Nelson ILIAD-MID 25/26 Part Time Research Assistant
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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS
The Initiative on Legal Institutions and Democracy (ILIAD) in the McCourtney Institute is seeking a research assistant to work on topics related to the politics of law, courts, and rights. The research assistant will work on a variety of data collection, visualization, and analysis tasks. Applicants should ideally have some experience with data analysis in R and an interest in learning how to conduct social scientific research.
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