L'interpretazione autentica delle leggi universali della Chiesa

This work illustrates the institution of the authentic interpretations of the universal laws of the Church, currently under the responsability of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts. After analysis of the function of the interpretative law, the elaborate ranks the twenty-nine authentic interpretation dates following the promulgation of the Code of Canon Law of 1983 within the specified category mentioned in can. 16, § 2 (declaratio, explicatio, coarctatio and extensio legis). The method that inspires the attempt to classify the responses is that of the so-called "legal realism", which leads to overcoming the positivist view of canon law and sees in the solution of an doubt of law the ideal remedy to protect, rediscover and strenghten the "rationabilitas" of the law interpreted.