Student Assistants in Comparative Law

The Center for Law and Economics at ETH Zurich is looking for 2-3 research assistants who speak Arabic, Japanese, Korean, OR Spanish to work on a project on privacy law diffusion.

You will work on the analysis of privacy laws worldwide. Your tasks will include:

• Mapping global legislation on privacy law
• Coding privacy laws by reading them and analyzing whether specific rights or provisions are present
• Cross-checking results with other members of the IP group
• There is potential to contribute to making the project publicly accessible online in a website format. While the exact format is yet to be determined, this could involve participating in the creation of a dynamic tool for comparing privacy laws globally.

Working Hours

The workload is 5 hours per week (flexible) and the project is to be concluded by August 2025. 

• You are currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in law at the University of Zurich, the University of St. Gallen, or another university near Zurich.
• You have an interest in law or policy diffusion, privacy law, and international comparative law.
• Knowledge of privacy / data protection law is highly desirable.
• You have excellent academic performance and very good English skills.
• You must also speak one or several of the following languages: Arabic, Japanese, Korean, or Spanish (or have experience working with laws in the MENA region, Japan, South Korea, or Latin America).
• You are interested in working in an interdisciplinary environment as part of a young, dynamic, and international team.
• You are interested in designing and conducting interdisciplinary research projects in collaboration with a team of legal, economics, and computer science scholars.

We are an interdisciplinary research group at the intersection of law, economics, and computer science working on large collaborative projects on regulating the digital economy. We maintain close contact with computer science research groups at ETH Zurich and beyond. Our offices are in the city center of Zurich, our working language is English.