Doctorate in Law, Sciences Po School of Research (Paris, France) 36 months PHD Program By Sciences Po |Top Universities

Doctorate in Law, Sciences Po School of Research (Paris, France)

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Program Duration

36 monthsProgram duration

Scholarship

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Main Subject Area

Law and Legal StudiesMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Law and Legal Studies

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
The program is designed to provide:
  • Theoretical training with an international dimension;
  • Extensive knowledge of the basic legal techniques, concepts and legal reasoning;
  • A precise and critical approach to the tools for theorising law ;
  • With a comparative and global point of view;
  • Personalised supervision within the research centres from committed and internationally recognised academics.
  • The doctoral program aims to train top-level lawyers who are aiming mainly for academic and research careers in France and abroad. They will be legal theorists, highly trained in a wide range of methods, open to multidisciplinary approaches and to the diversity of legal cultures. To this end, the thesis may be written in French or in English.

Program overview

Main Subject

Law and Legal Studies

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
The program is designed to provide:
  • Theoretical training with an international dimension;
  • Extensive knowledge of the basic legal techniques, concepts and legal reasoning;
  • A precise and critical approach to the tools for theorising law ;
  • With a comparative and global point of view;
  • Personalised supervision within the research centres from committed and internationally recognised academics.
  • The doctoral program aims to train top-level lawyers who are aiming mainly for academic and research careers in France and abroad. They will be legal theorists, highly trained in a wide range of methods, open to multidisciplinary approaches and to the diversity of legal cultures. To this end, the thesis may be written in French or in English.

Admission requirements

3 Years
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More programs from the university

The Sciences Po Undergraduate College offers a three-year Bachelor’s degree programme that includes a year abroad at one of 470 partner universities.

Our students receive a multidisciplinary and broad-based education in the humanities and social sciences and an emphasis on civic, linguistic, and artistic education, in which professional training and extra-curricular activities are strongly emphasised along with academic courses.

Fundamental education is offered across five principal disciplines: Economics, Law, History, Sociology, Political Science.

The Paris campus is home to undergraduate students who follow the general programme. The other campuses offer students the opportunity to study the challenges particular to a geographical region:

Asia at the Le Havre campus

North America and Africa on the Nancy campus

Europe and Franco-German relations on the Reims campus

Central and Eastern Europe on the Dijon campus

Latin America, Spain, and Portugal on the Poitiers campus

The Middle-East and Mediterranean on the Menton campus


Sciences Po offers 13 dual Bachelor degree programmes with leading universities around the world, including 9 international dual degrees (Columbia University, University of California in Berkeley, Freie Universität Berlin, University of Hong Kong, Keio University, National University of Singapore University of British Columbia, University College London, University of Sydney) and 6 French dual degrees.


28 two-year Master’s degree programmes, and 5 one-year Master's programmes are offered, all on the Paris campus, each with a wide choice of concentration.

They are all underpinned by the same main principles, combining fundamental knowledge, applied knowledge and practical experience, active learning and international scope.

Sciences Po also offers over 30 dual degree programmes with French and international partner universities.

Our seven graduate schools prepare students for professional life in a variety of fields.


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The School of Management and Innovation

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