Doctor of Laws (PhD)
Full Program or Fast Track Doctoral Degree for high achievers with a global mindset: 100% online, flexible, and compatible with your career.
Full Program or Fast Track Doctoral Degree for high achievers with a global mindset: 100% online, flexible, and compatible with your career.
Master legal research, corporate governance and compliance leadership.
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2-6 Semesters
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60-180 Credit Points
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PhD in Law
The doctoral degree is awarded by our state-recognized partner university.
Both routes lead to the same degree. The difference: how much is credited - and how fast you finish.
FULL PROGRAM
The Complete Journey
Study just eight units from the ground up – the right choice if you are starting fresh.
Duration: 6 semesters
Tuition: full program fee
FAST TRACK
Credit for What You Bring
Prior studies, certifications, and work experience are credited – assessed before enrollment.
Duration: from 2 semesters
Tuition: customized program fee
Ten power units take you from your research proposal to your public defense: methodology and doctoral examinations, empirical publication and international conference work, academic lecturing – and the dissertation that establishes you as an independent researcher. You choose your dissertation topic yourself, guided by your research interests and your professional field: there is no fixed catalogue of topics. Rigorous, international, and built for your career – discover what's inside:
Research Proposal
Where the doctorate begins. A 50-page proposal setting out your research question, its position in the literature and the method you will use – developed with your supervisor, written by you. The document your admission and your dissertation are both built on.
Requirements: Research proposal, 50 pages
Methodology of Scientific Research
The methodological foundation of everything that follows. A written scholarly work on research methodology, presented and defended before the examination commission.
Requirements: Written methodology paper | Presentation before the examination commission
Doctoral Examinations in the Field of Research
Two examinations on the theoretical foundation of your dissertation topic, set individually for your research. Each combines a written and an oral part in a single session.
Requirements: Two subject examinations | Written and oral part combined in one session each
Peer-Reviewed Empirical Publications
Three empirical articles in peer-reviewed journals – your own data, your own analysis, judged by reviewers who do not know you. We place your work: journal selection and the submission process run through ONSITES Graduate School.
Requirements: Three empirical articles in peer-reviewed journals
International Conference Contributions
Three international conferences, each with your own presentation and a paper in the conference proceedings. We arrange the conferences: you present, you are questioned, and the work appears in print.
Requirements: Three conference presentations | Three papers published in conference proceedings
Academic Lecturing
Nothing tests command of a subject like explaining it. Guest lectures and seminar sessions in the bachelor's and master's programs of ONSITES Graduate School, together with the supervision of student research.
Requirements: Guest lectures and seminar sessions | Supervision of student research
English Language Proficiency Examination
Scientific English is the working language of your field. A formal examination of your written and spoken command at the level a doctoral researcher publishes and presents in.
Requirements: English language proficiency examination
Doctoral Dissertation
The work itself. 150 to 180 pages developed from your proposal – the independent contribution to your field that the entire program has been building toward.
Requirements: Doctoral dissertation, 150 to 180 pages
Autoreferat
The formal summary of your dissertation: research question, method, findings and contribution, compressed into the document that circulates before your defense.
Requirements: Autoreferat
Public Defense
The final step. You present your work in public and defend it before the commission – questions on your method, on your findings, and on every choice you made along the way.
Requirements: Public defense before the doctoral commission
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With the PhD in Law, you qualify for the jobs the top of the legal world is hiring for – in corporate legal leadership, compliance and governance, and legal education. Discover your career opportunities and lead the legal function at the very top.
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