Students and Examinations Office

Law - Doctoral Studies

Who is eligible for doctoral studies at the faculty of law of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen?

The usual prerequisite is a degree in law, having passed the first examination in law with honours ("fully satisfactory") or better.

If you fulfill these requirements you can apply online:

Interne Bewerber/innen (bei Antragstellung in Göttingen eingeschrieben)

Externe Bewerber/innen (nicht an der Universität Göttingen immatrikuliert)

External applicants (not enrolled at the University of Göttingen)

Graduates, who do not fulfill the requiremens, might apply for the following exemptions:


  • Exemption from honours law degree: § 3 (2) Doctoral Regulations

    • Attachments:



  • Application regarding § 4 (1) Doctoral Regulations: A degree from another faculty at Master level with honours (equivalent to the grade "fully satisfactory")
    In this case you should present a ranking which confirms that you belong to the best 30 percent of your cohort of graduates.

    • Attachments:

    • Application letter
      • hier
    • Confirmation of Supervisor
    • Hochschulzugangsberechtigung (Abiturzeugnis/Secondary School degree
    • Academic certificates/University degrees>
    • Ranking
    • Seminar grades if available



  • Application regarding § 4 (2) Doctoral Regulations: Acceptance of the equivalence of a Bachelor or Master degree from a foreign university and a Master degree from a German university provided that the Master thesis has been graded at least "good (2.0)



Attachments:

  • Application letter
    • example.
  • Supervisor's agreement
  • Master certificate
  • Bachelor certificate



The applications must be addressed to the Faculty Council who meets three times during the lecture period of each semester. The deadline for the submission of your application is a week before the meeting

If you are interested in the Master programme for foreign graduates you will find information here:



The next step after the admission as a doctoral student is a supervision agreement between you, your supervisor and a second professor.
Your supervisor will suggest the second professor. Upon the Dean's consent, the supervision agreement must be signed by both professors and the student and sent to uhennemuth@jura.uni-goettingen.de or promotion@jura.uni-goettingen.de) The form can be downloaded from here.

To submit the dissertation and apply for the disputation, use this link.


Structured doctoral studies

The faculty of law, social sciences and economic faculty, as well as the faculty of agricultural sciences and the faculty for forestry and forest ecology are founding members of the Göttinger Graduiertenschule Gesellschaftswissenschaften (GGG), combining graduate training of the five faculties to permit graduates structured training of high technical quality and excellent support.
The GGG uses the wide technical range of its five founding faculties to make the doctoral students a wide offer of methods and interdisciplinary approaches, as well as a great number of disciplinary intensification options. One of these offers is the annual method week.
Within the GGG, there is the option of achieving one's doctorate in the doctoral course of studies Biodiversity and society" and the graduate college 1507 "Expert cultures of the 12th to 16th century".