Università Roma Tre

CONTENTS

The course focuses on the hermeneutics of canon law. The internal dynamics of canon law will be analyzed both in terms of its historical evolution as well as its normative semantics. The architecture of canon law alongside its effective articulations will be viewed as open processes towards the achievement the Church’s ends – foremost among them ‘salus animarum’. Furthermore, the constitutive elements of canon law will be constantly examined from an anthropological point of view and compared with the assumptions and unfolding of secular legal experience: in this regard, special attention will be paid to multilevel legal systems with their respective typologies of judicial legislative review of legislation. Using canon law—and its projections on a planetary scale through the centuries—as a kind of mirror, the course aims to provide students with a critical approach to analyzing the erosion of state-national circuits of legal experience as a consequence of globalization processes.

SUGGESTED COURSE TEXTS

The suggested reference texts are all five of the following essays:

S. Berlingò, La tipicità dell'ordinamento canonico (nel raffronto con gli altri ordinamenti e nell'« economia » del « diritto divino rivelato »), in IUS ECCLESIAE, 1(1), 1989, p. 95-155. Available at https://www.iusecclesiae.it/article/view/221/1487

C. Fantappiè, Diritto canonico interdisciplinare. Spunti per un rinnovamento epistemologico, in IUS CANONICUM / VOL. 60 / 2020 / [1-26], p. 479-504. Available at https://dadun.unav.edu/bitstream/10171/65044/2/rhereder%2c%20Fantappiè%20italiano.pdf

G. Lo Castro, Basi antropologiche del diritto canonico, in IUS ECCLESIAE, 21(1), 2009, p. 35-47. Available at: https://www.iusecclesiae.it/article/view/1712/301

E. Baura, La realtà disciplinata quale criterio interpretativo giuridico della legge. Il discorso di Benedetto XVI alla Rota romana del 21 gennaio 2012, 1-9, available at http://baura.pusc.it/files/interpretazione%20discorso%202012.pdf . Benedict XVI's speech, related to E. Baura's essay, can be found in IUS ECCLESIAE, 24(3), 2012, p. 701-717, at http://baura.pusc.it/files/interpretazione%20discorso%202012.pdf

M. Ricca – T. Sbriccoli, Shylock del Bengala. Debiti migratori, vite in ostaggio e diritto d’asilo. (Un approccio corologico-interculturale alle implicazioni anti-umanitarie del patto commissorio), in Calumet – Intercultural Law and Humanities Review, 2, 2016, p. 1-58. Available at: https://calumet-review.com/index.php/it/2016/06/10/shylock-del-bengala-debiti-migratori-vite-in-ostaggio-e-diritto-dasilo-un-approccio-corologico-interculturale-alle-implicazioni-anti-umanitarie-del-patto-commissorio/