According to § 5 of the doctorate bylaw, suitable Graduate Studies will support the doctorate students while acquiring their legal doctorate. They can participate in these studies voluntarily.

The Graduate School provides a doctorate workshop for legal doctorate students every winter semester. The doctorate workshop serves as a platform for discussion, support and exchange of experience regarding overall challenges, problems and techniques. However, it does not help with the subject-specific consideration of an individual doctoral thesis. The latter stays assigned to the students' supervisors and self-networking.

Every summer semester there will be a lecture series aiming to impart knowledge to the doctorate students regarding the importance and methods of basic subjects as part of an otherwise non-basics-related dissertation and to strengthen those basics' status. These lectures are especially supposed to reveal to the doctorate students when a recourse to the relevant methods is necessary and when it would be unrewarding because of limited resources or minor benefit. When is it appropriate to include a "chapter" on legal history, legal economy, legal theory or legal philosophy within a doctorate thesis or at least to take these aspects into consideration and which requirements are imposed thereon? For example, when does it make sense to provide a monography dealing with current law with a historic instruction and if yes, is it e.g. necessary to analyse primary sources?

These offers are rounded by doctoral seminars held by individual faculty members wihin their supervised fields.

Every doctorate student and everyone interested in acquiring a legal doctorate in Bonn is welcome!

An application is not necessary.