The selection of foreign candidates for admission to the doctoral program is conducted through a public competition based on qualifications and interviews, as outlined in the announcement published annually on

https://web.unisa.it/en/teaching/phd-programmes. The interviews will be held is Italian, English, or Spanish, as specified in the announcement.

The interview will focus on the candidate’s qualifications, particularly the thesis and the quality of the research project submitted (for PNRR scholarships, the relevance of the research project to the topics set forth in the relevant regulations will also be assessed), the candidate’s research aptitude and basic knowledge in the chosen curriculum. It may cover any of the following topics:

- The Public Law curriculum deals with issues traditionally associated with public law, particularly constitutional law, administrative law, ecclesiastic law, criminal law, and criminal procedure.

- The Private Law curriculum focuses on current issues in civil and commercial law, including the protection of individuals, contracts, civil liability, and corporations, with particular attention to the impact of new technologies and the corporate "system" in its various forms.

- The International-European-Comparative curriculum seeks to analyse ongoing transformations at the international and transnational levels from a comparative analytical perspective between different legal systems, reframing them in the light of an international-European approach.

- History, Philosophy, and Law curriculum aims to broaden the jurist’s horizon, both historically – through the Roman tradition and its subsequent development up to the 20th century – and theoretically – by fostering constructive and critical reflection on the European legal-political lexicon.