Art. 1 - Assignment of the thesis
Art. 2 - Assignment of the thesis in discontinued subject matter
Art. 3 - Drafting and delivery of the thesis
Art. 4 - Sessions of graduation by electronic means
Art. 5 - Evaluation of the thesis
Art. 6 - Awarding of honors and counterproposals
Art. 7 - Composition and work of the degree committee
Art. 8 - Conduct of the graduation session and proclamation of the graduates
Art. 9 - Shooting of photographs
1. Every student enrolled in the Master's Degree Program in Law, as of the beginning of the academic year corresponding to his or her fourth year of the program, has the right to obtain a thesis assignment within the scope of a teaching included in the course itself.
2. Any student enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Legal Services, as of the beginning of the academic year corresponding to his second year of the course, shall be entitled to obtain the thesis assignment within the framework of a teaching included in the course itself.
3. The right to the thesis assignment is also granted to students who, regardless of the academic year of enrollment, still have to take no more than five examinations for the attainment of a master's degree or no more than three examinations for the attainment of a bachelor's degree.
4. Assignment of the thesis is agreed upon between student and lecturer on the basis of an interview between the two. The subject chosen by the student must be among those already successfully taken by him/her.
5. The lecturer, after ascertaining through the database of thesis assignments that the student has not already obtained another assignment, agrees with the student on the title of the thesis, after which the same lecturer will fill out the appropriate form (www.giurisprudenza.unimore.it/formtesi...), from which the following data should be shown:
(a) first name last name and matriculation number of the undergraduate student;
(b) degree course;
(c) the chosen subject;
(d) the faculty member in charge of the subject who will act as the supervisor (together with the name, if any, of the expert in the subject who will actually follow the student until the final draft of the paper);
(e) the title of the thesis;
(f) the day of assignment of the thesis.
6. Each lecturer is required to accept for each academic year a number of thesis requests corresponding to the number of cfu of the subject of which he or she is the holder, and in any case not exceeding a total of 10 theses per lecturer. Acceptance of a number of theses exceeding the above criterion is optional on the part of the lecturer, who in no case may accept an annual number of theses double the number of cfu. Any other reason for refusal to accept thesis requests other than numerical should be made explicit to the student and, if necessary, justified in writing and communicated to the Director.
7. A student who decides to write the thesis in a subject other than the one already assigned must inform the thesis teacher at the time requested, who must inform the Director and as well as the teacher of the new assignment. The latter may proceed to fill out a new form only after ensuring that the teacher of the original request has been informed of the thesis change.
1. If the thesis has been assigned in a subject whose teaching ceases to be activated before the graduation examination, the student retains the right to his or her assigned thesis.
2. If the lecturer of the ceased subject is no longer available, the thesis will be taken by the lecturer of a related subject identified by the Director.
1. The application for the Master of Laws degree must be submitted through the Esse3 portal. The theses, written from the beginning in digital format, must be uploaded to the same portal within the peremptory deadline of twelve days prior to the date of the final exam. Thereafter, they will be deposited in the University electronic archive UniMoreTesi, according to the procedures and guidelines published on the University portal.
2. The thesis for the Bachelor of Science in Legal Services shall be written in digital format and shall consist of a paper of at least 60,000 characters and no more than 100,000 characters (including spaces). It must be uploaded in its final version to esse3 at least 12 days before the graduation session. The lecturer, who will be notified by e-mail, will have 48 hours to approve or reject the paper through the appropriate function on esse3.
1. In exceptional cases, graduation sessions may be held electronically. Undergraduates should be informed in a timely manner of the relevant arrangements and in particular of the platform to be used.
1. The final graduation grade shall be expressed in one hundredth of a second. The minimum passing grade is 66/110. The evaluation of the Graduation Committee shall take into consideration the curriculum, the paper and the discussion.
2. The thesis written by the student of the Master of Science in Law degree program - consisting of a paper that with methodological rigor, adequate technical preparation and exhaustive bibliographical information deepens a topic or addresses a problem - is placed in one of the following classes of merit, in accordance with these criteria:
a. theses that do not go beyond a correct development of the topic, articulated through the examination of sources and literature on the subject: increase of up to two points in the graduation grade, determined on the basis of the weighted average
(rounded up for approximation) achieved by the student by passing the exams;
b. theses that, in addition to what is provided for level (a), highlight a special commitment of the candidate and an organic treatment of the subject: increase of up to four points in the graduation grade, determined on the basis of the weighted average (rounded by approximation) achieved by the student with passing exams;
c. theses that, in addition to what is provided for levels (a) and (b), actually contain original contributions and provide a comprehensive, fully formally correct and stylistically appreciable outline of the topic: increase of up to six points in the graduation grade, determined on the basis of the average (rounded for approximation) achieved by the student with passing examinations.
