Dottorato in Scienze Giuridiche

Settori Scientifico Disciplinari:

• Constitutional and Public Law (GIUR-05/A)
• Law and Religion (GIUR-07/A)
• Roman Law and Foundations of European Law (GIUR-15/A)
• History of Medieval and Modern Law (GIUR-16/A)
• Philosophy of Law (GIUR-17/A)

The curriculum offers an interdisciplinary training pathway for those wishing to deepen their study of law, with particular attention to the exercise of public power in contemporary societies and to the forms of recognition, promotion, and protection of fundamental rights. Through a diverse educational offer in both content and methods—especially by intertwining the study of Roman law, the history of medieval and modern law, philosophy of law, and general theory of law with constitutional and ecclesiastical law—the program ensures the acquisition of a critical method and a set of skills suitable for understanding contemporary legal reality.
Doctoral candidates will acquire the essential tools to interpret the legal phenomenon, taking into account its multifaceted nature, its multi-level dynamics, its historical origins, and the theoretical issues connected to it. Alongside the common educational activities shared by the various scientific-disciplinary fields involved, specialized teaching activities are also provided. These are carried out in ways tailored to the different disciplinary areas, including seminars and informal discussions with students.
Among the topics addressed are: codification and the Constitution between tradition and innovation; human rights and “ius migrandi”; new technologies and individual rights; Law and Humanities; Law and Literature; Global Constitutional Law; law and gender; general theory of fundamental rights.

Settori Scientifico Disciplinari:

• Private Law (GIUR-01/A)
• Agri-Food Law (GIUR-03/B)
• Labour Law (GIUR-04/A)
• Comparative Private Law (GIUR-11/A)

The curriculum includes training and research activities concerning the evolution of private law, comparative private law, agricultural law, and labor law, through the in-depth study of topics corresponding to the individual curricular disciplines. The redefinition of the relationship between the individual and patrimoniality leads, within a multi-level framework, to a reshaping of regulatory structures and emerging principles across the different subsystems of law. The dialogue among the various legal disciplines aims to provide appropriate methodological tools, open to economic perspectives, and designed to foster eclectic argumentative developments.
From the standpoint of private law analysis, the centrality of the individual—also combined with market considerations—directs attention to the critical nexus constituted by the dynamics of fundamental rights. The focus arises from the interactions between being and having, and from the attempt to reinterpret economic private law in light of personalist values; hence the emphasis on diversity, attention to weakness and vulnerability, and reference to the parameter of balance.
Nevertheless, in the age of complexity, the advance of technology requires new reflections, also in the perspective of communicating vessels among different subsystems of culture. The theme of Artificial Intelligence provides new insights, projecting the inquiry toward legal solutions that capture its specificities. The complex axiological framework and the challenges of “technique” must be grasped and explored at the systemic level so that technological progress unfolds in harmony with the protection of the human person, with the requirements of food security, with respect for workers’ rights, and within a perspective that takes into account the European legal tradition and comparative law in both diachronic and synchronic dimensions.

Settori Scientifico Disciplinari:

• European Union Law (GIUR-10/A)
• Criminal Procedure Law (GIUR-13/A)
• Criminal Law (GIUR-14/A)

The curriculum aims to provide advanced training for the contemporary jurist in the field of criminal protection, both substantive and procedural. It seeks to promote the acquisition of specialized skills relating to the protection of the individual, in light of the fundamental guarantees established and developed by international, European, and national sources, with particular regard to their application in case law at the respective levels and to their mutual interaction.
A crucial element in achieving this objective is the comparison between legal systems and jurisprudential experiences, including that of the International Criminal Court, both as a diagnostic method of inquiry and as a means of developing solutions consistent with the evolution of science and technology, with particular attention to the achievement of the objectives of the 2030 Agenda.
With regard to European and international legal sources, the growing EU harmonization of key sectors of substantive and procedural criminal law and of transnational criminal justice, as well as the significant contribution of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights to the definition of shared standards of protection in the criminal sphere, make it essential to analyze the evolution of national law in light of both EU legislation and case law and the jurisprudence of the ECtHR.

Settori Scientifico Disciplinari:

• Business Law (GIUR-02/A)
• Navigation and Transport Law (GIUR-02/B)
• Economics Law (GIUR-03/A)
• Administrative and Public Law (GIUR-06/A)
• Tax Law (GIUR-08/A)

The curriculum aims to train young researchers and highly qualified professionals capable of experimenting with new research methods in response to the challenges associated with the digital transition, regarded as a key driver for the reform of public administration and for business development. The process of technological modernization of the State is part of a broader transformation of administrative organization and its procedures, which must increasingly be characterized by a multi-level governance approach, capable of experimenting not only with market-based solutions but also with authentic applications of the principle of horizontal subsidiarity. This is also reflected in the sphere of services of general interest, particularly with regard to new demands related to the sustainability of mobility systems, as well as the implementation of Artificial Intelligence in the management of transport and navigation systems, including the innovative aspects of space exploration.
Such competencies are also stimulated by the radical paradigm shift observable in modern business law, which develops along two innovative research directions: corporate sustainability—addressed through themes such as sustainable finance, the purpose of the enterprise, and the creation of long-term value; and the integration of Artificial Intelligence into business organizations and into the functional and decision-making dynamics of corporate bodies. In this perspective, attention will also be devoted to the evolving profiles of regulated markets, with particular reference to the banking and financial sector, as well as to the impact of taxation in the transport sector and to the regulatory aspects of Tax assessment proceedings and Tax litigation.

Settori Scientifico Disciplinari:

• Private Law (GIUR-01/A)
• Business Law (GIUR-02/A)
• Navigation and Transport Law (GIUR-02/B)
• Constitutional and Public Law (GIUR-05/A)
• Administrative and Public Law (GIUR-06/A)
• Law and Religion (GIUR-07/A)
• Tax Law (GIUR-08/A)
• Comparative Private Law (GIUR-11/A)
• Criminal Procedure Law (GIUR-13/A)
• Criminal Law (GIUR-14/A)
• Roman Law and Foundations of European Law (GIUR-15/A)
• Philosophy of Law (GIUR-17/A)

This curriculum aims at training highly qualified researchers and professionals capable of experimenting with cutting-edge research methods in connection to the new challenges faced by the “DISEGUAL” excellence program of the Department of Law (i.e., “Developing an International Strategy in the Euro-Mediterranean Area on the Goods for an Updated Anthropic Loop”). The academic activities set forth in this curriculum are carried out and taught in English language only, and envisage the participation of international experts and Visiting Professors. Indeed, the objective of this curriculum is to train young scholars through a markedly transnational (and inter-area) teaching and research approach. In particular, as far as research activity is concerned, it moves from an innovative framing of the inequalities and gaps topics in the perspective of fostering a strategy of production and circulation of legal goods capable of affecting the process of anthropisation by pursuing new territorial sustainability goals, as well as the enhancement of the several cultural/religious declensions composing the Euro-Mediterranean area. Therefore, in light of these premises, the aim of this curriculum is to develop advanced research, with a clear international and interdisciplinary projection, on the legal framework and the concrete possibilities of access and use of environmental, cultural, digital, and bioeconomic assets.

In fact, these are goods that shall be analysed from a markedly social and relational standpoint. So, such goods shall be processed from a legal perspective as to reveal their potential as tools of propulsion of articulated social relations between subjects belonging to different cultures, religions, and social groups.