CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK:The new Brazilian civil code at the historical moment of its publicationContract theory in the constitutional paradigmThe concept and functions of contractThe environmental function of contractsNew frontiers of the obligation to indemnify and of the determination of civil liabilityPrivate property, social justice and substantive citizenshipA demonstration of the social function of property as a presupposition for the grant of injunctive relief in possessory actionsFamily law and the crisis of autonomy of law on the cultural and human horizon of post-modern eraDemythifying family relationships in the new civil Law