We are especially interested in manuscripts on social rights and democracy. Our intent is to prepare a set of discussions on how democracies promote social rights today, i.e., to what extent social movements, legal institutions, parliaments and executive power are able to find solutions to the challenges of democracies today? Have, for example, affirmative action, housing and health care programs, and even direct financial assistance to the poor actually reduced inequality? In addition, what are the most effective solutions for poverty? Are courts the best way to ensure social rights today? We are also interested in papers that address the costs of social programs. These are some of the possibilities, but many other questions may be brought to the table. We encourage submissions based on historical approaches carried out by jurists, political scientists, historians, sociologists, and other professionals in fields that have particular focus on legal problems.

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About the journal

Welcome to Prim@ Facie, a non-profit journal of the Graduate Program in Law at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), located in Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil. The journal features the double-blind peer review process of analysis in which numerous referees from Brazil and other parts of the world are required to give their opinions. The final selection decision is made by a board of executive editors, who conduct desk reviews and invite referees to advise them once a paper has passed the first step of evaluation. The executive editors make the final decisions. Executive editors are mainly university lecturers working with graduate students as assistants. An Advisory Board, mostly composed of international experts, contributes to the high quality of the publication. Fellow members with appropriate qualifications are invited to collaborate in the project. 

 Guest Editors

• Maria Aurea Cecato, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil, mariaaurea.cecato@gmail.com
• Armando Albuquerque, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil, armandoalbuquerque@yahoo.com.br
• María Belén Cardona Rubert, Universidad de Valencia, Spain, maria.b.cardona@uv.es

Editorial Advisory Board

• Artur Stamford da Silva, UFPE, Brazil
• Belinda Pereira da Cunha, UFPB, Brazil 
• Emilio Santoro, Universidade de Florença, Italy 
• Emmanuel Berger, Université de Namur, Belgique 
• José Gilberto de Souza, UNESP/Rio Claro/SP, Brazil 
• Marcilio Toscano Franca Filho, UFPB, Brazil 
• Maria Luiza Mayer Feitosa, UFPB, Brazil 
• Ottavio Quirico, Universidade da Nova Inglaterra, Australia 
• Mariana Ribeiro Santiago, UNIMAR, Brazil 
• Ralph Wilde, Faculty of Laws at University College London (UCL), United Kingdom 
• Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Centres d'Études et de Recherches Internationales et Communautaires, France 
• Zéu Palmeira Sobrinho, UFRN, Brazil 

Submission Guidelines

•  Submissions by May 12, 2016, will be published by June 30, 2016.
•  Every article is published with no delay after being evaluated, submitted to revision, and finally edited by the layout editor.
•  More information on how to submit your manuscript can be obtained at: http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/primafacie/information/authors

Please note: We accept other papers related to law, history and politics at any time. A section entitled Corpus includes articles on the theme of the particular edition while others are published in a section called Articles. 

For a submission, you must check off every item of the submission checklist and the copyright notice. The author, or the copyright holder, grants to the Federal University of Paraiba, the exclusive right to publish the contribution in the Journal including any supplementary materials that support the online version and to deal with requests from third parties. 

Prim@ Facie is a non-profit journal managed by a federal university in Brazil. Its statute is available online on our website. The editorial office is located in the Laboratory of Journals in Law on the lower level of the CCJ building on the campus of the Federal University of Paraiba, in João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil.