Le stagioni del diritto privato: dalla pluralità delle fonti all’unicità del sistema italo-europeo. Frantumi di una difficile armonizzazione

In the present era, the interpreter’s role in identifying the legal rule to be ap plied to a concrete case is of paramount importance. In fact, the legal practitioner must become accustomed to navigating a nuanced hermeneutic landscape, which is further complicated by the emergence of new and diverse interests and the proliferation of normative sources on the Italian legal landscape. These sources continuously enrich the catalogue referred to in Article 1 of the provisions on the law in general, approved as a preliminary to the Civil Code by Royal Decree No. 262 of 16 March 1942, subsequently relegated to a faded photograph of a bygone order. The advent of European law has undoubtedly transformed the way «civilists» think, necessitating a reexamination of traditional legal catego ries in an attempt to develop a shared European culture. In the context of the «new season of private law», it is therefore necessary to address the hermeneutic complexities introduced by the advent of EU law, utilising the constitutional mandate; that allows the jurist to investigate previously unconsidered profiles and identify innovative interpretative solutions.