The Legal System of the Vatican City State

Between Secular and Canon Law
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-98106-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Law and Religion

This book examines one of the fundamental phenomena in jurisprudence, Legal Transplants (reception of law), the study of which allows us both to determine the relationships between various legal systems and between civil law and other normative systems. Taking the Vatican City State as a case study, the work explores the theoretical and practical significance of canon law in the legal system. It analyses the sources of law and how it is applied in practice, especially in the jurisprudence of the Vatican courts and other bodies applying the law. The characteristic feature of this transplantation of law is the borrowing, by the legislative and judicial authorities of the State, of various norms: both of a strictly religious nature and those arising from the law of the Italian Republic, the European Union, the norms of international law, and their creative use to produce a distinct system of law. It is this creative use that constitutes the essence of the reception of law in the Vatican City State. The book determines similarities and differences between the reception of law in the Vatican City State and other examples of reception of law, including the implementation of European Union law by individual Member States; the relationship between the reference by the Vatican legislator to the axiological foundations of the legal order and the role of legal principles in secular legislation; how the confessional character of the Vatican City State affects the content of legal norms applicable in the State and whether this mechanism can be applied in secular states. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Law and Religion, Canon Law and Legal Philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dyda, Konrad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Staat und Kirche, Religions- und Kirchenrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the author

List of abbreviations

Legal tables

Introduction

1 Canon law and the nature of the Vatican City State

2 Canon law as the basis of the Vatican’s legal order

3 Significance of canon law in the reception of Italian law

4 The role of canon law vs. the influence of international law on the Vatican legal order

5 Determining the content of a legal norm and its application by competent bodies – from the Church’s teaching to positive law

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Konrad Dyda is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He works as an attorney-at-law and is also the founder and president of the Medical Rights Foundation.