The courts and the code. Legal osmosis between religion and law in the cultural framework of civil law systems -
SUMMARY: 1. The value of religious law in modern (and secular) states - 2. Religious rules and individual choices in Europe - 3. Religious law and the fields in which it can operate effectively - 4. The rules of religious courts in civil legal systems - 4.1 ... The direct referral to religious laws - 4.2. The pronounces of religious courts and its importance for faithful - 5. The development of Religious Arbitration Courts in Italy - 6. Does religious jurisdiction another side of religious freedom?
The author
* Professore ordinario di Diritto ecclesiastico e delle religioni nell’Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”; **professore a contratto nell’Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”; ***dottoranda di ricerca nell’Università degli Studi di Padova.
Notes
This draft was presented in occasion of the Conference “Law as Religion, Religion as Law” (Jerusalem, June 5th-7th, 2017), in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and organized by The Matz Institute for Research in Jewish Law, and The Aharon Barak Center for Interdisciplinary Legal Research. The paper was evaluated by the board of the Conference.