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September 2020

The current health crisis puts a spotlight on the structural inequalities around the world and specially in our country. The pandemic challenges our capacity of analysis, reflection and conceptualization. Now more than ever critical study of Law became important in the search for new social arrangements and alternatives. Looking through this perspective, our section of new articles brings twelve works by national and foreign researchers, with topics ranging from of Law and Economics, Decolonial Studies, Critical Criminology, Critical Theory, Law Found on the Street, Socioenvironmental Debates, among other themes from the fields of theory, philosophy, and sociology of the law.

Moreover, considering our current situation, this monthly edition's dossier could not have a more adequate theme to focus on. At the moment that our guest editors came in touch with us to explain their ideas, we could not know that a health crisis of such grave proportions, as well as a deep crisis of democracy not seen since the advent of the 1988's Constitution, would evolve. Thus, in this issue of Direito e Práxis Journal (Vol. 11, n. 3, 2020, 31st edition, Sep-Dec) we bring forth a special dossier assembled by Rafael Vieira (UFRJ--Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Hannah Franzki (Bremen University), which marks the reception of works of Walter Benjamin by the critical research on the field of Law. The dossier titled "Walter Benjamin and the Law" contains seminal and new articles which tackle Benjamin's works on the judiciary field in Latin America.

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