Journal History

Revista Opinião Jurídica (ISSN 1806-0420) is the scientific journal of the Law Course at Centro Universitário Christus - UNICHRISTUS, an institution based in Fortaleza, in the state of Ceará, in the northeast region of Brazil. The journal has been in existence for 19 years, has published 35 issues, and is currently published every four months.

In 2017, Revista Opinião Jurídica was re-qualified by the Brazilian body responsible for evaluating scientific journals and stricto sensu postgraduate programs: Capes - Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel.

In recent years, the journal has been achieving exogeny rates of 60%. But since issue 16, Revista Opinião Jurídica has increased its exogeny to over 75% in all dimensions (in terms of the origin of the articles, the referees, and the members of the Editorial Board).

It should also be noted that, since the first issue of Revista Opinião Jurídica, we have seen the unfailing presence of several of the greatest names that legal writing has ever produced on the national scene, in various shades of knowledge. Names that constitute authentic theoretical ground for generations of jurists, in various areas of law, alternate side by side with young talents from the newest crop of authors, forming a healthy and fruitful environment, based on meritocracy.

It is also important to note that, since 2004, the journal has also housed a permanent Foreign Doctrine section, systematically publishing authors who are international references in their areas of knowledge, from countries such as France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Argentina, New Zealand, etc.

Thus, in addition to aiming to disseminate the best of its faculty's production, the Revista Opinião Jurídica has expanded and intensified various strategies for the inclusion, democratization, and publication of works of excellence, responsible for involving researchers from several places.