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Competition for doctoral students for the 2019/2020 academic year at the Institute for the State and the Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – full-time and part-time study

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Competition for doctoral students for the academic year 2019/2020 at the Institute for the State and the Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – full-time and part-time study, additional admission

Doctoral programmes: Number of doctoral students and form of study

Civil and Family Law: 1 part-time place

Commercial / Business Law: 1 full-time place

Legal Sociology. Legal Informatics: 1 full-time place

Administrative Law and Administrative Procedure: 1 full-time and 1 part-time place

International Law and International Relations: 1 full-time and 1 part-time place

Criminal Procedure: 1 part-time place

Date of announcement of the competition – 11 March 2020

Those wishing to take part in the competition must submit the following documents:

  1. 1. An 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. A curriculum vitae;

  3. 3. A diploma for the educational and qualification degree of "Master", specialty "Law", with its supplement, or a notarised copy of the diploma and the supplement, or a certificate of completed education;

  4. 4. A certificate of recognition of higher education, if the diploma was issued by a foreign higher education institution;

  5. 5. A medical certificate;

  6. 6. A certificate of no criminal record;

  7. 7. A list of publications (if any);

  8. A document certifying payment of a fee of BGN 30 (thirty) to the Training Centre of the BAS (Sofia, 125 Tsarigradsko Shose Blvd., 26B, 2nd floor, tel. 02/987 3167);

  9. A document certifying payment, by bank transfer, of a fee of BGN 30 (thirty) to the ISL at the 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 due to the Training Centre of the BAS into the ISL account!

  1. A declaration pursuant to § 5 of the Supplementary Provisions of Council of Ministers Decree No. 90 of 26 May 2000 - for candidates for full-time study only! (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 confirming 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 Street, 3rd floor, between 11.03.2020 and 08.05.2020. 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 18.05.2020.

The competitive examinations in the specialty will be held at the Institute for the State and the Law (Sofia, 4 Serdika Street) from 15 to 19 June 2020, and the foreign language examinations at the Training Centre of the BAS, from 22 to 26 June 2020.

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.