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11 DIREITO GV L. Rev. [i] (2015)

handle is hein.journals/direlaw11 and id is 1 raw text is: : EDITORIAL EDITORIAL The Getulio Vargas Foundation (Fundagao Getulio Vargas - FG V) has as its mission,to con- tribute to the socio-economic development ofthe country, the improvement of national ethical standards, a responsible and shared governan- ce, and the presence of the country in the inter- national arena. Ten years since the first edition of DIREITO GVLAWRE VIE W(RE VISTA DIREITO GV) we have the opportunity to evaluate its perfor- mance and accomplishments until now and reflect on the role that the publication will have in the years ahead in the context of FGV's important mission. This broader reflection, connected to the ultimate purposes of the jour- nal, needs to be linked with a realistic discussion of the daily challenges ofproducing a high-quality law journal in Brazil and how to make the publication well known and also attractive for a broad and qualified commu- nity of readers, authors and reviewers. When the Getulio Vargas Foundation's Sao Paulo Law School (FGV DIREITO SP) was founded 1 Oyears ago, the decision was made to create a law journal that would both inclu- de more innovative Brazilian and International juridical scholarship and would help think and rethink Brazil's legal institutions. Therefore, DIREITO GVLAWREVIEWwas created in order to be generalist regarding its themes, theoreti- cal and methodological approaches, without becoming lost in the platitudes and truisms of traditional legal research. It can be observed that during these 1 Oyears the published texts have shared some funda- mental concerns. Thefirst one was to open the journal to interdisciplinary approaches andfor studies based on empirical methodologies, until then uncommon in legal scholarship. Regarding sociology, history and philosophy of law, the journal's preference was always to publish arti- cles that would amplify and modify the research agenda, as well as methodological and theore- tical references. The challenge was to escape from simple bibliographic digests or non-critical pre- sentations of the state of the art regarding a certain field, debate or author. In legal doctrine our preference was to publish articles that would critically discuss thefeatu- res and borders of legal thinking, or that would bring novel ideas to solve new and complex juridical questions. Throughout the years, the journal sought both works that were far from the traditional model of legal research, who- se reasoning frequently is similar to a petition or a legal opinion, as well as research that esca- ped from the sterile and repetitive style of Brazilian black letter law books. Aligned with the research themes developed by FGV DIREITO SP's masters programs, research centers and study groups, in the last few years the journal started to intensify its preferencefor publishing research related to Law &Develop- ment, Law &Society and Law &Economics. In addition, the publication also took an interest in articles on legal education, which is one more vehiclefor the strengthening of FG V DIREITO SP's commitment to the transformation and improvement of legal education in Brazil. What unites FG V DIREITO SP's research the- mes, and reminds us of FG V's mission, is the commitment to the advance and universalisa- tion of the Rule ofLaw in Brazil and the special attention given to the elaboration of diagnos- tics and production of empirical data about the interpretation and application of statutes and proposals of alterations of the Brazilian legal ordering, as well as the qualification of DOI: HTTP://DX.DOLORG/1 0.159[

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