Vol. 14 No. 3 (2025)

In its final issue of 2025, a year marked by the beginning of the legislative process for the Civil Code reform project (PLS No. 4/2025), ||civilistica.com continues its purpose of providing a space for criticism of this worrying initiative from the Federal Senate. This issue presents studies that criticize the regression in excluding the spouse from the list of necessary heirs, the strangeness regarding the proposed discipline for renegotiation as a contractual remedy, the imprecision of the figure that the project calls "brain data," the insufficiency of the protection proposed for new family arrangements, among many other points of the project that raise perplexity. We also highlight a timely translation of a classic text by René Demogue, which helps to illustrate the long journey undertaken in the Romano-Germanic tradition to ensure that compensation and punishment were no longer confused. While navigating tortuous waters, at the mercy of the direction blown by legislative activity, civil law increasingly awakens to the indispensable anchoring provided by conceptual tradition and to the need for daily doctrinal criticism of normative production. May the coming year bring winds of prudence and resilience to Brazilian civil law. Wishing all our readers an excellent 2026 and a good reading!