Professor in IT and Internet Law - Copenhagen Business School
Professor in IT and Internet law at the Department of Business Humanities and Law
Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a vacant Professorship position in IT and Internet law at the Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL). The professorship is located in the department's CBS LAW unit.
Core research areas of the Department of Business Humanities and Law include governance, culture, learning, entrepreneurship, business ethics, leadership and business law from commercial and societal perspectives.
Research areas that the professor should cover:
- Information technology law (IT Law)
- Telecommunications law
- Cyberlaw/Internet Law
- IT policy & law
Teaching responsibilities of the Department comprise, among other, undergraduate and graduate teaching in business administration and sociology,entrepreneurship, business law, public governance, leadership, business ethics and philosophy of science.
The Professorship is a permanent position with research and teaching obligations.
Furthermore, the chosen applicant is expected to show good academic citizenship, meaning that the person is expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the activities of the department, such as research seminars, workshops, and conferences.
Research environment
The Department of Business Humanities and Law is dedicated to an integrated approach to the contemporary challenges facing business and society drawing on the humanities, interdisciplinary social sciences, and law. It emphasizes problem-oriented research to understand those challenges and to build the lifelong capabilities necessary to address them. Faculty within the department have diverse research backgrounds and research foci including but not limited to leadership, entrepreneurship, ethics, strategy, law, politics, sociology, philosophy, history, anthropology, diversity, equity and inclusion, culture and leisure management. What unites faculty is an overriding concern for the organization of the human within its multiple environments and, by implication, are search interest in the interdisciplinary conversation between humanities and social sciences.
Within the Department of Business Humanities and Law, the position will be located in the CBS LAW Unit.
CBS LAW is internationally recognised for the excellence in law scholarship and for an interdisciplinary, proactive and dynamic research perspective within law in Northern Europe. CBS LAW concentrates on providing unique research relevant for the Danish business community, public sector, and society in general andengages in research firmly grounded in business and societal problems. Our perspective is Nordic, EU and global and is based not only on traditional law disciplines but also on a unique interface between law, management, entrepreneurship, economics and policymaking.
CBS LAW is a source of expertise in a number of EU and Nordic-specific legal areas and provides, in that sense, the research that business communitiesneed and demand. At the same time, we are strongly represented in European and global scholarship. Our core competences are contract law, company law, IT regulation, public procurement, competition law, tax law and law & economics.
CBS LAW publishes widely both in the international and national core journals and monographs.
CBS LAW is a constituent research unit of the Department for Business Humanities and Law (BHL). As such, a part of our activities also concentrates on multidisciplinary research and creating interfaces between law, other disciplines at BHL.
CBS LAW is involved in teaching BSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law (HA-jur), MSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law (cand.merc.jur), MSc in Business and Economics and Auditing (cand. merc. aud), Master in tax and other study programmes at CBS. The majority of the courses are taught in Danish.
CBS LAW is part ot the CBS PhD school.
Responsibilities:
- Teaching and associated examination in existing CBS programs (in both Danish and English)
- Individual and group-based research meeting high international standards
- Contributing to the development and application of the research of the department’s research areas and to maintain and strengthen CBS’s international research position
- Promoting CBS academic reputation
- Initiating, fund-raising and coordinating research projects
- Promoting teaching and research capabilities of Copenhagen Business School
- Providing academic leadership and undertaking administrative responsibilities within the department and across CBS
- Communicating findings to the public in general and to CBS stakeholders in particular
- Publishing, scientific communication and research-based teaching
- Active participation in the teaching and research activities, including research seminars, workshops and conferences
Qualifications:
- PhD degree in an appropriate field
- Experience in academic leadership and departmental management
- Documented teaching qualifications
- Documented research production at an international level
- Documented ability to teach and write at a high academic level
- Professional proficiency in English and Danish (written and spoken)
- Candidates should share a keen interest in working with colleagues in both research and teaching, and to promote a vibrant research culture
Copenhagen Business School has a broad commitment to the excellence, distinctiveness and relevance of its teaching and research programmes. Candidates who wish to join us should demonstrate enthusiasm for working in an organisation of this type and have a record of engagement with empirical andtheoretical interdisciplinary research and ability to work autonomously, and as part of a team.
For further information please contact: Head of Department Mitchell Dean, e-mail mde.bhlsreyeslhanna@ortega.dkjohnston-white.dkcbs.dk. Information about the department may be found at www.cbs.dk/bhl and about CBS LAW at https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and- centres/department-of-business-humanities-and-law/cbs-law.
Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Central Academic Organisation.
Application
Application must be sent via the electronic recruitment system, using the link below. Application must include:
- A statement of application.
- Full CV and copies of Master and PhD diplomas.
- Documentation of relevant, significant, original research at an international level, including publications inthe field’s internationally recognized journals and citations in the Social Science Citation Index, Scopus and/or Google Scholar.
- A teaching portfolio documenting teaching qualifications and pedagogical development. The portfolio must include an overview of the applicants past teaching achievements and practice and its impact onthe students, reflections on pedagogical competencies and core strengths, the educational competencies the applicant would like to develop, and the teaching opportunities they would like to pursue in the nearest future. Internal applicants must use the CBS Teaching Portfolio format. It is available at www.share.cbs.dk. Please make a pdf of each of the spreadsheets from part B of the portfolio.
- Information indicating experience in research management, industry co-operation and international co-operation.
- A complete, numbered list of publications (indicating titles, co-authors, page numbers and year) with an *marking of the academic productions to be considered during the review. A maximum of 10 publications for review are allowed. Applicants are requested to prioritise their publications in relation to the field of this job advertisement.
- Copies of the publications marked with an *. Only publications written in English (or another specified principal language, according to research tradition) or one of the Scandinavian languages will betaken into consideration).
Application due: September 1, 2025
Recruitment procedure
The Recruitment Committee will shortlist minimum two applicants; when possible five or more applicants wil lbe shortlisted. The shortlisted applicants will be assessed by the Assessment Committee. All applicants will be notified of their status in the recruitment process shortly after the application deadline.
The applicants selected for assessment will be notified about the composition of the Assessment Committee andlater in the process about the result of the assessment. Once the assessment committee has completed its evaluation, the department may extend interview invitations to selected qualified candidates.
Once the recruitment process is completed each applicant will be notified of the outcome of their application.
Copenhagen Business School must receive all application material, including all appendices (see items above), by the application deadline.
Copenhagen Business School invites all qualified candidates to apply for the position. An appointment committee will review the applications and may invite a selection of qualified candidates to an interview.
One of CBS’ strategic goals is the promotion of diversity, which is why every effort has been made to ensure a recruitment process that reduces potential bias. Applicants are therefore encouraged not toinclude a photo or unnecessary personal information in their application.
Details about Copenhagen Business School and the department are available at www.cbs.dk
Application due
9/1/2025
Start date
1/1/2026
Category
Professor
Homepage
http://www.cbs.dk/
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