Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic within the European Union, located in Southern Europe. To the north, it borders France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia along the Alps.

A PhD in Law program provides students with foundational knowledge of the field of law and how to expand upon it as a topic of research and academic study. Rather than focusing on the application of law to other fields, this type of program focuses on the study of legal systems and educating future scholars.