The PhD in Legal Sciences is the highest level of training offered by the Department of Legal Sciences, where training and research are closely intertwined to promote the integration of the various legal specializations, coordinating a sectoral approach with an interdisciplinary and multidimensional perspective.

Each year, at least one scholarship will be awarded to students who have obtained a degree or equivalent qualification abroad, mainly, but not exclusively, in law. The doctorate aims to train legal professionals in the complexity of the legal phenomenon, emphasizing the European and international dimensions from a jurisprudential, historical, and theoretical perspective. At the same time, the doctoral program provides specialized knowledge for those aspiring to pursue scientific research activities, equipping scholars with the tools for in-depth research in various areas of positive law, as well as in the history and philosophy of law.

The program is taught in Italian (foreign doctoral students are required to attend free Italian courses at the University Language Centre) and includes specific training activities structured into lectures, seminars, study conferences, as well as summer and winter schools on various topics related to the scientific disciplines involved. Conferences and cultural initiatives are organized by members of the Faculty Board and by professors from other Italian and foreign universities, as well as by experts. The first year is characterized by particularly intense joint training aimed at highlighting the interdisciplinary interconnections, and in the following years, by tutor-guided training tailored to the research topic chosen by the doctoral student, focusing on the state-of-the-art and the multidimensional development of regulatory and interpretive dynamics, with the possibility of research stays in Italy and abroad. The third year continues with the specialization of the doctoral student with a view to writing the doctoral thesis, but always from a multidisciplinary perspective, marked by a wide range of seminars and conferences offered.

For this reason, the doctoral program is structured into the following four broad interdisciplinary curricula.