Enterprise, Labor, Institutions and Criminal Justice

The Ph.D. in "Business, Labor, Institutions and Criminal Justice" is characterized by the prospect of deepening commercial matters, administrative and constitutional matters, labor and industrial relations matters, international matters, in their private and commercial aspects, in conjunction with criminal matters, concerned both in their reality of autonomous disciplinary substances, and in the context of relations between institutions and public and private economic activity, as set out in art. 41 of the Constitution, in the light of the transformations and trends that characterize the current legal modernity.

In the current form of the doctorate, the solid and prestigious tradition of various research doctorates active for more than ten years at Università Cattolica is inherited and developed, of which it wants to preserve the high-profile post-graduate training trait, focused on issues involving the world of institutions, business and work, innovating in the teaching methodology, of an interdisciplinary slant, and in greater openness to the European and international dynamics of the investigation. In particular, the doctorate aims to promote and enhance the teaching of the doctorates established at Università Cattolica in the XXIX cycle in "Institutions and business in domestic and comparative law. Criminal, constitutional and commercial profiles" – which in turn included some historic doctorates, prolific with important scientific and academic results – and in "Labour Law and Industrial Relations".

According to this spirit, the development of a coordinated project of interaction between scholars relating to essentially but not exclusively legal subjects is built with the aim of deepening the issues related to the life of the company in its inclusive institutional, occupational and relational aspects. The aim is to highlight the profiles of domestic, European and international law that complete the preceptual framework of economic dynamics, with an emphasis on both regulatory and sanctioning aspects.

The institution of the doctorate also aims to deepen the issues related to the company in the modern socio-economic context, with particular attention to the development of the human relationships that conduct and surround it, to the governance of the company, and to the sanctioning framework, including criminal ones, that has developed around the request for legality of economic dynamics, and in particular of regulated markets.

Particularly topical issues are therefore identified, such as environmental protection, transparency of financial markets and new forms of protection of investors and other stakeholders, corporate governance , the system of industrial relations, corporate social responsibility, and the boundaries of the criminal protection of legal assets. The transversal and comparative reading that we want to propose to doctoral students cannot ignore the presence of contextual elements, of an international, historical, organizational, economic and business nature, necessary for a multilevel approach to specific problems of an exquisitely technical nature.

Training activities

Alongside the transversal activities proposed to all doctoral students, mentioned above, and together with the study stays abroad, the doctoral course expresses its own training activities for each disciplinary curriculum: commercial law, comparative labor and social security law, international law (public and private), criminal law, public law (administrative and constitutional), in which doctoral students of other fields are also invited to participate. in the name of a real interdisciplinarity.
For each curriculum, the tutors and area managers prepare a calendar of training initiatives, consisting of seminars, lectures, conferences (internal and external to Università Cattolica) and study meetings, some of which are held by the doctoral students themselves on specific topics or during the updating process, which update on the status of the thesis work with a view to constructive dialogue and receive comments and suggestions for the continuation of the research work.

In particular, all PhD students are invited to participate, upon registration, in the training events organized by the Faculty of Law; by the Graduate School "Federico Stella" on Criminal Justice; the Department of Legal Sciences; by the Institute of International Law; the Institute of International Studies; by the European Research Centre for Labour Law and Industrial Relations.