Vol. 4 No. 1 (2015)

The current issue of ||civilistica.com celebrates its new label by Capes’s Qualis as an A2 Law Review, which reflects the growth of a project steered by respect towards plurality, stimulus to dialogue, and continuous interchange between researchers of both national and foreign institutions. With this philosophy, we start our ninth issue with Prof. Maria Celina Bodin de Moraes’s editorial on the right of grandparents to visit their grandchildren and its possible limitations in favour of the minor. In national doctrine, we offer the reader contents of varied thematic, passing by consumer protection, with Ghisi and Pezzalla’s work on the treatment of consumers’ personal data and the system of Crediscore, by property law, with Terra and Guedes’s article on fiduciary alienation of immovable property as security, by biolaw, with Martinez and Belo’s study on personality rights in terminal patients, by the general theory of civil law, with Menezes’s analysis on the recent modifications in Brazil’s law protecting people with disabilities, and by Souza’s paper on controversial aspects of subjective legal situations. Lastly, we present Silva and Simioni’s article, which broaches the transversal theme of legitimacy of legal decision. In contemporary foreign doctrine, we are honoured by the contribution of Nuno Manuel Pinto Oliveira (on the sources of law) and Isa Filipa António de Souza (on the right to homoparental co-adoption), both Portuguese researchers. We have also the joy of sharing with the readers the studies of some invited doctrine: from England, Professor Ori J. Herstein’s article A legal right to do legal wrong; and, from Spain, Professor Tomás Prieto Álvarez’s article La intervención del Estado en la libertad individual: liberalismo, paternalismo, bien común. In the Classics section, we pay tribute to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, whose portrait became civilistica’s logo, as he was the creator of Oratio de Hominis Dignitate, of which we bring an excerpt in Italian for our readers. Furthermore, we also bring Clóvis Beviláqua’s pioneer text on Constitution and the Civil Code. In the Legal Opinion section, we present once again a contract law lecture given by our eternal professor, Caio Mário da Silva Pereira. While analysing jurisprudence, Paula Moura Francesconi de Lemos Pereira deals with newborn protection on a case which involves the loss of chance and the use of umbilical cord stem cells, judged by the Brazilian Superior Court STJ (Recurso Especial 1291247/RJ). In this first 2015 edition, we have selected to review Do Erro à Culpa na Responsabilidade Civil do Médico: estudo na perspectiva civil-constitucional (published by Renovar Ed., 2015), by Eduardo Nunes de Souza. In our selected videos section we present a debate between the philosophers Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault concerning human nature, and the Andrew Solomon lecture in which he broaches the studies that resulted in his book, also recommended, Far From the Three: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (published in Brazil by Companhia das Letras, 2013), in which the researcher recognizes and examines the existence of two types of identity: vertical identity and horizontal identity. We also recommend, in a certain way opposing to Solomon’s lecture – in which he defends the respect between parents and children – the documentary A Morte Inventada, concerning the baffling thematic of parental alienation and its resulting tragedies, and a trailer of this important work from director Alan Minas. Enjoy your reading!