The course is an introduction to the general issues of Canon Law. It covers, through the main legal and historical notions of canon law, the understanding of the main characteristics about the Curch and her juridical system with particoular reference to the current legislation.
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The course focuses on the hermeneutics of canon law and the analysis of its internal dynamics from a twofold perspective: respectively historical-evolutive and normogenetic. The architecture and articulation of canon law experience will be intended in as an open process of r of the Church's constitutive ends – foremost among them ‘salus animarum’. Furthemore, the constitutive elements of canon law will be constantly examined from an anthropological perspective and in comparison with the assumptions and the unfolding of secular legal experience, with particular reference to multilevel legal systems endowed with various kind of judicial review of legislation. The entire course aims to provide students, in the mirror of canon law and its projections on a planetary scale through the centuries, with a critical approach to analyze the erosion phenomena produced by globalization processes at the expense of state-national circuits of legal experience.
Judith Hahn, Foundations of a Sociology of Canon Law. Cham, Springer, 2022.
(OPEN ACESS at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-01791-9)
Programme
COURSE PROGRAM - CONTENTSThe course focuses on the hermeneutics of canon law and the analysis of its internal dynamics from a twofold perspective: respectively historical-evolutive and normogenetic. The architecture and articulation of canon law experience will be intended in as an open process of r of the Church's constitutive ends – foremost among them ‘salus animarum’. Furthemore, the constitutive elements of canon law will be constantly examined from an anthropological perspective and in comparison with the assumptions and the unfolding of secular legal experience, with particular reference to multilevel legal systems endowed with various kind of judicial review of legislation. The entire course aims to provide students, in the mirror of canon law and its projections on a planetary scale through the centuries, with a critical approach to analyze the erosion phenomena produced by globalization processes at the expense of state-national circuits of legal experience.
Core Documentation
REFERENCE TEXTS:Judith Hahn, Foundations of a Sociology of Canon Law. Cham, Springer, 2022.
(OPEN ACESS at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-01791-9)
Type of evaluation
EVALUATION CRITERIA The course comprises of frontal lessons supplemented by sessions dedicated to the dialectic discussions on practical cases. 1. The knowledge and understanding ability of the students will be tested by at least two oral examination questions concerning the structure and the dynamics of canon law and its epistemological foundations with particular reference to the profiles of comparison with secular legal systems. 2. The ability to articulate a theoretical-constructive understanding of the experience of canon law and to analyze practical cases in comparison with both legal dynamics and the methodology extant in the circuits of secular legal experience. The ability to communicate will be judged according to the performance of the activities described above and its quality. 3. Learning skills will be assessed on the basis of the attitude shown by the student to use in a dynamic and creative way the concepts learned during the course and through the study of the texts. 4. The exams take place in presence except in the cases in which the university regulation allows for the remote examination. 5. It will be possible to take intermediate tests. The evaluation criteria will be the same as those applied for the final tests.