Journal History

Themis Journal has existed since 1997, when volume 1, no. 1 was published under the leadership of Judge Fernando Luiz Ximenes Rocha, who presented the first issue of the journal at a time when the Ceará State School of Magistrates (Esmec) still operated within the premises of the Ceará State Court of Justice (TJCE), in the Cambeba neighborhood.

Initially, it had a semiannual frequency and was essentially endogenous, publishing articles and judicial decisions written by members of the Ceará judiciary.

Always striving to meet high standards of excellence and continuous improvement, Themis Journal obtained its International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) starting with vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1–431 (Jul/Dec 2006), and began pursuing criteria of exogeneity and broader access to the works it published, through a more democratic distribution of the journal. It began being sent to all judicial schools and courts across the country, as well as to universities and research centers in Brazil and abroad—still in printed form (ISSN 1808-6470).

Subsequently, the journal was indexed in Latindex, a system that provides information about scientific, technical-professional, and cultural journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal. Latindex was created in 1995 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

From the administration of Judge Paulo Francisco Banhos Ponte (2015–2016) onward, the journal began to be published in both print and electronic versions, adopting a defined editorial line, thus reaching a wider readership through its availability on the World Wide Web. This made it qualified to receive articles from all Brazilian states and even from abroad.