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Curriculum Doctoral Program Business Law 2009 (pdf, 69 KB)
Curriculum change 2018 (valid for students who started their doctoral studies between the summer semesters 2018 and 2019) (pdf, 97 KB)
Curriculum change 2019 (valid for students who started their doctoral studies in winter semester 2019/20 or later) (pdf, 210 KB)

Students who began their studies in the summer semester 2018 or later have to submit their Research Proposal and Dissertation Agreement within the first year of their studies.

In the course of the program, you attend five seminars and write a dissertation.

Courses/Examinations	ECTS	weekly hours
Research Seminar in the dissertation subject I (Private Law including Civil Procedure or Austrian and European Public Law or Tax Law or Labour and Social Security Law or Criminal Law or European and International Law)	6	2
Research Seminar in Legal Methods	6	2
Research Seminar in the dissertation subject II	6	2
Research Proposal	6	-
Research Seminar in a further legal subject (which has not been chosen as dissertation subject)	6	2
Research Seminar in a further subject (seminar in one of the subjects offered at WU which has not been chosen as dissertation subject or further legal subject)	6	2
After the dissertation has been graded: Defensio Dissertationis	6	-

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Doctoral Program in Business Law

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