The educational and scientific pathway of the doctoral program involves multiple cultural areas and is structured into five research lines:
1. Organization of power and protection of fundamental rights in a constitutional and historical-philosophical perspective.
2. Civil law. The individual and the market in domestic, European, and comparative law.
3. Criminal protection and guarantees of the individual in domestic, comparative, and European law: substantive and procedural aspects.
4. Business, transport, and public administration 4.0.
5. Legal goods and social inequalities.
The program provides for the active involvement of doctoral candidates in the Department’s research activities, enabling them to critically elaborate and discuss the results achieved, and to disseminate them within the scientific community through, inter alia, publications and conference presentations.
In addition, doctoral candidates engage in third mission activities and develop research lines consistent with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in line with initiatives promoted by the University.
Complementary training activities are also envisaged to foster the development of transversal competences and soft skills, thereby enhancing the impact of research and completing the professional profile by providing useful tools for career opportunities both in academic and non-academic contexts. Specifically:
- language training and improvement activities for doctoral candidates;
- IT training activities carried out through dedicated educational initiatives;
- activities for the valorization of research results, intellectual property, and open access to research data and outputs, through an in-depth study of the main dissemination channels, while safeguarding intellectual property rights;
- research management and knowledge of European and international research systems;
- activities focusing on fundamental principles of ethics, gender equality, and integrity, encouraging awareness and compliance with the UniMe Code of Conduct.
The Doctoral Program encourages participation in summer and winter schools and study periods abroad; it also promotes exchanges between the research community and the productive sector.