Contemporary Legal Theory In Brazilian Civil Law

CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK:

• The new Brazilian civil code at the historical moment of its publication
• Contract theory in the constitutional paradigm
• The concept and functions of contract
• The environmental function of contracts
• New frontiers of the obligation to indemnify and of the determination of civil liability
• Private property, social justice and substantive citizenship
• A demonstration of the social function of property as a presupposition for the grant of injunctive relief in possessory actions
• Family law and the crisis of autonomy of law on the cultural and human horizon of post-modern era
• Demythifying family relationships in the new civil Law