This article makes comments on Law 1390 of 1951, known as Afonso Arinos Law, the first Brazilian law against racial discrimination. The analysis concentrates on the coverage by some large-circulation Brazilian newspapers ...

The objective of this paper is twofold: to show how Law and Economics can be an effective tool in the analysis of labour law, and through its application to evaluate the potential effects of Brazil’s 2017 Labour Law reform. ...

The purpose of this article is to evaluate if the brazilian informatics law has been able to promote significant private expenditures in R & D resulting in so-called additionality effects (crowd in). The analysis is based ...

This article presents a general overview of Brazilian sociolegal studies. After presenting a short historical narrative of the field in Brazil, we argue that the early years of intense teaching of legal sociology had a ...

In early 2005, the Brazilian Congress approved a new bankruptcy law. The new legislation increased creditor protection and improved the efficiency of the bankruptcy system. This paper evaluates the empirical consequences ...