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Additional competition for doctoral students for the 2018/2019 academic year at the Institute for the State and the Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Published on

2019

Ban Sgrada

Doctoral programmes: Number of doctoral students and form of study

Civil and Family Law – 1 part-time
Business / Commercial Law – 1 full-time
Legal Sociology – 1 full-time and 1 part-time
Administrative Law and Administrative Procedure – 1 full-time and 1 part-time
International Law and International Relations – 1 full-time and 1 part-time
Criminal Procedure – 1 full-time

Date of announcement of the competition – 8 March 2019 (State Gazette, No 20).

Those wishing to participate in the competition must submit the following documents:

  1. 1. Application addressed to the Director of the Institute for the State and the Law (the ISL template may also be used) – stating the doctoral programme, the form of study and the foreign language in which the candidate will sit the examination; (Download the template HERE)
  2. 2. Curriculum vitae;
  3. 3. Diploma for the educational and qualification degree of “Master”, specialty “Law”, together with its supplement, or a notarised copy of the diploma and the supplement, or a certificate of completed education;
  4. 4. Certificate of recognition of higher education, if the diploma was issued by a foreign higher education institution;
  5. 5. Medical certificate;
  6. 6. Criminal record certificate;
  7. 7. List of publications (if any);
  8. 8. Proof of payment of a fee of BGN 30 (thirty) to the BAS Training Centre (Sofia, 125 Tsarigradsko Shose Blvd, Block 26B, 2nd floor, tel. 02/987 3167);
  9. 9. Proof of payment by bank transfer of a fee of BGN 30 (thirty) to the ISL-BAS:

Institute for the State and the Law, BAS

UniCredit Bulbank, Batenberg branch – Sofia

IBAN: BG46 UNCR 9660 3119 9026 14

BIC: UNCRBGSF

Please do not pay the fee to the BAS Training Centre into the ISL account!

  1. 10. Declaration pursuant to § 5 of the Supplementary Provisions of Decree of the Council of Ministers No 90 of 26.05.2000 - only for candidates for full-time study! (Download the template HERE)

11. Other documents at the candidate’s discretion, without notarisation.

Candidates without diplomas shall submit a certificate from the higher education institution attesting completed education, which must state the average grade from the course of study and the grade from the state examination.

Documents are to be submitted to the registry of the Institute for the State and the Law – Sofia, 4 Serdika Str., 3rd floor, between 12.03.2019 and 10.05.2019. For enquiries: Ms Svetlana Kutsovska, tel. 02/987 4902, 0878 891135.

All candidates will be notified in writing of their admission (or of the refusal to admit them to the competition and the reasons for it) by 23.05.2019.

The competition examinations in the specialty will be held at the Institute for the State and the Law (Sofia, 4 Serdika Str.) in the period from 17 to 21 June 2019, and the foreign language examinations at the BAS Training Centre, from 24 to 28 June 2019.

The examination in the specialty is written and oral, with separate grades, and is usually held on a single day. Candidates who obtain a grade of at least Very Good 4.50 in the written examination are admitted to the oral examination. Candidates who have passed the examination successfully are those who have obtained an average grade from the written and oral examinations in the specialty of no less than Very Good 5.00 and, in a foreign language, of no less than Good 4.00.