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Faculty of Law

Research at the Faculty of Law

The Faculty of Law of the University of Lapland is the leading research unit in Law in northern Finland. Our research community Northern Legal Lights – ULapland Legal Research Community combines basic and multidisciplinary research on various legal streams of research. Furthermore, the thematic multidisciplinary research group Law, Technology and Sustainability Transitions operates within the faculty.

In our research and development activities, we tap into regional, national and international networks. We are actively engaged in several international research networks, editorial boards of international scientific journals, and international publishing activities.

Northern Legal Lights – ULapland Legal Research Community

Law, Technology and Sustainability Transition research group

Apply for doctoral studies

Make your study plan

Your application should be appended with a personal study plan. When making your plan, comply with the requirements of the doctoral programme under consideration (Law Faculty's own programme or the Graduate School's The Arctic in a Changing World programme). In each programme, you can take courses from the Graduate School's offer and from other programmes.

If you have already agreed on supervising, complete the supervising agreement.

Structure of a doctoral degree

The doctoral degree contains 180 study credits (ECTS). This considerable amount of work is divided into sections: the doctoral dissertation constitutes 150 credits, and studies constitute altogether 30 credits.

Write your research plan

To apply for the right to pursue doctoral studies, you need a research plan. The research plan must include a schedule and information on funding. We have developed a research plan template based on the Academy of Finland's research plan structure. If you wish, you can also use a different template, but please make sure that your research plan contains all relevant information.

In your application, much value is placed on the quality of your research plan. Therefore, it is wise to discuss your plan – and refine it based on feedback – beforehand with a potential supervisor.