Da Calamandrei. Nodi del diritto ecclesiastico

Piero Calamandrei has contributed in many different ways to the Italian scholarship, debate and reform in the area of law and religion and Church and State. This text is focused on the two key questions of 1) State sovereignty, especially vis-à-vis the sovereignty of the Catholic Church, and 2) freedoms and rights in the face of diversity of religious membership. Calamandrei’s approach will be first described and then analysed in the light of developments in Italian law and policy in the last 70 years.