Universidade Santiago de Compostela
PhD in LawSantiago de Compostela, Spain
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
Spanish, Galician
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 200 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
The Doctorate Program in Law is a solid, ambitious and future-oriented proposal that brings together practically all branches of Law. This option also escaped from an atomization of lines of research in order to consolidate multiple perspectives in seven main lines that allow to provide this formative stage with an approach that surpasses the division into areas of knowledge, favoring synergies between groups and that also allows the sum of critical mass and the display of sound scientific results.
The program is endorsed not only by the actuality of significant financial support, captured in competitive calls from different fields (regional, national and international), but, perhaps most importantly, by a track record of the teachers and groups that make it up that accredits that such academic, scientific and financial recognition is not temporary, but has well-established roots and a solid trajectory.
The seven lines of research are suitable for carrying out research of a purely academic nature or closer to the legal practice of each day. The Academic Committee of the Program will ensure that theses are carried out in both channels and will ensure the maximum dissemination of those that have a special connection with the company, the Administration and the market. From a methodological point of view, the purpose of this Program is to adequately attend not only to the final product obtained by the doctorate (the thesis), but above all to the process (teaching / learning of which is legal research), convinced that the Competencies and skills acquired during the aforementioned process will train the future doctor for a wide variety of professional opportunities.
Lines of investigation
- General theory of law, legal argumentation, constitutional and criminal regulation. Fundamental rights
- Administrative law and public administrations
- Alternative methods of conflict resolution: mediation in the judicial process
- property law
- Law of the person, family and inheritance
- company law
- International and European studies
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Ideal Students
They will be able to access, without needing to take additional training:
- Students from Master's studies of a predominantly legal nature offered by the USC, or by other Spanish or European universities.
- Students with the DEA degree obtained through legal programs at USC or other universities carried out in accordance with the regulations in force at the time they were carried out.
Other profiles:
In the case of other types of profiles different from the previous ones, the CAPD will evaluate each case individually, with the possibility of requiring additional training (up to a maximum of 15 ECTS) in subjects or degree/master's modules with predominantly legal content.
In the case of other profiles that have not completed a Master's degree, an equivalence of training in research credits will be required, at least equal to those of the master's degree that gives direct access.
Foreign students:
Graduates will be able to access it according to foreign educational systems, without the need for approval, after verification by the University that it accredits a level of training equivalent to that of the official Spanish university master's degree and that it entitles the country issuing the degree to access to doctoral studies. This admission will not imply, in any case, the homologation of the previous degree of which the interested party is in possession or its recognition for purposes other than access to doctoral education.
Admissions
Curriculum
Formation activities
- Conference on integrity and ethics in research E3031A01
- Seminar on searching for information for legal research E3031A02
- Seminar on writing legal research texts E3031A03
Training complements
- Constitutional Law I - Definition of the State and Source Systems G3161101
- Constitutional Law I - Organs of the Democratic State G3161106
- Constitutional Law II- Rights and Freedoms and their Protection G3161222
- Law of Obligations and Civil Liability G3161223
- Contract Rights G3161227
In the case of other types of profiles different from the previous ones, the CAPD will evaluate each case individually, with the possibility of requiring additional training (up to a maximum of 15 ECTS) in subjects or degree/master's modules with predominantly legal content.