Overview

What you'll study

The PhD program in Law and Social Change - The Challenges of Transnational Regulation at Roma Tre University considers applications from candidates that are willing to undertake a high-level research on any topic related to the several challenges that the law faces in the contemporary world – preferably, but not exclusively, with a view to the transnational dimension of such challenges and of the legal strategies that are necessary to face them.
The PhD program encourages ground-breaking research that places the legal culture, and the various processes of law-making and law application, at the crossroads between the municipal and the transnational dimensions of law – as well as between the public and the private, the substantive and the procedural, and the formal and the informal dimensions of law.

Programme Structure

Research areas include:

Transnational legal theory and interlegality
Legal pluralism and fundamental rights
European constitutional pluralism
Transnational judicial dialogue and the use of comparative and foreign law in courts
Global constitutionalism, the internationalization of constitutional law, the constitutionalization of international law
Transnational law and comparative legal history
Legal transplants and legal irritants
Local revolutions and global legal change: historical and theoretical perspectives

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-10-01 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Roma, Italy

Disciplines

Legal Studies Public Policy View 4 other PhDs in Public Policy in Italy

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

The preliminary evaluation of the candidates will be based on the following:

Grades of Bachelor and Master’s degree
CV including professional and academic history
Publications, if any
Original research project written in English, of maximum 14,000 characters, spaces included, bibliography included, related to the doctoral dissertation that the applicant wishes to carry out during the JDP and preferentially coherent with one of the lines of research of the Program
2 Letters of reference (either to be included in the application or sent directly by the referee to the secretary of the Program)

A limited number of students will be admitted to the oral interview (to be held either in presence or on one of the main digital platforms, such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, etc.).

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Tuition Fees

Living costs

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Italy

850 - 1450 EUR / month

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