EDITORIAL NOTE

FOREIGN DOCTRINE
The Judge's Role in Relation to the Development of the System of Sources and to the Matter of Judiciary Regulation
Roberto Romboli

Fundamental Rights, European Law and Family Law: New Families, New Rights
Miguel Ángel Presno Linera

The Legal Protection of Life in the Strasburg Court : A Right in Transformation and Expansion
Fernando Rey Martínez

TRANSLATED DOCTRINE
Possibilities and Limits of the Constitutional Amendment in Spain in the Context of the Integrated Autonomous State in the European Union
Francisco Balaguer Callejón
Hugo César Araújo de Gusmão (translator)

NATIONAL DOCTRINE
The Constitutional Debate on Stem Cell Research, Human Rights and Dignity: The Law and a Recent Court Ruling in Brazil
Luiz Edson Fachin

The Homo-affective Relation: A Civil-Constitutional Institution and the Fundamental Rights
Suzani Andrade Ferraro

Considerations on the Development of Personality Rights and their Enforcement on Labor Relations
Fábio Siebeneichler de Andrade

Capitalist Crisis, Work Duration and Company Management
Wilson Ramos Filho

JURISPRUDENCE REVIEW
The Trial of Extraordinary Appeal RE 466.343/SP: A Landmark Case in the Supreme Federal Court's-STF Jurisprudence Concerning the Hierarchy of (Human Rights) International Treaties in Brazilian Law and, consequently, purporting to the Civil Imprisonment Prohibition
Selma Petterle