International law deals with relations between nations and states also known as law of nations. The study field can be split into 3 three disciplines: public international law, private international law and supranational law. International law has a broad spectrum of issues. It deals with the legal interactions between nations, companies, governments, assuring their proper rights. National law becomes international law when national jurisdiction is delegated to supranational tribunals by treaties. The main substantive fields of international law are: international economic law, international security law, international criminal law, international environmental law, diplomatic law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law and international law of war.
Whether you are planning a career as an academic within the education sector or as a professional researcher within the public or private sectors, the Kingston Law PhD will enable you to both develop the appropriate research skills and enhance your professional credibility.
A PhD researcher is sought to investigate the relationship between freedom of expression, the internet, and the European Union. Cross-border internet expression raises numerous issues of law, policy and politics, and begs questions about the most effective, practical, legitimate and desirable forms of transnational internet and speech regulation, and whether the EU should or can be part of these solutions.
The PhD in Law of Business and Commerce at Università Bocconi is highly innovative, methodologically rigorous but provides for flexible curricula. The course is structured around the law governing the modern corporation and its relationships with its different constituencies, combining an interdisciplinary approach, an international vision and specialization in the single areas of legal research.
The Faculty of Law has established a co-operation with the Faculty of Law at the University of Iceland about a PhD programme. The university is ranked among the 300 best universities in the world according to The Times Higher Education and is a progressive educational and scientific institution.
The interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in International Business Taxation combines economics, law and management.
The PhD in International Law and Economics began in 1990 and has been part of the Bocconi PhD School since 2006. This unique PhD program is particularly interdisciplinary in nature and has connections with universities abroad, specialized research centers and international organizations. The program is coordinated with the other PhD's offered by Bocconi, in particular with the PhD in Law of Business and Commerce.
The Institute of Development Research and Development Policy at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany offers an international and interdisciplinary three-year PhD program in International Development Studies. The program is entirely taught in English. The PhD in International Development Studies is embedded within the framework of the RUB Research School, a winner of the German Excellence Initiative.
The European University Institute offers one of the world’s largest and most distinguished doctoral programmes in the social sciences. The Institute is unique in its European, comparative and interdisciplinary focus, and offers up to four years scholarship to research students, leading to a doctorate in Law.
The 'Globalisation and Legal Theory’ doctoral programme builds on a collaboration between the Universities of Antwerp (Belgium), Glasgow (United Kingdom), Kiel (Germany) and Tilburg (The Netherlands) that combines the expertise of all four institutions in bringing critical legal thought (in a broad sense) to bear on contemporary global challenges.
Our PhD programme comprises three years of study, starting in September of each year. The bulk of the workload for candidates in the programme takes the form of independent dissertation research. Apart from their independent research, all programme participants are required to take part in content-oriented survey courses, colloquia on research methods, and multidisciplinary skills workshops.
The PhD programme is a three-year research programme aiming to train PhD students at an international level to undertake research, development and teaching assignments in the private and public sectors, for which a broad knowledge of research is required.
This PhD programme is a collaboration between the University of Antwerp and the World Trade Institute at the University of Bern that brings together expertise in all fields of international economic law and legal philosophy.