Convergences and Divergences between the Italian and the Brazilian legal Systems

The contributions included in this volume, which span seven different branches of law (from civil law to criminal law, from constitutional law to philosophy of law), were presented at the Conference held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento on 6 and 7 November 2014. The Conference aimed at starting a scientific collaboration between the Trento Faculty of Law and Brazilian universities. Professors from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) and the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo joined professors of the Trento Faculty of Law to discuss the relationship between the Italian and the Brazilian legal systems from many different perspectives. The different contributions of this book do not pretend to offer a complete picture of developments in the Brazilian and Italian legal systems. Rather they do aim to show that many theoretical and practical challenges lie ahead and, at the same time, to identify some themes for a joint reflection. Probably, what is happening, and is going to happen, in these two legal systems is of a much wider interest at global level. Hopefully, this book will be the starting point of an engaging and fruitful debate.