CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK: The new Brazilian civil code at the historical moment of its publication Contract theory in the constitutional paradigm The concept and functions of contract The environmental function of contracts New frontiers of the obligation to indemnify and of the determination of civil liability Private property, social justice and substantive citizenship A demonstration of the social function of property as a presupposition for the grant of injunctive relief in possessory actions Family law and the crisis of autonomy of law on the cultural and human horizon of post-modern era Demythifying family relationships in the new civil Law