OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Comparative Law is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Hyper-Legalism and Obfuscation: How States Evade Their International Obligations Towards Refugees	10
Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility? Legislative Innovation and Judicial Application in China	10
Anti Anti-Orientalism, or Is Chinese Law Different?†	7
Enforcement of Chinese Insider Trading Law: An Empirical and Comparative Perspective	6
Precedents and Chinese Judges: An Experiment	6
Metaphors, Judicial Frames, and Fundamental Rights in Cyberspace	6
After Difference: A Meta-Comparative Study of Chinese Encounters with Foreign Comparative Law†	5
“I Am Starting to Believe in the Word ‘Justice’”: Lessons from an Ethnographic Study on Community Courts	5
Through a Glass, Darkly: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Opacity	4
Using Criminal Law to Fight Corruption: The Potential, Risks, and Limitations of Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato)	3
Artificial Intelligence Accountability of Public Administration	3
The Turn to Confession Bargaining in German Criminal Procedure: Causes and Comparisons with American Plea Bargaining	2
You Name It: On the Cross-Border Regulation of Names	2
Private Takings of Land for Urban Redevelopment: A Tale of Two Cities	2
Comparative Law and Economics: Aspirations and Hard Realities	2
Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction	2
Relational Sociology and Comparative Law	2
The Purposive Transformation of Corporate Law	2
The Role of Comparative Law in the Social Sciences: An Introduction	2
Enforced Performance in Common Law Versus Civil Law Systems: An Empirical Study of a Legal Transformation	1
European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy	1
Normal Rights, Just New: Understanding the Judicial Enforcement of Socioeconomic Rights	1
Democratic Backsliding, Subsidized Speech, and the New Majoritarian Entrenchment	1
Proportionality in the Age of Populism	1
Comparing Islamic and International Laws of War: Orthodoxy, “Heresy,” and Secularization in the Category of Civilians	1

Informal Institutional Elements as Both Preconditions and Consequences of Effective Formal Legal Rules: The Failure of Constitutional Institution Building in Hungary	1
Buddhist Rules About Rules: Procedure and Process in the (Theravāda) Buddhist Legal System	1
Corporate Law and Political Economy in a Kleptocracy	1
A Colonial Legal Laboratory? Jurisprudential Innovation in British India	1
A Legal and Political Assessment of Challenges to Abortion Laws by Anti-choice Activists in Australia and the Progression of Abortion Law in Australia and the United States	1
City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity	1
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2020: Thirty-Fourth Annual Survey	1
The Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights	1
The Role of Comparative Law in the Analysis of Judicial Behavior	1
Trusts Reimagined: The Transplantation and Evolution of Trust Law in Northeast Asia	1
International Law and Regional Norm Smuggling: How the EU and ASEAN Redefined the Global Regime on Human Trafficking	1
Freedom of Speech and Regulation of Fake News	1
The Politicization of Corporate Governance: A Viable Alternative?	1
Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma	0
Personal Jurisdiction in Comparative Context	0
Complex Systems of Property: Change and Resilience After a Catastrophic Disaster	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2019: Thirty-Third Annual Survey	0
The Womb Monologues: Toward A Mizrahi Feminist Theory of Israeli Law	0
Are Political “Attacks” on the Judiciary Ever Justifiable? The Relationship Between Unfair Criticism and Public Accountability	0
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World	0
Citizenship in Africa: The Law of Belonging	0
Constitutional Morality: An Indian Framework	0
Redefining the Rule of Law: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study	0
Index for Volume 69	0
Criminalizing Atrocities: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes	0
Path Dependence, Systemic Will, and the Transformation of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law	0
Luís Roberto Barroso’s Theory of Constitutional Adjudication: A Philosophical Reply	0
A New Legal Form for Social Enterprises in Asia	0
Response to Professor Ruskola	0
The Law and Bioethics of End-of-Life Decisions	0
The Jurisdictional Vacuum: Transnational Corporate Human Rights Claims in Common Law Home States	0
Excused Performances: Force Majeure, Impracticability, and Frustration of Contracts	0
Climate Change Impact on Agrarian Law: Legal Aspects of Food Security in the United States	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2019: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English†	0
Judging as Crime: A Transatlantic Perspective on Criminalizing Excesses of Judicial Discretion	0
Proportionality Balancing and Global Governance: A Comparative and Global Approach	0
Rechtsvergleichung im Völkerrecht	0
Toward an Account of the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide	0
Is Neutrality Possible? A Critique of the CJEU on Headscarves in the Workplace from a Comparative Perspective	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2022: Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2020: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Constitutional Dialogue Under Pressure: Constitutional Remedies in Israel as a Test Case	0
The Autonomy-Based Account of Chinese Trust Laws	0
Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments	0
Understanding the Psychology of Social Order	0
India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy	0
The Social Enterprise: A New Form of Enterprise?	0
The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England†	0
Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory OpinionsSeeking the Court’s Advice: The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power	0
Constitutional Law of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy: Competence and Institutions in External Relations	0

Courts, Constitutionalism, and State Capacity: A Preliminary Inquiry	0
Regime-Centered and Court-Centered Understandings: The Reception of American Constitutional Law in Contemporary China†	0
Ole Lando (September 2, 1922–April 5, 2019)	0
Preservative or Transformative? Theorizing the U.K. Constitution Using Comparative Method	0
A Bottom-up View of Legal Transplants	0
Evaluation of Evidence: Pre-modern and Modern Approaches	0
Comparative Constitution Making The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions	0
The Constitution of Arbitration	0
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal Globalization and the Subversion of Liberal Democracy	0
Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, or How Not to Study Chinese Law	0
Pau Bossacoma, Morality and Legality of Secession: A Theory of National Self-Determination	0
The Irony of British Human Rights Exceptionalism, 1948–1998	0
Deciding Between Contradicting Norms: Rights-Based Law vs. Duty-Based Law and Their Social Ramifications	0
Comment ça va? The Status of French Laws in Vanuatu	0
Colonial Compensation and the Judicial Process: South Korea–Japan Disputes Revisited	0
Multicultural Populations and Mixed Legal Systems in the United States: Louisiana and Puerto Rico	0
The Myth of Transnational Public Policy in International Arbitration	0
A Symposium on Richard Albert’s Constitutional Amendments	0
Autonomous Vehicles and Liability Law	0
A Symposium on Richard Albert’s Constitutional Amendments	0
Between the Agency and the Court: Ex Ante Review of Regulations	0
The Question of Comparison	0
The Wuthering Heights of Constitutional Amendment: A Portrait of Contemporary Theory and Practice	0
Beyond Transplant: A Network Innovation Model of Transnational Regulatory Change	0
Legal Reasoning Across Commercial Disputes: Comparing Judicial and Arbitral Analyses	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2022: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Pejorative Assertions, Human Rights Evaluation, and European Veiling Laws	0
National Security Secrecy: Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law	0
Editors’ Note	0
On Comparative Law’s Repressed Colonial Governance	0
Cryptocurrencies: The Impossible Domestic Law Regime?	0
Editors’ Note	0
Legal Perspectives on the Streaming Industry: The United States	0
Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands	0
New Media and Freedom of Expression: Rethinking the Constitutional Foundations of the Public Sphere	0
The New Transformation of Europe: Arcana Imperii	0
A Tale of Two Countries: Divorce in England and Prussia, 1670–1794	0
The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis	0
Constitutional Transition and the Travail of Judges: The Courts of South Korea	0
From Local to Global on Multiple Pathways	0
Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments: A Critical Assessment of the 1996 South African Constitution’s Local and International Influence	0
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia	0
Death Penalty Abolitionism from the Enlightenment to Modernity	0
Index for Volume 68	0
The Authoritarian Commons: Divergent Paths of Neighborhood Democratization in Three Chinese Megacities	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2021: Thirty-Fifth Annual Survey	0
Index	0
Mapping the Cosmopolitan Legal Imaginary: Recent Chinese Scholarship on Dispute Resolution	0
The Importance of Being First: Economic and Non-economic Dimensions of Inventorship in American and German Law	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2021: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Differences in a Minor Archive: Feminist Activists and Scholars on Cohabitation	0
A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn	0
The Rule of Law in the United States of America	0
The U.S. National Report on the Independence and Impartiality of International Adjudicators	0
Acquisitive Prescription of Artwork and Other High-Value Movables: A Comparative Case Study of Litigation and Legislation in Louisiana, Germany, and Russia	0
Failures of American Methods of Lawmaking in Historical and Comparative Perspectives	0
Editors’ Note	0
Mapping Saudi Criminal Law	0
The Family of the City, the Family of the Country	0
Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence	0
EU Law in Populist Times: Crises and Prospects	0
Access to Civil Justice	0
Chemical Pollution and Regulatory Choices at the Start of Industrialization: Comparing France and Great Britain	0
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	0
Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19	0
Challenges in the Interdisciplinary Use of Comparative Law	0
How Constitutional Rights Matter	0
The Historical Origins of the Horizontal Effect Problem in the United States and Japan: How the Reach of Constitutional Rights into the Private Sphere Became a Problem	0
The Role of Comparative Law in Political Science	0
The Contested Concept of Secularism and Bangladesh	0
Extraterritorial Application of Statutes and Regulations	0