Academic Year 2022-2023
Subject area Legal, Politological, Economic and Statistical Sciences
Cycle 38
Coordinator prof. Renzo Orlandi
Language French, English, Italian, Spanish
Duration 3 years

Application deadline: Aug 02, 2022 at 11:59 PM (Expired)

NRRP Call for Applications

Enrolment: From Sep 21, 2022 to Sep 29, 2022 - On www.studenti.unibo.it download NRRP forms only

Doctoral programme start date: Nov 01, 2022

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Application deadline: Jun 09, 2022 at 11:59 PM (Expired)

Call for Applications

Positions: More information in the PhD Programme Table

Enrolment: From Jul 21, 2022 to Jul 31, 2022

Doctoral programme start date: Nov 01, 2022

Operating centre
Bologna
Main Department
Department of Legal Studies - DSG
Research topics
  • IUS/01 – Civil Law
  • IUS/03 – Agricultural Law
  • IUS/04 – Commercial Law
  • IUS/06 – Maritime Law
  • IUS/07 – Labour Law
  • IUS/08 – Costitutional Law
  • IUS/10 – Administrative Law
  • IUS/11 – Canonic Law
  • IUS/12 - Tax Law
  • IUS/13 – International Law
  • IUS/15 – Civil Procedure Law
  • IUS/16 – Criminal Procedure Law
  • IUS/17 – Criminal Law
  • IUS/18 – Roman Law
  • IUS/19 – History of Medieval and Modern Law
  • IUS/20 – Philosophy of Law
  • IUS/21 – Comparative Public Law
  • SPS/12 – Legal sociology, sociology of deviance and of social change
Job opportunities and potential areas of employment
- university
- legal professions
- judicial branch
- italian and european public administration
- private institutions
Admission Board

Surname Name University / Institution Role email
Aicardi Nicola Università di Bologna Member
Luchetti Giovanni Università di Bologna Member
Musso Alberto Università di Bologna Member
Tassani Thomas Università di Bologna Member
Vicoli Daniele Università di Bologna Member
Querzola Lea Università di Bologna Member
Zunarelli Stefano Università di Bologna Member
Barillà Giovanni Battista Università di Bologna Substitute
D'Angelo Giangiacomo Università di Bologna Substitute
Lolli Alessandro Università di Bologna Substitute
Mattioli Fabiana Università di Bologna Substitute
Romagnoli Alessandra Università di Bologna Substitute
Valentini Elena Università di Bologna Substitute
Learning outcomes
  • developing PhD candidates research skills in the legal domain
  • developing PhD candidates knowledge of existing legal rules, case law and legal theories
  • legal profession training
Activities to be carried out by Doctoral candidates
  • research activity
  • scientific publications
  • teaching activity
  • participations in workshops and seminars
Research training activities compliant with the Doctoral programme's learning outcomes

The Department of Legal Studies will assist students by providing research training through the research methods courses run at Departmental level, through the Law Department research seminars. This consists of presentations concentrating on the methodological problems of legal and socio-legal research, by members of staff, visiting speakers and research students. Students are expected to attend the seminars and give presentations on their work. Since PhD candidates are expected to consolidate general legal skills studies developed at the their undergraduate and LLM levels and develop top research skills in a chosen specific area of inquiry, the following activities are expected:

  • Seminars mainly devoted to broad or general legal topics
  • Reading groups and specialized seminars for each curriculum in the programme.
Internationalization features
  • PhD students research periods abroad
  • PhD students participation in international seminars and workshops
  • visiting professors panels and seminars at the Department of Legal Studies
  • scientific collaborations with European and international Universities
  • PhD students participation in european and international research projects
  • Erasmus Mundus researchers participation in the PhD program
Expected research results and products
  • articles and case notes
  • PhD thesis
  • book

Notices

NRRP Call - Admission Exams Schedule

Qualifications Evaluation Results: from Aug. 23th, 2022; Oral Examination: from Aug. 30th, 2022 - 9.30am; Oral Examination Results: from Sept. 1st, 2022. For further information, check the detail of your application on Studenti Online.