Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017)

This issue of ||civilistica.com that we now present to the reader is opened with an instigating contemporary reflexion by Prof. Maria Celina Bodin de Moraes on the role of prescription in the matter of damagens for ‘pain and suffering’ in Brazil, with the Editorial Note “Prescrição, efetividade dos direitos e danos morais”. In National Doctrine, the papers that compose this first number of 2017 go through the various areas of private law, namely: “A Functional View of the Invalidity of Legal Acts: Proposition towards the Modulation of Effects in Invalid Acts”, by Eduardo Nunes de Souza; “Human Existentiality: Legal Acts in the Postmodern View”, by Ana Paula Ruiz Silveira Lêdo, Isabela Cristina Sabo and Ana Cláudia Corrêa Zuin Mattos do Amaral; “The Legal Rights Conceptions of Hans Kelsen and Alf Ross”, by Daniel Brantes Ferreira and Pedro Henrique Veiga Chrismann; “Mitigation of Damages under Brazilian Law: Quid Est et Quo Vadat?”, by André Luiz Arnt Ramos and João Pedro Kostin Felipe de Natividade; “Illicit and Harmful Interference: Possibility of Overlapping and Needlessness of Coexistence for Setting the Abnormal Use of Property”, by Everaldo Augusto Cambler and Andrea Lupo; “The Issue of Performance of the Preliminary Contract: Sketch of Systematization under the Civil-constitutional Approach”, by Antonio dos Reis Júnior; “Hidden Risks in Real Estate Transactions and the Principle of Concentration”, by Breno de Andrade Zoehler Santa Helena; “The Current Relevance of Compensatory Maintenance in Brazil”, by Cora Cristina Ramos Barros Costa and Fabíola Albuquerque Lôbo; “Law n. 13.058/2014 and the Possibility of One Parent Opting Not to Exercise the Joint Custody of the Child in the Light of the Principle of the Best Interest of the Child and Adolescent”, by Ana Paula Motta Costa and Rodrigo Freitas Paixão; “Active Legitimacy of the Successors and the Spouse or Surviving Partner for the Impetration of Habeas Data in the Light of the Preservation of the Privacy of the Deceased”; by Régis Gurgel do Amaral Jereissati and Eduardo Rocha Dias; and, still, “The Hormonal Therapy in Teenagers Diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria as a Reflex of the Right to Personality’s Development”, by Ana Paola de Castro e Lins and Joyceane Bezerra de Menezes. In Foreign Doctrine, we now publish “Regulation of ‘Rights’ and ‘Property’ in the New Civil and Commercial Code of Argentina”, by Mauricio Boretto; and “The Exceptio Non Adimpleti Contractus in the French Civil Code Reform: Analysis of the Limits of the Exception”, by Carlos Alberto Chinchilla Imbett. Analysing jurisprudence, we have Francisco de Assis Viégas, examining the practice of different prices according to the methods of payment in consumer’s law and, still, Livia Teixeira Leal analysing the issue of civil registry in relation to biological and socio-affective parenthood. In this issue, we have chosen to review “Bons costumes no direito civil brasileiro”, by Thamis Dalsenter, a work done by Eduardo Nunes de Souza. In Selected Videos, we recommend the TED by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “We should all be feminists”, as well as an interview with Prof. Stefano Rodotà about his book “Diritto d’Amore”. Finally, as recommended links, we suggest the videos of the Public Hearing about the Right to Be Forgotten that has taken place in the Brazilian Supreme Court in 2017.

Have a nice reading!