Professor at FGV's São Paulo Law School (DIREITO GV), Danilo Araujo, attended the 18^th Latin American Roman Law Congress with the work The Capital and Industry Corporation as an Independent Corporate Type and the Romanistic Legal System and the Latin American Legal Subsystem. The paper does not address pure Roman Law, because the congress provides the opportunity to analyze the romanistic roots of contemporary legal institutions, besides the relations of reciprocal influence and reception among the various modern legal systems of romanistic matrix, always assuming the original considerations of Roman times the professor explains. In his research, Danilo also explains how the capital and industry corporation emerged from successive considerations and studies of commentators and interpreters of Roman Law. The congress took place on August 7-9 in the Catholic University Santa Maria La Antigua, in Panama's capital.