Welcome to the Doctorate Program in Law and Economics
Today´s legal and economic challenges require a careful approach to the fields of law, economics, and the regulatory framework of operation for our social and economic model. This broad field of study is characterized by increasingly complex and specialized knowledge, and research focused on developing the academic, intellectual, and technical skills required to master the areas pertaining to Law and Economics, and follows a specific set of training activities which have been tailored to the program´s particular areas of interest.
The PhD in Law and Economics unfolds alongside a variety of Areas of Research focused on issues and aspects of particular concern and significance to 21st Century societies and markets. Trainee researchers will perform research work in one of these fields of study, with the goal of developing the skills, abilities, and technical and scientific production knowledge required to successfully complete and defend a Doctoral Dissertation.
Exit profile of PhD students in Law and Economics Programme
In today's society, where the knowledge economy has become one of the axes on which everything else revolves, obtaining a doctorate degree has revealed itself as a differential element of intellectual and professional performance. Attention to detail, knowing how to look at things with different eyes, teamwork and the perseverance inherent to doctoral research constitute added values in any organization.
Although the traditional exit of a doctor has been, and continues to be, joining the university faculty, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and participating in research teams, the doctorate has progressively acquired greater relevance and recognition in the business and professional environment, given the high level of skills it seeks. Thus, the ability to, on the one hand, carry out critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas and, on the other hand, to devise or put into practice research or creation processes, facilitates the tasks of inquiry and analysis of the environment. legal and economic in all its facets. And, in particular, it provides training in the design of advisory and defense strategies, the preparation of risk analyzes and the preparation of evaluations of markets, organizations and complex situations.
Doctoral training is, therefore, a plus for access and promotion to legal advice and the business or civil service environment, as it implies a high specialization valued in all of them. The special knowledge and application of the ideas raised and acquired opens the doors to professions or managerial and responsible positions that connect the academic and scientific community with the social and business reality, such as management or advisory committees, consultative or decision-making bodies. in international and national legislative development or councils of professional and business organizations.
Agreements, collaborations and program chairs
The CEU International Doctoral School (CEINDO) and the Doctorate Program in Law and Economics establish collaborations, regulated or not through agreements, with other national and international universities, organizations or institutions that facilitate inter-university cooperation and the internationalization of the program.
You can consult the agreements and collaborations by clicking on the following link (in spanish).