The PhD program in “Law and Social Change” 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.
The following is a tentative, non-exhaustive list of research areas that are suitable to be developed in the context of the PhD course in “Law and Social Change”:
- Transnational legal theory and interlegality
- Legal pluralism and fundamental rights
- European constitutional pluralism
- Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Rights
- 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
- Transnational Digital Platforms: Public and Private Law Issues
- Transnational IP law
- Global administrative law
- Reducing the Impact of Climate Change: International and European Regulatory Strategies
- Transnational Environmental Law
- International and European protection of social rights in a time of global crises
- Global Health Law and the Post-Pandemic
- Human rights, migrations, multiculturalism
- Digital transformation: regulatory issues
- Economic Crises and Global Regulation
- Transnational data sharing for scientific purposes
- Algorithmic decision-making and the law
- Corporate Prosecution and Compliance Programs: transnational perspectives
- Corporate social responsibility and human rights
- On-line dispute resolution in cross-border litigation
- Representative actions and collective interests
- Global crises and contractual governance
- Artificial intelligence and criminal law
- Criminal law and transnational crime
For further information: Link identifier #identifier__48000-1stefano.passera@uniroma3.it