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Law – (Ph.D.)
Pompeu Fabra University
Department of Law
| Application Deadline: | from November 2nd 2011 to June 30th 2012 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 850 - | ||
| Location: | Barcelona / Spain / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 15 | ||
| Languages: | Spanish Catalan | ||
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The doctorate in Law is an interdisciplinary programme in which the different areas of knowledge that constitute the Department of Law come into play. These areas offer doctoral students the chance to participate actively in regular seminars so that they can find out about the latest lines of research -and benefit from them- of both national and foreign lecturers invited to take part, plus the latest methodological tools applied to legal research.
Objectives The doctorate in Law includes, on the one hand, the writing and presentation of a doctoral thesis, consisting of original research work on one of the doctorate lines of research, and on the other, a training period in the form of courses, seminars and similar activities.
The programme aims to train researchers through the study of the concepts and methods of research in different areas and disciplines of law. It aims for doctoral students to acquire and develop broad and at the same time in-depth competency in the different analytical and methodological skills that will enable them to carry out quality research, as well as the participate satisfactorily in the different forums in which they present their research work.
Contents
Contents Training is organised around courses, seminars, research stays and other activities aimed at training researchers, and shall include the writing and presentation of the corresponding doctoral thesis, consisting of original research work.
Compulsory course
* Methodology to Approach a Doctoral Thesis (4 ECTS credits)
Optional courses
* Seminar on Civil Law (4 ECTS credits)
* Seminar on Private International Law (2 ECTS credits)
* Seminar on Labour Law and of the Social Security (4 ECTS credits)
* Spain (1919 to 1931) according to the Archivio Segreto Vaticano (1 ECTS credit)
* Public Law and Institutions (Europe, Spain and Catalonia) (2 ECTS credits)
* Seminar on Penal Law (4 ECTS credits)
* Seminar on Financial and Tax Law: Principles and Means of Financing the Public Services (2 ECTS credits)
* Seminar on Constitutional Law (4 ECTS credits)
* Current Public Law Issues (2 ECTS credits)
* Seminar on Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy and Symposia (4 ECTS credits)
* Students must follow a minimum of 12 credits between seminars, in accordance with the line of research chosen Complementary courses
* Students may take up to 30 credits of the master's degree in Legal Sciences
Requirements
1. Accreditation of holding a Bologna Master's Degree. Official copy of your degree or official document accrediting that said copy has been requested, or, in lack of that, a signed declaration which certifies that the student is able to obtain his/her degree at the start of the course. The admission on the master's course is subject to the submission of the corresponding degree title (or any official document issued by your home University which states that the degree title fees have been duly paid) before the start of the next academic course.
2. Undergraduate and postgraduate academic transcripts
3. Research project.
4. Recommendations (two letters)
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Master's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
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