Training Programme

The PhD Programme, in line with the undergraduate courses  offered by the Department of Law, aims to support research projects that combine a focus on the cultural, technological, and methodological innovation that legal sciences are currently facing with a focus on human rights and the individual as the primary focus of law.

The growing complexity of phenomena and relationships that lawmakers must help govern makes it more necessary than ever to clearly identify solid foundations of values. The focus on the individual (both the driver of innovation and ultimately its recipient) as the key to understanding modernity provides a valuable foundation for research.

The PhD Programme features experts from both private and public law fields. It is based on the premise that phenomena such as digital innovation and the associated creation of value by users, the environmental sustainability of economic development, and the emergence and construction of new production models, require a close connection between the public and private sectors. This is done with a view to focusing on fundamental human rights, both in reflection on the reform guidelines for public administration and national and European institutions, and in proposals for market, business, and work developments. In particular, the intense period of reforms affecting public administration in recent years requires legal scholars to articulate and formulate proposals capable of combining the diverse needs these reforms must address.

The participation of professors of philosophy of law and historical-comparative fields also goes in the direction of developing in PhD students a methodological sensitivity that takes into account the social, economic, cultural aspects of a specific space-time context, developing the ability to contextualize and relativize legal solutions, as well as investigating the innovation processes that have affected and are affecting the law itself.