After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

• explain the principles of functioning of financial activity of the state and public self-administration and principles of its legal regulation;
• interpret and apply the norms of the given area of Financial Law and the Financial Law as a whole;
• consider independently the Financial Law de lege late, particularly in response to the formation and realization of financial policy of the state;
• involve in international communication with professional workplaces and formation of international scientific research teams in the areas of Financial Law;
• participate solidly in publication activity at national and international level in the issue of Financial Law;
• work didactically in the areas of Financial Law.

The graduates are profiled for profession of a scietific research worker and for professions where independent creative thinking in the areas of Financial Law is expected, thus including the legislative work, application practice in financial administration, methodological conduct and didactics in law.

The student creates the study plan from the offer of the required and selective courses within the study programme Theoretical Legal Science, the field of study Financial Law and Financial Science, thus according to description of the study plan and in compliance with regulations and instructions related to the study. In compliance with assumed theme of his/her doctoral thesis the student may include in his/her study plan also courses from the offer of the study plans of other fields of study and alternatively of other programmes in order to achieve the required minimum number of ECTS credits for completion of the doctoral study.

The student who succesfully completed all courses of the study plan and reached the minimum number of ECTS credits for admission to the state doctoral examination, duly files an application to pass this examination and submits theses of his/her doctoral thesis for defence. The state doctoral examination consists of the problem scope of the science of Financial Law and current state of legal regulation of public financial activity including the crucial judicature and application practice of financial administration, particularly in relation to the theme of doctoral thesis. The defence of theses of the doctoral thesis takes place after passing the oral part of the state examination. Theses are drawn up by the postgraduate student independently according to instructions of his/her supervisor. The defence of theses does not take place in case when the student submitted an application to the state doctoral examination along with the doctoral thesis. After the successful state doctoral examination follows the defence of theses. The defence is to prove the ability of the postgraduate student to draw up the doctoral thesis on a given topic. After drawing up the doctoral thesis and its handover the student will apply for its defence. The statement of supervisor will be attached to the doctoral thesis and then the thesis is referred for consideration by internal and external opponents who will evaluate the doctoral thesis in a standard way in their thesis report and suggest at least two problem scopes for debate. The student submits the abstract for defence, the list of his/her publication activity, these results will be submitted by the student to the examination board for consultation, and the student prepares presentation for introduction of the doctoral thesis and for debate. The study is properly completed by the successful defence of the doctoral thesis.

There is no follow-up study programme to this study.