Academic Year 2023-2024
Subject area Legal, Politological, Economic and Statistical Sciences
Cycle 39
Coordinator Prof. Marco Cavina
Language French, English, Italian, Spanish
Duration 3 years

Application deadline: Jun 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM (Expired)

PhD Call for Applications, with scholarships funded by NRRP and other funds

Enrolment: From Jul 28, 2023 to Aug 21, 2023

Doctoral programme start date: Nov 01, 2023

39 PNRR PhD Call for Applications
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

Appointed by RD n. 709/2023 Prot n. 149534 on Jun 02, 2023

Surname and Name University / Institution Role email
Dugato Marco Università di Bologna Member marco.dugato2@unibo.it
Farnelli Gian Maria Università di Bologna Member gianmaria.farnelli2@unibo.it
Legnani Annichini Alessia Università di Bologna Member alessia.legnani@unibo.it
Memmo Daniela Università di Bologna Member daniela.memmo@unibo.it
Nisco Attilio Università di Bologna Member attilio.nisco2@unibo.it
Renzetti Silvia Università di Bologna Member silvia.renzetti3@unibo.it
Al Mureden Enrico Università di Bologna Substitute enrico.almureden@unibo.it
Bonetti Tommaso Università di Bologna Substitute tommaso.bonetti3@unibo.it
Chiussi Curzi Ludovica Università di Bologna Substitute ludovica.chiussi@unibo.it
Lasagni Giulia Università di Bologna Substitute giulia.lasagni6@unibo.it
Polacchini Francesca Università di Bologna Substitute francesca.polacchini@unibo.it
Santucci Gianni Università di Bologna Substitute gianni.santucci2@unibo.it
Tordini Cagli Silvia Università di Bologna Substitute silvia.tordinicagli@unibo.it
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