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Doctoral School of Law

A quality research environment

The doctoral school of law offers a quality research environment, assuring the best conditions for an advanced training of doctoral candidates in law at the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ. Through its research and training programmes, the University fosters an open-minded approach to legal analysis, going beyond the boundaries of national jurisdictions, to promote comparative cross-disciplinary research.

Comparative cross-disciplinary research, within a multilingual environment and an international academic team

Objectives

The DSL offers a quality research environment, assuring the best conditions for an advanced training of doctoral candidates in law at the 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ. Through its research and training programmes, the University fosters an open-minded approach to legal analysis, going beyond the boundaries of national jurisdictions, to promote comparative cross-disciplinary research, within a multilingual environment and an international academic team.

The DS offers both theoretical and practical training, providing a useful background for writing a thesis and adopting a broad scientific culture. The training aims to equip doctoral students with the necessary epistemological and methodological tools for pursuing a rigorous research project and introduce them to a cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary culture.

The DSL aims to achieve the following objectives:

  • To support and enhance the legal education of doctoral students,
  • To advance and build upon current research methodology,
  • To cultivate an academic culture and an open-minded mentality among doctoral students in the framework of a cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary approach,
  • To promote immersion in different legal cultures.

Interculturality and interdisciplinarity

Through its research and training programmes, the University fosters an open-minded approach to legal analysis, going beyond the boundaries of national jurisdictions, to promote comparative cross-disciplinary research, within a multilingual environment (English, French and German) and an international academic team.

The school in numbers

  • 83
    Doctoral candidates
  • 25
    Thesis supervisors

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