18 Feb. - 18 Mar. 2025
PhD courses
High quality PhD courses with the aim of establishing an active research environment.
Courses offered by the Phd school are announced in the planned courses web calendar.
The PhD school organizes a introductory course to all newly enrolled PhD students once in the beginning of every semester. Please read more here.
A career as a researcher is also a career as an educator. Therefore, a pedagogical course is a mandatory part of your doctoral programme. The course is titled ‘Learning principles at the faculty’ or ‘Læringsprincipper på fakultetet’ (in Danish)’. The course is organised by the Study Services and is held before semester start. For more information about the course, please contact the Study Services (didaktik@jur.ku.dk).
The Faculty of Law, together with the PhD School and individual research centres, offer high quality PhD courses with the aim of establishing an active research environment that meets international standards and contributes to an attractive educational environment for PhD students.
The amount of course activity in which the PhD student shall participate has been rated as approx. 30 ECTS points.
The PhD Committee approves PhD courses and ensures their quality and continuous evaluation.
The PhD School participates in the Danish Legal Research Education Programme which offers a wide variety of courses relevant for PhD students within the field of law. It also offers a database of all current PhD students enrolled at the Danish JurForsk institutions as well as a newsletter function. For further information, please visit www.jurforsk.dk.
JurforskNordic.org:
This website (hosted by the Danish Legal Research Education Programme, JurForsk) offers a platform for announcing PhD courses, conferences and seminars to Nordic PhD students in law. It is supported by a large number of Nordic institutions and offers a newsletter function. For further information, please visit www.jurforsknordic.org.
The PhD student may sign up for generic courses offered by the PhD school at the Faculty of Law or by any other PhD School at the University of Copenhagen. Further information about generic courses can be found at the web pages of each PhD School.
PhD students can apply for ECTS points for attending other courses and conferences according to the guidelines adopted by the PhD Committee. Enrolled PhD students can find these guidelines on the intranet.
To apply for ECTS points please use this application form.
Obligatory PhD roundtable seminars are conducted within the framework of the individual research centers at the faculty. They aim to better integrate PhD students in the activities of the faculty’s research centers. Additionally, the PhD roundtables provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their research projects to colleagues who possess professional expertise in the specific area of law as well as to other academic scholars who wish to participate in the roundtable seminars.
The roundtables are mandatory for PhD students. The PhD roundtables should run for at least one hour. The presentation of the PhD project takes place within the first six months of PhD studies and satisfies the obligation under §4.4.3 of the PhD Regulations.
Following their participation in a PhD roundtable seminar, the PhD student should include information regarding such participation in their first status report after the seminar. Additionally, subsequent to their presentation at a PhD roundtable, the PhD student must submit a one-page report to the head of the PhD School elaborating to what extent s/he considers the feedback they received from other participants as being valuable for the purposes of his/her continued research activities.
The schedule of PhD roundtables that will take place in individual research centers is available on the webpages of the PhD School and the relevant research centers.
The roundtable seminars are planned by the PhD student and are announced at https://jura.ku.dk/phd/
Presenting your research project at the roundtable seminar grants 1 ECTS point.
The University provides students with the opportunity to undertake language courses, mainly in Danish and English
The courses are offered by Studieskolen and the Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP).