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FOREIGN DOCTRINE
The Meaning of the Right to Social Security
Jef Van Langendonck

«Fetichisme de la Loi, Separation des Pouvoirs et Gouvernement des Juges». Tres Ideas-Fuerza para el Rechazo del Control Jurisdiccional de la Constitucionalidad de las Leyes en Francia (1789-1958)
Francisco Fernández Segado

Ciudadanía, Feminismo y Globalización
María Xosé Agra Romero


TRANSLATED DOCTRINE
The Rethorical Discourse of “Human Rights”
Raúl Zamorano Farías
Letícia Ludwig Möller e Josué Emílio Möller (translators)

The Equal-Treatment Principle in German Private Law
Jörg Neuner
Pedro Scherer de Mello Aleixo (translator)

The Social Rights in the Precedents of Italian Constitutional Court
Stefano Maria Cicconetti
Anderson V. Teixeira (translator)

The Constitutional Dimension of the Social State in Spain
Francisco Balaguer Callejón
Hugo César Araújo de Gusmão (translator)

NATIONAL DOCTRINE
Social-Environmental State of Law and the Solidarity Principle as its Legal and Constitutional Landmark
Tiago Fensterseifer

The American State-action Institute Opposed to the Horizontal Efficacy System Adopted by the Brazilian Constitution
Odilon Castello Borges Neto

The Identification of Quota-students Between the Right to Information and the Right to Non-discrimination of the Negative Kind. Reflexions on the Affirmative Action Programmes in Brazilian Public Universities
Marcos Augusto Maliska

Hermeneutic and Constitution: The Consequences of the (Undully) Segmentation on Easy Cases and Hard Cases in Law
Lenio Luiz Streck

Justice and Discritionary Power
Thadeu Weber

REVIEW
Iris Marion Young. INJUSTICE AND THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE
Carlos Alberto Molinaro

COMMENT OF FOREIGN JURISPRUDENCE
Right to Housing and the Attachment of the Guarantor’s Property: Brief Notes on the Current Position of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court
Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet