Introduction

In the current sociocultural context, the historical problem of the role of Christianity in the formation of the common legal tradition of the Western world is inescapable. In liberal democratic societies, as well as in supranational institutions inspired by the principles of democracy and human rights, such a premise nevertheless leaves open a way of communication between the sphere of religion and conscience and the dimension of law: this way passes through the dynamics of democracy and rights to freedom. In the current geopolitical context, the processes of globalization coexist with forces emerging from cultural and religious pluralism. Even legal history has a role in the process of building up a common home for humanity and a global law. The selection of jurists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was thornier and more difficult.