Rights, Person, Innovation and Market

The PHD intends to support research projects aimed at combining attention to cultural, technological and methodological innovation, with which the legal sciences have been called to confront in recent years, with a view that places the rights of the person in the foreground and the person as the main referent of law. The growing complexity of phenomena, which the jurist must contribute to governing, makes it more necessary than ever a clear identification of solid value foundations, and the reference to the person as a key reading of modernity identifies a precious anchor of research paths.

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Educational goals

The PhD Programme, both on the conduction of research projects and in the development of the training proposals, has the following general objectives:

to provide PhD students with the content and methodological training necessary to address the difficult questions that, in the various areas of legal science, the rapid evolution of economic processes and social dynamics presents to the jurist;
to offer them the appropriate tools to address those issues, paying particular attention to the international regulatory context and the ideas coming from comparative analysis;
to stimulate, based on the training received and the conceptual and methodological tools acquired, the ability to develop and propose concrete and innovative legal solutions in the face of the challenges posed by the need to combine cultural, technological and methodological evolution and the rights of the person as the main point of reference of the law.

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Occupational and professionals goals

The PhD intends to train professionals capable of independently developing innovative research paths in the field of legal sciences, both in the private sector and in the public sector. The skills acquired can be usefully put to use, in addition to traditional research paths (at universities or other study and research institutions), in a plurality of professional contexts. With regard to opportunities within the public administration, the PhD provides the appropriate preparation to cover positions that require high skills in the analysis of decision-making processes and in the technical-legal processing : the multidisciplinary nature of the PhD aims precisely at increasing the ability of PhD students to approach issues in a transversal way and far from rigid schematisms. With regard to possible placements within the private sector (profit and non-profit), at the end of the training course, PhDs will be able to compete for roles that require the specialized skills and sensitivities essential to outline and supervise organizational models, aimed at preparing an adequate legal framework for technological innovations and for the development of new production and work systems.

RESEARCH THEMES AND OPPORTUNITIES

The PhD Programme, which is in line with the master's degree courses in Law and Legal Sciences of Innovation, active at the Department of Law - intends to support research projects aimed at combining attention to cultural, technological and methodological innovation that legal sciences are called to deal in recent years, with a view that places the rights of the person in the foreground and the person as the main referent of law. The growing complexity of the phenomena and relationships, which the jurist must contribute to governing, makes it more necessary than ever to clearly identify solid value foundations, and the reference to the person (the driving force of innovation but at the same time ultimately the recipient of it) as the key of reading modernity identifies a precious anchoring of research paths. The PhD Programme sees the participation of academicians from both private law and public law sectors, on the assumption that phenomena such as digital innovation and the creation of value by the users themselves which is correlated to it, or the environmental sustainability of development economics, as well as the emergence and establishment of new production models, require a close correlation of the public and private sectors. In view of concentrating on the fundamental rights of the person as much as the reflection on the reform guidelines of public administration and national institutions and European, as well as proposals on market, business and forms of work developments.
In particular, the intense season of reforms affecting public administration in recent years requires the jurist's commitment to articulating and formulating proposals capable of combining the different needs that the reforms must address. The participation of professors of philosophy of law and historical-comparative sectors 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 of legal solutions, as well as investigating the innovation processes that have affected and are affecting the law itself.