The PhD in Global Studies. Institutions, Rights, Democracy (GS) is firmly grounded on the scientific conviction that certain sets of problems dealing with the complexities of our societies and present-day time should be investigated with the advantage of a number of academic approaches, only one point of view being insufficient to tackle the depth and intricacy of these issues. For this reason, the topics within the programme are selected for being at the intersection of several branches of study.
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GS’s scientific board is highly interdisciplinary and international: the executive board, headed by Benedetta Barbisan, a comparative constitutional lawyer based at the University of Macerata and at Georgetown as a Visiting Professor of Law, is composed of members from a variety of disciplines and countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States), flanked by a scientific board made of internationally distinguished scholars such as:
- Giuliano Amato (Italian Constitutional Court, former Vice-President of the European Convention, former Italian Prime Minister)
- Richard Bellamy (Max Weber Programme, European University Institute)
- Guido Calabresi (Yale Law School)
- Ana Marta Guillen Rodriguez (Universidad de Oviedo)
- Vicki Jackson (Harvard Law School)
- Mattias Kumm (Berlin Social Science Centre; NYU School of Law)
- Christopher McCrudden (Queen’s University Belfast; Michigan Law School)
- Isabelle Pingel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- Marco Roscini (Westminster University)
- Antoon Vandevelde (KU Leuven)
- Armin von Bogdandy (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law – Heidelberg)
ADMISSION
Candidates will be admitted to the interview when a very good evaluation according to these criteria is achieved:
- evaluation of the master’s degree’s consistency with the PhD programme;
- evaluation of the CV;
- evaluation of the project statement’s quality, creativity and impact;
- language proficiency
Interview will be conducted and assessed according to these criteria:
- discussion with the candidate on the CV;
- discussion with the candidate on the project statement’s quality, creativity and impact;
- English language proficiency as emerged during the interview;
- motivation
GS ACTIVITIES
Alberico Gentili Lectures (AGL)
The «Alberico Gentili Lectures» (AGL) is an annual appointment, held between March and April, involving distinguished academics, judges and leaders from all over the world delivering three unprecedented lectures about law in the broadest sense.
The lectures are entitled to Alberico Gentili, a protestant dissident who, in the late Sixteenth century, escaped from Macerata and from the religious persecution he had been suffering with his family and ended up holding a chair at Oxford as one of the first European scholars in public international law. His experience as a refugee because of his religious diversity inspired this series of lectures in such a way that both guests involved in the AGL and the topics they deal with aim at emphasizing the propelling value of «being different» for the development of a career and for a human experience. This is why, between the lectures, guests make themselves available for a conversation-interview about their life and career, discussing when and why they felt «different» and how this affected their human and professional journey.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
GS is aimed at educating skilled researchers capable of applying their scholarly experience in professional environments where the scientific ability to address complex matters is needed. Although the natural destination of this programme is the academia, GS commits itself to train new generations of scholars whose analytical and critical armamentary is valuable also to institutions, think-tanks, NGOs, groups of interests. Our ultimate aspiration is to raise a class of intellectuals and researchers combining a top-notch scientific background with a strong engagement in facing present-day challenges.