Person and Legal Systems

The Doctoral School of Law has the task of scientific and cultural orientation and the organization and management of educational activities, and includes two Doctoral Courses: "Business, Labor, Institutions and Criminal Justice" and "Person and Legal Systems".

The School has a Steering Committee that assists the Coordinators of the Doctoral Courses in the planning and organization of common teaching activities. The Committee also distributes resources among the Doctoral Courses pertaining to the School, and plans and verifies their use.

The President of the Steering Committee of the Doctoral School of Law is Prof. Matteo Corti

The doctoral programme in "Person and Legal Systems" is open to Italian and foreign graduates with the aim of training highly qualified researchers, suitable for carrying out research and professional activities that require a high degree of scientific preparation. To this end, lectures are provided, especially in the first year of the doctoral programme, which can stimulate the interest of the doctoral students. Their specialized training then takes the form of inclusion from the beginning of the doctoral course in a particular profile among the following: administrative law, canon and ecclesiastical law, comparative law, constitutional law, international and European Union law, criminal law, private law, civil procedural law, Roman law and ancient law, tax law, philosophy of law, criminal procedure and evidentiary law, History of Medieval and Modern Law. 

In addition to the traditional entry into the university career, the doctoral school will tend to train jurists for the diplomatic career, for specialized forensic professions: lawyers or magistrates or experts competent in human rights, children's rights, adoption law, environmental law, non-profit law; senior management of public offices and community and international bodies; experts in legal psychology.