Freedom of expression, copyright, trade rights, election propaganda, the World Cup General Law. How do such issues influence hosting the World Cup in Brazil? What are their impacts on the organizers, soccer fans, the population and the country? That's what FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO) seeks to analyze in the special Direito e Copa (Law and the Cup) - available on the School's website until the end of the tournament.The online publication features six articles by professors and experts of the School written exclusively for the it, and includes links to the Statute of the Soccer Fan and the General Law of the Cup - to contextualize the readers about the complexity of the subject matter. The World Cup has long ceased to be just a get-together event among different nations and cultures around the most loved sport in the planet - soccer - and became mainly a multimillion-dollar international business as well, explained the researchers from the Technology and Society Center (CTS), Luiz Moncau and Pedro Augusto, in the text The Cup cannot establish a State of Exception.The director of Rio de Janeiro Law School, Professor Joaquim Falcão, also participates in the special with the article A Polícia Federal e a falsa camisa da seleção? (The Federal Police and the fake national soccer team's shirt), published by the newspaper Correio Braziliense on May 22. In it, Falcão discusses the laws surrounding the official products of the Cup and the economic reality of the Brazilian people. An official shirt of the national team by Nike costs R$ 349.90, or almost half the value of the minimum wage, which today is R$ 724.00. In Brazil, according to data from the 2010 census, about 45 million people earn up to one minimum wage. They are all soccer fans. It's impossible not to buy one [a fake shirt of the team], he explained.Please click here and learn more in the special Direito e Copa by Rio de Janeiro Law School (in Portuguese).