PhD in Law in Aarhus - Denmark

The PhD programme in Law covers all theses with law as main content. This includes all important legal disciplines in Danish law, EU law and international law. The researchers at the Department of Law is organised in 7 teaching groups:

• Law of property
• Constitutional and administrative law
• General jurisprudence and legal history
• Tax law
• EU law and international law
• Business law
• Criminal law

All the legal research environments in Denmark work together on offering PhD courses in Law.

• The department employs approximately 70 academic and 15 administrative members of staff, approximately 25 PhD students and a number of part-time lecturers, who are typically lawyers from private and public organisations. Professor Tine Sommer is the head of department.
• The Department of Law is part of the faculty of Aarhus BSS, which is an accredited business school (AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS) at Aarhus University.
• The department offers two Bachelor’s degree programmes and two Master’s degree programmes - and a number of legal continuing and further education programmes.
• The Department of Law participates in a number of Nordic and international networks which also offer PhD courses. These networks will normally also provide an opportunity for the exchange of PhD students, so that the PhD students at the department can visit these foreign institutions for a period of time during their studies.