first scholarship grant.
In order to give the greatest number of researchers the chance to work at the Institute, grants are not as a general rule extended to applicants who have already received two scholarship awards.
Please be advised that applicants who have already applied for the first round of submissions for the year 2018 cannot be considered in the second round of submissions. In this case, you may apply again for the year 2019.
Applicants need not be proficient in German. However, if you envision that your intended research will include an inquiry into German law, your research proposal should indicate how you will – as necessary – obtain the desired information from foreign-language sources.
To ensure smooth and effective communication with Institute staff members and other guests, applicants should at a minimum have a strong command of either German or English.
Please take careful note of our application process guidelines. Applications which are incomplete or deviate from the guidelines will not be considered.
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