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Each year, students at the Faculty of Law, at both master’s and doctoral levels, produce a large number of theses and dissertations. These theses and dissertations are the result of knowledge acquisition, academic thinking, research, and communication. Moreover, the process of guidance and feedback from experience provided by advisors and examiners further enriches the students’ research. Therefore, it may be said that writing a thesis or dissertation requires significant dedication and effort from the students.
The graduate studies programmes of the Faculty of Law have established a systematic process for preparing thesis and dissertation outlines. In the process of writing a thesis, students must present their outline, following advice and recommendations of their faculty advisor, to the thesis outline examination committee, which will then announce the result of the examination to the student. The committee’s decision will fall into one of three categories: ‘passed without revisions’, ‘passed with revisions’, or ‘not passed’.
Once students have completed their thesis or dissertation, they must submit it to request an oral thesis defence. After passing the oral defence examination, students must make revisions based on the recommendations and suggestions provided by the examination committee, to be completed within a specified timeframe set by the committee, under the supervision of their faculty advisor. The thesis or dissertation will then be finalised in its bound form.
To assist in checking for thesis or dissertation topics that have already been completed, and to create a database of thesis topics, the graduate studies programmes of the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, initiated a project led by Assistant Professor Dr. Surasak Maneesorn to collect student thesis and dissertation topics from 17 educational institutions in Thailand, covering both Master of Laws and Doctor of Laws programmes. This compilation of thesis and dissertation topics not only helps students find suitable topics but also serves as a channel to disseminate legal theses and dissertations to the public.



