Editor's letter
The distinction between Law and Politics is a basic problem that will never receive a final answer. This issue of REVISTA DIREITO GV presents a group of ar ticles on the juridification of politics and on judicial rationality that contributes to the on going debate on this question. This issue also presents ar ticles on Indian law, Labor Law in China, Banking Regulation in Germany, German Cr iminal Law, ICM and Law & Literature.
The first group of ar ticles studies the relation between Law and Politics both from an internal and an external point of view. The articles investigate the problem of the separation of powers, the cur rent design of the judiciary and the activity of judges as a source of Law.
Reading them all together one realizes the problems they elaborate on are in dispute. There is not a closed set of answers for them, only a series of arguments in contradiction. The Brazilian tradition of Law research is only begging to see itself as a champ to debate and not as set of asser tions based on the "truth" of the Law. This collection wants to contribute to deepen this recent trend.
Two previous issues of this Law journal published articles on themes related to Law and Politics. REVISTA DIREITO GV v.4 n.2 and v.5 n.1 were respectively about the future of Brazilian Constitution and about cases solved by the Brazilian Supreme Court. I recommend the reading of these articles together with the current issue.
We nominally thank the authors for their interest in this journal : Marcelo Pereira de Mello, Delton R. Soares Meirelles, Ernani Carvalho, Natália Leitão, Claudio Weber Abramo, Fernando Horta Tavares, Iara Antunes de Souza, Isaac Espíndola Vitorino Ferreira, Tiago Vieira Bontempo, Gustavo Vitorino Cardoso, José Marcos Domingues e Júlia Silva Araújo Carneiro.
The other articles were written by Violeta Refkalefsky Loureiro, Gayle Allard, Marie-José Garot, Roberto Chacon de Albuquerque, Nereu José Giacomolli, Pablo Rodrigo Alflen da Silva, Rafael Brum Silva, Luís Satie. We also thank all of them.
In this issue we also published the book reviews by Nelise Dias Vieira, about A responsabilidade civil do fornecedor de produtos pelos riscos de desenvolvimento (Marcelo Junqueira Calixto), and by Gabriel Gualano de Godoy, about Le droit saisi par la photographie (Bernard Edelman).
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I dedicate this issue of REVISTA DIREITO GV to Professor Ary Oswaldo Mattos Filho - DIREITO GV's Dean since its foundation - that decided to develop other activities from now on. Without his suppor t this journal would never have reached the degree of autonomy and editorial freedom it has today. That is why this Editor thanks Prof. Ary for his firm belief in intellectual excellence above all other goals and values.
Enjoy your reading!
The Editor
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
28 Mar 2011 -
Date of issue
Dec 2010
