Vol. 14 No. 2 (2025)

In this second issue of 2025, ||civilistica.com carries on its purpose of bringing to its readers the most up-to-date studies on relevant topics in contemporary civil law, with particular emphasis on the necessary criticisms directed at Senate Bill No. 4/2025, which proposes a "reform" of the Brazilian Civil Code, allegedly for the purpose of "updating" it, but which is concerning due to its scope and scope of content. In this issue, readers will find studies that criticize, for example, the treatment of legal assets and subjective legal situations in the reform bill (especially in the field of so-called "digital law"), proposals regarding more beneficial treatment for "vulnerable" heirs in inheritance law, flaws in the approach to controversies surrounding the right to be forgotten, and the legal uncertainties that tend to arise in matters of division of inheritance during lifetime, the requirements for succession arrangements, among several other topics. The journal remains true to its commitment to providing a space for the (more than necessary) ongoing critique of legislative, jurisdictional, and even doctrinal activities in Brazilian legal practice, confident that this is the most important function of legal scholarship in a democratic constitutional order. We wish you a pleasant read!