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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Index for Volume 69	17
Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts	14
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	10
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World	8
Private International Law Bibliography 2024: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	8
Julie Rocheton, The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Civil Codes in the United States	6
Excused Performances: Force Majeure, Impracticability, and Frustration of Contracts	5
Artificial Intelligence Accountability of Public Administration	5
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia	4
Formal vs. Informal Voluntary Disclosure Policies	4
Legal Reasoning Across Commercial Disputes: Comparing Judicial and Arbitral Analyses	3
Standard Form Contracts and the Erosion of Consent: Is There No Turning Back?	3
The Legal Innovation Sandbox	3
The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis	3
Constitutional Duties	3
Supreme Courts in Polarized Societies: A Comparative Study of Brazil, India, and Israel	3
The Authoritarian Commons: Divergent Paths of Neighborhood Democratization in Three Chinese Megacities	2
Complex Systems of Property: Change and Resilience After a Catastrophic Disaster	2
Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments	2
Beyond Transplant: A Network Innovation Model of Transnational Regulatory Change	2
A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn	2
Relational Sociology and Comparative Law	2
The Social Enterprise: A New Form of Enterprise?	1
Freedom of Speech and Regulation of Fake News	1
Death Penalty Abolitionism from the Enlightenment to Modernity	1

Toward an Account of the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide	1
Challenges in the Interdisciplinary Use of Comparative Law	1
European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy	1
Comparative Constitution Making The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions	1
City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity	1
Christopher Roberts, Alternative Approaches to Human Rights: The Disparate Historical Paths of the European, Inter-American and African Regional Human Rights Systems	1
The Rule of Law in the United States of America	1
Pau Bossacoma, Morality and Legality of Secession: A Theory of National Self-Determination	1
Strategic Judicial Empowerment	1
The Constitution of the Russian Federation: A Contextual Analysis	1
No Peace Without Punishment? Reintegrating Islamic State “Collaborators” in Iraq	1
The Family of the City, the Family of the Country	1
David Driesen, The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power (Stanford University Press, 2021)	1
Abortion Rights Through Consensus	1
Treaty for a Lost City: The Sino-British Joint Declaration	1
Adjectival Constitutionalism	1
Rediscovering the Constitutional Preamble? How Judges Enlist Preambles to Legitimate Transformative Interpretations	1
Editors’ Note	1
Cryptocurrencies: The Impossible Domestic Law Regime?	1
Administrative Procedure Acts in Europe: An Emerging “Common Core”?	0
From Legal Transplants to Policy Irritants: Chinese Economic Expansion and Global Legal Change	0
Generality and Exception in Islamic Legal Theory: Intent, Language, and the Jurist’s Role	0
Comparing the Machineries of Extradition: Between Functional and Cultural Approaches	0
Rechtsvergleichung im Völkerrecht	0
Comment ça va? The Status of French Laws in Vanuatu	0
The Role of Comparative Law in Political Science	0
Editors’ Note	0
Marta Cartabia & Nicola Lupo, The Constitution of Italy: A Contextual Analysis (Hart Publishing, 2022)	0
Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Private International Law in Classical Muslim International Law	0
Lawful but Awful: Evolving Legislative Responses to Address Online Misinformation, Disinformation, and Mal-Information in the Age of Generative AI	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
Evaluation of Evidence: Pre-modern and Modern Approaches	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2023: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
For Whose Sake and Benefit? A Critical Analysis of Leading International Treaty Proposals to Protect Nonhuman Animals	0
Multicultural Populations and Mixed Legal Systems in the United States: Louisiana and Puerto Rico	0
Decoding Judicial Cross-Citations: How Do European Judges Engage with Foreign Case Law?	0
First Nations’ Citizenship and Kinship Compared: Belonging’s Stake in Legality	0
Chemical Pollution and Regulatory Choices at the Start of Industrialization: Comparing France and Great Britain	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2021: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Are Political “Attacks” on the Judiciary Ever Justifiable? The Relationship Between Unfair Criticism and Public Accountability	0
