FOREWORD, CREDITS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS

Raphael Carvalho de Vasconcelos
2018 Panorama of Brazilian Law  
These were the concluding words of the Foreword I wrote for the collection of essays on various fields of Brazilian law, as co-editor of the "Panorama of Brazilian Law", together with Professor Keith S. Rosenn of the University of Miami, which was published in 1992. 21 years have passed and now a group of the next generation of Brazilian law scholars has undertaken to resuscitate and keep alive the idea of the Panorama by means of a permanent electronic journal. Professor Carmen Tiburcio, who
more » ... ntributed to the original Panorama and later substituted me as head of the Private International Law Department of the Rio de Janeiro State University, together with Raphael Carvalho de Vasconcelos and Bruno Rodrigues de Almeida, both professors of international law at the UFRRJ are leading this important initiative. Today, much more than two decades ago -Brazil, one of the BRIC countries -has become an important player in the international economy and its legal system an important factor in the proper development of international commercial relations. May this effort prosper for years and generations to come. Jacob Dolinger, 2013 EDITORIAL NOTE In 1992, a group of prominent Brazilian scholars led by Professors Jacob Dolinger (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) and Keith Rosenn (University of Miami) created the journal Panorama of Brazilian Law as an attempt to provide reliable legal information on Brazilian Law for non-Portuguese speakers. The publication, originally planned as an Yearbook, presented papers related to several branches of Brazilian law written by respected authors. Due to several reasons, this groundbreaking project did not go ahead and the inaugural issue was the only one released. The new Panorama of Brazilian Law intends to rescue the 1992's goals and ideas not just through this print version but also setting the periodic in the electronic magazine format (www. panoramaofbrazilianlaw.com) which allows a broader perspective for the knowledge and broadcasting of articles featuring any branch of Brazilian Law written in selected foreign languages. For this inaugural edition, papers written in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish were able to submission. Papers selected are original and unpublished. Versions of papers originally released in Portuguese were also accepted. The Scientific Council is responsible for the Editorial Line of the magazine, whose goals are to spread information about Brazil's legal order and juridical environment among non-Portuguese speakers. Formal aspects and criteria for publication are found at the www. panoramaofbrazilianlaw.com website under "about" > "submissions" > "author guidelines". The call for papers for its forthcoming volume 2 is already available. The tolerant and plural perspective of the project, which is opened to all branches of Brazilian law, was determinant for choosing not to establish an hermetic format concerning the logical organization of the articles -neither with respect to its distribution along the yearbook nor in the organization adopted by authors in its papers. The access to the online magazine is completely free of costs or registration. The editors of Panorama of Brazilian Law are very glad to reestablish the project and hope to provide foreign researchers an ultimate way to access Brazilian law. Rio, Abstract: The paper is intended to provide an overview of Private International Law in Brazil. With this purpose, it presents in broad lines the subject matters of the discipline, undertaking, whenever possible, comparisons with the contours given to it in the United States. In sum, the text deals with the acquisition of Brazilian nationality, the status of aliens, the determination of the applicable legislation to legal relationships with international connections -which includes the exam of Brazilian connecting rules and principles of Private International Law -and the exercise of Brazilian jurisdiction.
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