Influenced by the writings of outstanding contemporaries in the field of music history, Adler abandoned law; he wrote a dissertation on Western music before 1600 and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1880.
Her dissertation, "International Law and the Use of Force by National Liberation Movements," published in 1988, proved a fitting backdrop for jobs as an arms-control negotiator with NATO and on the National Security Council staff of the first Bush administration.
While serving in government, Rouhani continued his academic work, earning a Ph.D. from Glasgow Caledonian University in 1999 with a dissertation on Islamic law.
(A friend of mine who's both a DJ and a law student is currently doing dissertation research in Jamaica looking at the "fluid" – a euphemism – notion of copyright in dancehall culture).
The second law became the subject of his doctoral dissertation at Munich, and it lay at the core of the researches that led him to discover the quantum of action, now known as Planck's constant h, in 1900.
He earned his law doctorate in 1889 by writing a dissertation on legal history titled Development of the Principle of Joint Liability and the Separate Fund in the Public Trading Company out of Household and Trade Communities in Italian Cities.
He had finished everything but his dissertation before deciding to go to law school instead.
New York State law already "bans the sale or purchase of dissertations and term papers but does not specifically indicate that papers obtained over the Internet or other electronic media are covered, as well.
"Let it be known," Adams wrote in his "Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law," which, as McCullough says, was a good deal more inflammatory than the musty title implied, "that British liberties are not the grants of princes".
After finishing my dissertation, with a year of part-time law school behind me, I searched for postdoc opportunities with the challenging, investigatory character of bench work provided but without the bench.