3. The thesis written by the student in the Bachelor of Science in Legal Services program - consisting of a paper that with methodological rigor, technical preparation and sufficient bibliographical information delves into a topic or addresses an issue - is placed in one of the following classes of merit, in accordance with these criteria:
a. thesis articulated on a correct development of the topic, which diligently considers the sources and literature on the subject: increase of up to three points in the graduation grade, determined on the basis of the average (rounded for approximation) achieved by the student by passing the exams;
b. theses that, in addition to what is provided for level (a), reveal a special commitment of the candidate, highlight an organic treatment of the topic, or contain original contributions: increase of up to five points in the graduation grade, determined according to the average (rounded to the nearest approximation) achieved by the student with passing exams.
4. Candidates in the Bachelor of Law degree program who are graduating in progress are awarded a two-point increase in the graduation grade, as determined above; candidates in the Bachelor of Law degree program who are graduating in progress are awarded a one-point increase in the graduation grade, as determined above.
5. An additional point increase in the graduation grade, as determined above, shall be awarded to candidates who have written a significant part of the thesis abroad as part of the Erasmus project.
6. An additional point in increase of the graduation grade, as determined above, may be requested by the supervising professor for the candidate who has written and discussed the thesis in English in a subject delivered in that language.
7. one bonus point awarded to all those who serve as representatives and have participated in training and meet the requirements under the “Empowerment Project”.
8. In no case shall an increase in points be allowed outside of what is determined in this article.
1. Honors may be awarded unanimously to candidates who have attained a grade of 110/110 points and achieved particularly outstanding results both in the curriculum of studies and in the development and discussion of the thesis.
2. Appointment of the co-awarder is required for the awarding of honors.
3. Appointment of the counterproponent is also required when the thesis advisor considers that the paper meets the criteria stipulated in subparagraph (c) of Art. 6(2) (for the master's degree) and subparagraph (b) of Art. 6(3) (for the bachelor's degree).
4. The appointment shall be requested from the Director of the Department at least twenty-one days before the beginning of the session. The Director shall appoint the counter-reporter preferably from among faculty members of a different, but related and/or consistent discipline with that on which the thesis is based.
5. The name of the counter-reporter shall be indicated in the Commission's appointment decree next to the name of the candidate and the thesis advisor.
1. The Graduate Commission is appointed by the Director and normally composed of five full members and at least one alternate member, pertaining to the Department. At least one of the commissioners must be a first-rank professor; of the other members, at least three must be first- or second-rank professors and researchers. The Commission is chaired by the first-rank professor appointed by the Director.
2. Adjunct professors serving the Department in the academic year concerned, and subject matter experts may also be members of the Commission.
3. The schedule of degree sessions and the respective Commissions shall be published on the Department's website at least five days before the beginning of each session.
4. At the end of each discussion and in accordance with the criteria established in Article 4, the Commission, in closed session, shall decide by majority vote on the score to be awarded to the candidate. It shall also deliberate on the scoring of the theses of the undergraduates of the Master's Degree in Law for the purpose of online accessibility, in compliance with the criteria established in Article 6.
5. The minutes, by the Secretary of the Commission, will be taken using the esse3 platform. The minutes thus generated will be signed by the President of the Commission in telematic mode on the same platform.
1. Undergraduates may enter the premises where the examination is being held and adjoining premises from the beginning of the graduation session. They may enter such premises and attend the discussion up to a maximum of twenty persons (in addition to the candidate), in silence and in strict observance of the rules of decorum and good manners, which, if violated, authorize the Chairman of the Commission to suspend the session.
2. At the end of the discussion and having established the score to be awarded to the candidate, the Chairman of the Commission shall notify the candidate of the result of the examination expressed in hundredths and, if it is positive, shall proclaim him/her “Doctor of Jurisprudence” or “Doctor of Legal Services Science.”
3. In case of a telematic session pursuant to Article 5, two connections will be provided. In the first one, the committee shall proceed to conduct interviews with the candidates. At the end of the interviews, the candidates are asked to disconnect and the lecturers will proceed to the discussion for scoring. In the second connection, proclamations will be made.
The links by which the sessions take place will be accessible only to the commissioners and candidates of the individual session.
1. Only the undergraduate's trusted professional photographer, previously identified on the basis of free choice among professionals accredited with the University, shall be allowed access to the University premises.
2. Video filming of the graduation session is not allowed.
1. These regulations shall come into effect with effect from the July 2025 graduation session of the Master's Degree Program in Law and the Bachelor's Degree Programin Legal Services Science.
2. Its full text is published on the Department's website.
3. Any changes or additions to the regulations must be approved by the Department Council and incorporated into this text.