The Commission Qualis - Law Area of CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - Brazilian Ministry of Education) released the results of the evaluation for the quadrennium 2013-2016, carried out during 2017. After evaluating over 2000 journals that published in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 articles written by professors, LLM and PhD candidates of the Law area of Brazilian institutions, the Commission classified the journals as A1 (highest), A2, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and C.

The Journal of Constitutional Research received the Qualis A1, level that ranked the Journal among the best national and foreign legal journals according to CAPES.

We thank our Editorial Board, our Peer Review Board, our Administrative Assistant and all our authors and readers, who are responsible for this great achievement!