EDITOR'S LETTER

This first issue of DIREITO GV LAW REVIEW in 2013 publishes articles on various subjects, for example, the role of the Supreme Court and of high courts in Latin America and the Caribbean, the subject of the first five texts.

There are also articles on international law, environment law, violence, the origins of human cooperation, shared custody, rural contracts and philosophy of law. This issue also includes two reviews of the books Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, and International Law for Humankind: Towards a New Jus Gentium, by A. A. Cançado Trindade.

I highlight the originality in addressing the subjects carried out by the texts published in this issue. Most of them are concerned with relating theoretical concepts and empirical material in various forms. I will not summarize the content of all texts in this Letter. I mention as an example the compelling argumentation of Siddharta Legale Ferreira and Eric Baracho Dore Fernandes in "The Brazilian Federal Supreme Court underVictor Nunes Leal, Moreira Alves and Gilmar Mendes", which seeks to organize the recent history of the Brazilian Supreme Court focusing on judges considered central to different eras.

Deserves to be highlighted also the research by Luciano Da Ros "Difficult hierarchy: the Supreme Federal Tribunal's evaluation by the Lower Judges of the Brazilian Judiciary", which investigated the opinion of the Brazilian lower judges on the Supreme Court with the use of surveys and other sources. I would also highlight the text "Collateral costs of violence in Brazil: how insecurity is shaping the development of Brazilian Law", by Diego Werneck Arguelhes and Mariana Pargendler, that seeks to open new perspectives for thinking about the topic of violence.

The next issue of DIREITO GV Law REVIEW will publish the result of 2013 call for papers, that aimed to evaluate the performance of the Brazilian National Council of Justice.

Enjoy your reading!

The Editor

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  18 Oct 2013
• Date of issue
  June 2013