Program Overview

Public Law PhD Program

The Public Law PhD Program is strongly oriented towards internationalization and comparison with different legal and cultural systems. To this end, PhD students will be required, unless specific motivated exceptions are evaluated by the Board of Teachers, to spend a period of at least 3 months in a foreign university or equivalent research center recognized at the international level, chosen based on their research topic and in agreement with their tutor.

Educational Goals

The Public Law PhD Program is articulated in five different curricula:

• Constitutional Law, General Public Law, and Comparative Public Law
• Administrative Law
• Criminal Law and Procedure
• International and European Union Law
• Law and Economics

The curriculum in Constitutional Law, General Public Law, and Comparative Public Law deals with the classic issues of the disciplines, as defined by Italian and European public law doctrine. All related topics to general, sectorial, state, and supranational legal systems; sources of law; fundamental rights, also within the multilevel European dimension; dynamics of territorial decentralization; constitutional guarantees and constitutional justice; government, also referred to as relations among the supreme state institutions, local authorities, and European Union Institutions.

The curriculum in Administrative Law explores the transformation processes of the organization and functioning of public administrations and rule of law-related issues as the principle of legality and judicial protection of fundamental rights against public administration acts. The research topics move from the study of international administrations, in particular, its coordination with national administrations, the analysis of specific issues such as food safety, environmental protection, and competition.

The curriculum in Criminal Law and Procedure proposes a didactic-training program in an attentive dimension oriented by an interdisciplinary framework of the criminal sciences, with the intention of stimulating doctoral students to a greater openness of their research, taking into account the interactions and influences with other disciplines such as prison law, criminology, forensic medicine, and forensic psychology.

The curriculum in Law and Economics promotes interdisciplinary legal and economic research activities, in order to improve the understanding of reasoning and effects of regulatory legal intervention, choices related to institutional arrangements, and questions connected to the enforcement of legal regulation. The law is therefore taken as an object of study, characterized by a set of behavioral incentives/disincentives, to be analyzed and studied through the use of economic instruments.

The curriculum in International and European Union Law intends to offer advanced training in the field of transnational legal phenomena and its relationships with international law and European integration Law. PhD students will have to lead seminars and thematic debates in order to develop analytical and critical skills; activities that will be carried out in constant interaction with the other curricula of the PhD program in order to improve the methodological perspectives of an interdisciplinary nature.

Program Details

• ID: 16170
• Course Type: Dottorato
• Academic Year: 2025/2026
• Positions: 4
• Grant Numbers: 0
• Number of Scholarships Financed by Institutions: 0
• Number of Scholarships Financed by Consortiums: 1

Exams

• Written Exam:
  • Date: 11/7/2025
  • Time: 08:00
  • Location: Aula 101, CU002 - Edificio di Giurisprudenza - Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma
• Oral Exam:
  • Date: 18/7/2025
  • Time: 09:00
  • Location: Aula Seminari - Istituto di Diritto Pubblico, CU002 - Edificio di Giurisprudenza - Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma

Curriculum

• a) Administrative Law
• b) Criminal Law and Procedure
• c) Law and Economics
• d) International and European Union Law
• e) Constitutional Law, General Public Law, and Comparative Public Law

Department and Staff

• Department: Studi giuridici ed economici
• Coordinator: Francesco Bilancia
• Staff: Davide Perrone
• School: Scuola di dottorato in Scienze giuridiche