The SED magazine, Society and Rights, has emerged in the last luxury as a new scientific publication between the philosophy of law and legal sociology, addressing substantive issues and methods that are essential for understanding rights in contemporary society. The multidisciplinary and exlection approach of the magazine since its foundation has led to the best hopeful results, making the working group working with the magazine a fuelling of ideas and tools for reading reality that unconfusing our cultural project. As of number 10 of 2020, the electronic magazine will be characterised by a partially different structure. Each number will be dedicated to a specific topic on which the Directorate will call for joint reflection; this will be complemented by other tests reflecting the breadth and variety of general theory studies of law, legal sociology and criminology. The number I present today is, to a large extent, dedicated to the effects on the legal system of the COVID-19 pandemic; reflections are devoted to this topic in the field of bio-politics (Zini), the right to health (Sartea), the criminal system (Sotis), education (Crocetta) and social change (Damiani). The reflection on the effects of the Pandemic will continue in the coming months. Closed the number of an article on the very recent Faro Convention and its consequences for the identification of ‘cultural rights’ (Chiara Antonia D’Alessandro), and two tests, of foreign authors, in English; the first criminological cut (Nurianto Rachmad Soepadmo) is dedicated to the criminal treatment of people with disabilities (particularly autism) in Indonesia. The second, strictly just, philosophical cut (Virginia Giuli) is devoted to the concept of punishment in Aristotle. The challenge of reality is captured and addressed by the authors with great depth and legal sensitivity, and today we will enrich the national and international debate on the issues addressed. The Director Marco Quiroz Vitale