Vol. 4 No. 2 (2015)

This issue of ||civilistica.com that we now present to the reader is opened with a homage to one of the greatest law specialists of our time: Stefano Rodotà. In Prof. Maria Celina Bodin de Moraes‘s Editorial, with the title “Stefano Rodotà: past, present and future”, the Professor of the University “La Sapienza” is presented to the public through a panorama of his work and his path, both in academic and private lives. For those who did not have the opportunity to attend the lectures that were given by Prof. Rodotà on November 6th and 7th at PUC-Rio and UERJ, we also bring, in the section Selected Videos, one of those speeches, with the title “Talks with Stefano Rodotà: solidarity and common goods”. In Contemporary Doctrine, this issue’s articles pass by various private law and theory of law subjects, namely: “Notes on the Civil Liability of the Liberal Professional”, by Maria Celina Bodin de Moraes and Gisela Sampaio da Cruz Guedes, “Legal Certainty, Judicial Precedent and Brazilian Civil Law: Jurisprudential Prospects”, by André Luiz Arnt Ramos and Eroulths Cortiano Júnior, “Positivist Traits of Pontes de Miranda’s Theories: Influences of Positivism on the Positivist Science System of Law and the Private Law Treaty – a Path with Many Theoretical Nuances”, by Andréa Aldrovandi, Rafael Lazzarotto Simioni and Wilson Engelmann, “Interesse legittimo e potestà: al di là della comprensione del diritto soggettivo”, by Thiago Luís Santos Sombra, “When Dying in the Counterflow no More Obstructs Traffic”, by  Maria Cláudia Cachapuz, “The Substantiation of a New Personality Right: the Right to Be Forgotten”, by Carlos José Cordeiro and Joaquim José de Paula Neto, “Functional Dimension of Moral Damage in Contemporary Private Law”, by Francisco Luciano Lima Rodrigues and Gésio de Lima Veras, “Post-Consumption Environmental Liability in Light of the Consumer Protection Code: Possibilities and Limitations”, by Danielle de Andrade Moreira, “Building the Right to Family Life of Children and Adolescents in Brazil: a Dialogue Between the Constitutional Norms and the Law n. 8.096/1990”, by Ana Carolina Brochado Teixeira and Marcelo de Mello Vieira and “Multi Parenting at the Succession Law: the Right to Inheritance from Biological and Affective Parents”, by Neiva Cristina de Araújo e Vanessa de Souza Rocha Barbosa. In Foreign Doctrine, we have the invited publication of “The Relation Between Constitution and Private Law: Their Consequences over the Interpretation and Application of the Argentinian Legal System”, by Mauricio Boretto and “Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron”, by Cass S. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler, this one also published in Portuguese (translation by Fernanda Cohen). In the Translations section there is still Prof. Rodotà’s presence, with the article “Why is an Internet Bill of Rights needed?”, in a Portuguese version done by Chiara de Teffé and Bernardo Accioli de Vasconcellos. In the Classics section, we recall San Tiago Dantas, with the article “Brazilian private law. General aspects of its evolution over the last fifty years”. While analysing jurisprudence, Andréia Fernandes de Almeida deals with the role of affectio maritalis in civil partnership configuration. In this issue, we have chosen to review the book “The civilization of spectacle”, by Mario Vargas Llosa, a review done by Vitor Almeida Júnior.