PhD in
PhD in Law NOVA School of Law
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Program Outcome
The main goal of the Program is to provide advanced training to promote state-of-the-art academic research. In the process, the program prepares the next generation of highly-qualified legal professionals to enter the market ready to face the challenges of our time and pursue a career in academia. As well as fostering knowledge creation across all legal disciplines, the program encourages an interdisciplinary and international approach to legal studies. It familiarises candidates with new technologies and research techniques, promotes team-based research and collaboration in all fields of the law, and creates networking opportunities with other national and international academic institutions.
Curriculum
1st Semester
Mandatory
- Law & Society (Legal History/ Sociology/ Anthropology/ Legal Theory)
- Methodologies of Legal Analysis (Legal Writing/ Law, Science, and Technology/ Law & Economics)
Elective
- Criminal Law
- International Law
- European Law
- Direito Público
- Private Law
- Law, Politics & Security
2nd Semester
Mandatory
- Methodology of Legal Research
- Scientific Publication
- SPEED Presentation
3rd Semester
Mandatory
- Discussion of the Thesis Project
Elective
- Attendance of any NOVA Doctoral School courses
4th to 8th Semesters
Mandatory
- Ph.D. Thesis
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NOVA University’s Doctoral School is available to our doctoral candidates. Aimed at the university’s Ph.D. students and their supervisors, its purposes are:
- Contribute to the excellence of doctoral training at NOVA;
- Provide cross-disciplinary and complementary training to Ph.D. candidates and their supervisors;
- Promote interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research;
- Share best practices in doctoral programs;
- Foster cross-institutional cooperation at both national and international levels;
- Encourage research collaboration between students and professors at NOVA.
Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
Merit Awards
Merit Awards are awarded to:
- Candidates whose final average admission to the 3rd cycle of studies at NOVA School of Law, according to assessment and ranking by the appropriate jury, is equal to or higher than 70 points (on a scale of 0/100) and who enroll and attend this study cycle at NOVA School of Law, benefit from an award in cash corresponding to 50% of the tuition fee for the taught component of the Doctorate.
In the non-taught phase, three prizes for academic merit are awarded (by master’s degree or area of specialization, in the case of the Master’s Degree in Law). These awards assume the completion of the taught component within the stipulated time.
- The best student of the taught component who continues and attends the non-taught phase benefits from an award in cash corresponding to 100% of the tuition fee paid, corresponding to the non-taught phase of the Ph.D., if the average is equal to or greater than 18 points (on a scale of 0/20);
- The second- best student of the taught component who continues and attends the non-taught phase, or the two best students, if the 1st does not achieve an average of 18 or more, benefits from an award in cash corresponding to 60% of the tuition fee paid, corresponding to the non-taught phase of the Doctorate;
- The third-best student of the taught component who continues and attends the non-taught phase benefits from an award in cash corresponding to 40% of the tuition fee, corresponding to the non-taught phase of the Ph.D.