Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014)

This issue of ||civilistica.com is entirely devoted to comparative law. In the Editorial Note, by Prof. Maria Celina Bodin de Moraes, as well as in Prof. Richard Hyland‘s article, proximities and distances between civil law and common law are discussed. The notion of precedent is discussed in the article by Prof. Michele Taruffo. The article by Prof. Rodolfo Sacco investigates the treatment given to possession and property by various families of legal systems. Prof. Inmaculada Vivas-Tesón talks about the treatment of informed consent in an international perspective, whereas Prof. Maria Celina Bodin de Moraes‘ article discusses the protection of the human person in the Brazilian system, in comparison with the Italian law. In Classics, one can find the work that was responsible for the configuration of private law in France and, consequently, in the other countries of Roman-Germanic tradition: Les Loix Civiles dans leur ordre naturel, by Jean Domat. The reader will still find works on the civil liability of physiotherapists (by Gabriel Furtado), the reparation for the so-called positive interest in contract non-fulfillment (by Felipe Sztajnbok), the protection of privacy (by Kelly Baião and Kalline Gonçalves) and child and adolescent’s law (by Thaís Sêco). In jurisprudence commentary, finally, there is a study combining the invalidity of juridical transactions and the theory of venire contra factum proprium, by Marcelo Dickstein. Have a good reading!