Short Notes on the International Status of Sovereign Order of Malta under International Law. Functional Limits and Dependence upon the Holy See in the light of the New Constitution of 3 September 2022

SUMMARY: 1. Introduction - 2. The SMOM self-qualification as full member of the international community: critical notes 3. nature and scope legal subjectivity 4. non-relevance canonical status relationship with Holy See for 5. Conclusions.
 ABSTRACT: presence Order Malta (acronym SMOM) on scene, because its singularity, has been subject debate discussion among scholars law well canon law. In fact, SMOM’s juridical subjection to a Catholic Religious Institute is point under traditional theory that seems be inconsistent Order’s subjectivity. aim this study out that, using broad modern notion subjectivity, there no incompatibility between membership in community.