Admission and enrollment

The following documents are usually required for an application for admission to doctoral studies or for an application:

Tabular curriculum vitae
List of all publications to date
Exposé or research proposal (according to § 4 paragraph 2 PromO)
Letter of supervision (endorsement and binding declaration of acceptance of the duties of a supervisor)
Certificate of the First State Examination in Law or equivalent foreign diploma
Transcript or Records (Translated to German or English)
Two seminar certificates (passed with at least "vollbefriedigend")
Supervision agreement between doctoral candidate and supervisor (§ 6 paragraph 5 sentence 2 PromO)
Further important documents can be found here

The application is to be submitted via the online tool Docata - https://docata.uni-hamburg.de - if all documents are complete.

Information on registration, admission and enrollment via the online tool Docata can be found at:

All formal questions are regulated in the doctoral regulations - Promotionsordnung - of the faculty.

The Service for Students at the CampusCenter is responsible for enrollment.