The PhD Programme, consistent with the single-cycle Master's Degree in Law and other degree programs 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 confronting with a focus on human rights and the individual as the primary focus of law.
The growing complexity of phenomena that lawyers must help manage makes it more necessary than ever to clearly identify solid foundations of values, and 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 faculty from both private and public law fields, 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 correlation 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 of public administration and national and European institutions, and in proposals for market, business, and work developments. The participation of faculty from historical and comparative fields also aims to develop in PhD students a methodological sensitivity that takes into account the social, economic, and cultural aspects of a given spatial-temporal context, developing the ability to adapt and relativize legal solutions.