A «new», finalistic and pluralistic State. Giuseppe Dossetti and the Catholic University, between fascism and democracy [UNO STATO «NUOVO», FINALISTICO E PLURALISTICO Giuseppe Dossetti e l’Università Cattolica tra fascismo e democrazia]

The contribution aims to shed light on the development of Giuseppe Dossetti’s fundamental ideas during his years of intellectual training at the Catholic University of Milan. Dossetti’s thinking during the years spent at the Catholic University has yet to be studied. This has prevented a full and deeper understanding of Dossetti’s legal-publicist path that culminated in the work of the Constituent Assembly, when he coordinated the Christian Democrat group in the First Subcommittee. In light of the unpublished sources that have been collected in the Archives of the Catholic University, the aim is to underline the importance of the thought of some young scholars and professors who, at the turn of the 1930s and 1940s, attended the Faculty of Law, including Giuseppe Dossetti, Antonio Amorth and Balladore Pallieri, and to clarify the unique and specific contribution of the school of public law at the Catholic University in the transition between the end of the fascist regime and the new democratic system.