SAPIENZA - Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche

The three years long PhD course aims at training the candidates to the doctor’s degree to scientific research on issues and matters included in the two above mentioned scientific and didactic sectors, namely: (i) the Law of Private Business and Enterprises, including Company Law, Commercial Contracts Law, Intellectual Property Law; (ii) the Public Regulation of Private Enterprises; (iii)Banking and Insurance Law; (iv) Securities Regulation. Doctoral candidates are required to devote themselves to the scientific research on one or more issues arranged with the ’college of teachers’ and to complete, within three years, an original scientific work (the ’doctoral thesis’). Particular attention is given to training on classical legal thought, updating of the training through the reading of more recent works, which have made significant contributions in terms of the method of scientific inquiry, the development of ideas, the comparison with the debates in the international arena. Taking advantage of the presence of professors of economics in the ’college of teachers’, particular attention is given to the study of the economic aspects of legal issues and legal institutions and to the method of the economic analysis of law. The PhD students are also invited to practice the comparative method and the best of them are encouraged to spend periods of study abroad at universities or academic institutions with which the PhD teachers have contacts.