Private Law: Sources and Principles

This paper provides an introduction to the main features of Italian private law in the perspective of the present role of Jurisprudence and of the crisis of the principle of hierarchy of sources that has been eroded by the principles of competence and of subsidiarity. We have still no a strict hierarchy of sources of law. We have a multilevel protection of rights and judges try to govern such a complexity by applying ordinary laws, according to community legislation and to constitution, integrated by regulations and customary law.