20 verified law scholarships & phd positions for 2026–2027 are open right now, concentrated in France and Netherlands. The soonest deadline is 2 November 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by University of Amsterdam, Albanian University and Campus France. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
Albanian University · AL
Albanian University in Tirana offers scholarships and fee reductions across its health sciences, law, business and engineering programmes for domestic and international students. The scholarships page lists the current calls, criteria and application steps for each academic year.
Durham University · United Kingdom
Durham's Inspiring Excellence Scholarships are merit awards for international students applying to taught master's programmes. Awards are considered alongside your course application, so the practical deadline is the admission round of your chosen programme, with values and eligibility listed on Durham's scholarships page.
Campus France · France
France Excellence Eiffel Scholarship 2027: French government funding for top international students - €1,181/month at master's level, €1,700/month at PhD level, plus travel and insurance. Institutions submit by 6 January 2027.
EMILDAI Consortium (Avignon Université) · France
EMILDAI sits at the crossroads of law, data protection and AI, offered by six partner universities led from Avignon. Applications for the 2027/2029 editions open in November 2026; the previous round closed on 25 January 2026, a date the new cycle is expected to mirror.
University of Leeds · United Kingdom
The University of Leeds, as part of the ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership, offers a range of social science PhD studentships for 2027/28 entry. Open to UK and international applicants. Covers fees at UKRI rates plus a maintenance grant of £21,805 (2026/27 rate). Multiple award types available: +3.5, +3.75, and 1+3.5. Deadline: 20 January 2027.
European University Institute · Italy
EUI Special Doctoral Fellowships 2027: named fellowships (Adam Smith, Burckhardt, Kelsen, Arendt) funding PhD study in Florence with a EUR 1,650 monthly grant. Deadline 15 January 2027 (14:00 CET).
Hamad Bin Khalifa University · Qatar
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, part of Qatar Foundation's Education City in Doha, offers funded master's and PhD programmes across computing, law, sustainability, health and engineering colleges. Its admissions portal lists priority and final rounds for each intake, with generous scholarship packages for admitted students.
ILSPSD Consortium · France
ILSPSD is an Erasmus Mundus master in the international law of security, peace and sustainable development, and its second intake (2027-2029) is now open with the scholarship deadline on 4 January 2027. Self-funded applicants get until 31 March 2027, which makes this one of the more flexible law-focused Mundus options this cycle.
JANUS Consortium (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) · France
JANUS is the Erasmus Mundus master in security and defence coordinated from Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, with mandatory mobility between Lyon and Beirut Saint-Joseph and options in Granada, Bucharest and Essex. The first cohort's applications closed on 6 March 2026, and the 2027-2029 round is expected to follow the same early-March pattern.
Union University School of Law, Belgrade · Serbia
LAWGID is a one-year LL.M. in Law and Gender, Intersectionality and Diversity hosted at the Union University School of Law in Belgrade. The programme trains lawyers and social-science graduates to work on gender-sensitive legal reform, anti-discrimination practice and equality bodies across Europe and beyond.
MAiSI Consortium (KU Leuven) · Belgium
MAiSI is the Erasmus Mundus master in sports ethics and integrity coordinated through KU Leuven, preparing the next generation of integrity officers, safeguarding leads and anti-doping specialists. Applications for the 2027 intake opened on 8 October 2026, with the scholarship deadline on 1 February 2027 and later self-funded windows in April and July.
MIPDaL Consortium · Spain
MIPDaL trains practitioners in international public diplomacy and law with a multi-round admission calendar: the scholarship and early-bird round has historically closed on 15 January, followed by windows in March and June. The 2027 cycle is expected to keep the same structure.
NOHA Network (University of Groningen) · Netherlands
NOHA is the Erasmus Mundus joint master in international humanitarian action, coordinated from the University of Groningen through the NOHA network. For the 2027 intake the Erasmus Mundus scholarship deadline is 15 December 2026 at 23:59 GMT, while the central application deadline for all ordinary candidates is 1 April 2027 and non-EU applicants have until 1 July 2027.
University of Amsterdam · Netherlands
The University of Amsterdam invites applications for a PhD candidate in access, actors and accountability, studying the role of researchers in AI governance. The project examines how knowledge produced by researchers enters AI governance processes, which actors gain access to regulatory arenas, and how accountability arrangements shape whose expertise counts when AI systems are governed.
University of Amsterdam · Netherlands
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) advertises a PhD position in political science on militarization and democratic erosion in Latin America. The project examines how the expanding role of armed forces in public life - from public security to infrastructure and emergency governance - interacts with the quality of democratic institutions across Latin American countries, combining comparative analysis, country cases and where relevant quantitative measures of militarization and democratic performance.
Lund University invites applications for a doctoral student position in Technology and Society within the MSCA REGULAIRE doctoral network. The project studies regulatory learning and supervisory competence in the implementation of the EU AI Act, examining how supervisory authorities build the knowledge, routines and organisational capacity needed to govern artificial intelligence.
University of Amsterdam · Netherlands
The University of Amsterdam invites applications for a PhD candidate in systemic actors and the enforcement of digital rules. The project studies how the enforcement of European digital regulation, including the Digital Services Act and the GDPR, is organised across systemic actors such as platforms, regulators, civil society and auditors, and what makes enforcement effective and accountable.
SEDarc · United Kingdom
SEDarc offers ESRC-funded PhD studentships for September 2027 entry across six universities in South East England. Open to UK and international students, covering UK home fees and stipend. Three studentships are ring-fenced for widening participation candidates. Deadline: 29 January 2027. 29 January is the final shortlisted submission stage; prospective applicants must meet earlier departmental or university deadlines.
University of Lucerne · Switzerland
The University of Lucerne advertises 100% salaried doctoral researcher positions through its HR vacancy pages. Each advertisement specifies the faculty, the project, the supervisor, the contract conditions and the fixed closing date, so applicants should read the posting carefully before preparing documents.
University of Luxembourg · Luxembourg
Yadias is the University of Luxembourg's online application portal for bachelor's, master's and doctoral admissions. Because Luxembourg's tuition is low and doctoral positions are salaried, the practical financial question is admission itself — programme-specific deadlines appear inside Yadias as you select your study programme.