After a presidential signature with few vetoes, on April 26, Federal Law No. 13,655 was published, which establishes rules on the creation and application of public law. Known as the Legal Certainty Law, it includes new principles, applicable mainly to the practices of administrative law in the former Law of Introduction to the Civil Code, renamed in 2010 as Law of Introduction to the Norms of Brazilian Law (LINDB).

Iuri Reis   Termination of a contract due to excessive hardship calls for two requirements beyond the ones for blue-penciling: extreme advantage to the counterparty and extraordinary nature of the events.

Gláucia Coelho e Misael do Lago    Usually underestimated and dealth with reservation by judges and lawyers, oral depositions have always been treated with caution in judicial proceedings.