The Faculty of Law offers one postgraduate programme conducted in English laguage as of the academic year 2025/2026 (“the English Programme”). 

The English Programme is accredited for a standard four-year period of study which means that students are expected to fulfil all their study duties within this timeframe.

Doctoral students progress in their studies accordingly to the Individual Study Plan (ISP) created in cooperation with their supervisor at the beginning of first academic year.

Basic obligations prescribed for all Ph.D. candidates within the English Programme are as follows:

• Introduction to Law from the Perspective of Central Europe

(1st year / winter semester, code: HD127)

The course introduces students not only to the Czech legal order and its principles, but also to the basics of the legal order and core legal principles of other European countries especially those neighbouring the Czech Republic.

• Academic Writing

(1st year / summer semester, code: HD119)

Block of seminars guaranteed by the faculty´s interdisciplinary Centre for Legal Skills offered by the end of the winter semester and beginning of the summer semester in the 1st year of study. The seminar is focused on the methodology of law and other related research and specificity of writing within the academic domain of law. The course is completed by passing a colloquium.

• Examination in one of the following languages:  

Foreign Language Exam (contacts for the lecturers of respective languages)

a. German (code: HD113)
b. French (code: HD114)
c. Italian (code: HD117)
d. Spanish (code: HD116)
e. Russian (code: HD115)

• Discussion on the Topic of the Disertation (code: HD364)

A discussion of the current state of preparation of the dissertation, its methodology, and preliminary research findings before an examination committee, department members, doctoral students and the public, for the purpose of obtaining feedback and maintaining focus of doctoral students' activities in individual programs. It loosely follows on from the course “Academic Writing".

• Other Obligatory ISP Items (description of demanded publications, attendance of conferences and foreign internships)

Postgraduate students are expected to join research projects under their supervisor´s lead, attend conferences and to develop their publishing activities.

• Defence of Dissertation (code: HD999)

Publication of a partial output of the dissertation research is required. That means at least one publication within the topic of a student´s dissertation. It is possible to use publisher´s confirmation of the intent to publish the whole dissertation.