Acknowledgements

Alyane Almeida de Araujo and Sarah Marusek would like to thank the many impressive researchers who answered the call for this Special Edition, "Law and Gender Issues".This prolific group of researchers hails from the most varied places throughout the world.This breadth of representation unequivocally demonstrates that, despite being recent in the history of research in law, the category "Law and Gender" is already a well-established category of judicial analysis in multiple sites and locations.As editors, we congratulate and encourage each of them to continue their passionate and important work in this domain.We convey our sincerest gratitude to the 33 researchers from 15 countries (India, Mexico, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Slovenia, Lithuania, Kosovo, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Germany and Uzbekistan) whose contributions make this special edition unique, both in relation to the representation of different cultures and areas of law, as well as to the different research methods incorporated herein.This interdisciplinary and geographically diverse publication vitally represents "Law and Gender Issues" as a valuable source of investigation within the academic and practical domains of law.