Deciding Between Contradicting Norms: Rights-Based Law vs. Duty-Based Law and Their Social Ramifications	0
Is Neutrality Possible? A Critique of the CJEU on Headscarves in the Workplace from a Comparative Perspective	0
The Legal Metaverse and Comparative Taxonomy: A Reappraisal	0
The Non-Marital Presumption	0
Access to Civil Justice	0
Redefining Law in China	0
The Role of Comparative Law in the Analysis of Judicial Behavior	0
The False Hope of Stewardship in the Context of Controlling Shareholders: Making Sense Out of the Global Transplant of a Legal Misfit	0
Family Law and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Change and Stasis in the Arab Spring	0
Using Criminal Law to Fight Corruption: The Potential, Risks, and Limitations of Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato)	0

Intestacy and Inequality Under China’s Revised Succession Law	0
Freedom of Expression: The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought	0
A New Legal Form for Social Enterprises in Asia	0
Climate Change Impact on Agrarian Law: Legal Aspects of Food Security in the United States	0
Daphne Barak Erez, Biblical Judgments: New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible	0
Colonial Compensation and the Judicial Process: South Korea–Japan Disputes Revisited	0
The Turn to Confession Bargaining in German Criminal Procedure: Causes and Comparisons with American Plea Bargaining	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2022: Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey	0
The Legality Trap: Legal Co-optation Under Authoritarianism	0
The Myth of Transnational Public Policy in International Arbitration	0
Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence	0
Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands	0
Reasonableness as Responsiveness in Administrative Law in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada: Kant and Arendt on the Role of the Community in Deferential Judicial Review	0
Constitutional Dialogue Under Pressure: Constitutional Remedies in Israel as a Test Case	0
Corporate Law and Political Economy in a Kleptocracy	0
The Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights	0
Constitutional Morality: An Indian Framework	0
Making Legal Transplant Meaningful in a New Context: Geographical Indications from Europe to China	0
Redefining the Rule of Law: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study	0
Index	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2023: Thirty-Seventh Annual Survey	0
Rules Versus Standards in Shareholder Protection under Chinese Law: A New Taxonomy and Empirical Analysis	0
Transnational Configurations of the Criminalization–Racialization Nexus and the Origins of International Cannabis Prohibitions	0
Changing of the Guard: Two “Gatekeepers” Bid Adieu	0
Extraterritorial Application of Statutes and Regulations	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2021: Thirty-Fifth Annual Survey	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2024: Thirty-Eighth Annual Survey	0
EU Law in Populist Times: Crises and Prospects	0
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal Globalization and the Subversion of Liberal Democracy	0
Response to Professor Ruskola	0
Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory OpinionsSeeking the Court’s Advice: The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power	0
New Media and Freedom of Expression: Rethinking the Constitutional Foundations of the Public Sphere	0
The Womb Monologues: Toward A Mizrahi Feminist Theory of Israeli Law	0
Global Value Chains, Labor Rights, and the Nature of Transnational Law	0
The Extraterritorial Reach of American Class Actions: A Conflict-of-Laws Approach	0
Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19	0
The Relationship Between Global Law and the Individual: Symbiosis, Oscillation, and Strategic Subjectification	0
The Constitution of Arbitration	0
The Importance of Being First: Economic and Non-economic Dimensions of Inventorship in American and German Law	0
The Role of Comparative Law in the Social Sciences: An Introduction	0
Criminalizing Atrocities: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes	0
Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives Rebecca J. Cook ed.	0
The War Within Religion: Towards a More Nuanced Resolution of Religion–Equality Conflicts	0
Comparative Law and Economics: Aspirations and Hard Realities	0
Pejorative Assertions, Human Rights Evaluation, and European Veiling Laws	0
The Autonomy-Based Account of Chinese Trust Laws	0
The Taiwanese Roots of East Asia’s War Redress Movement: An Alternate Genealogy	0
Path Dependence, Systemic Will, and the Transformation of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law	0
Understanding the Psychology of Social Order	0
Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction	0
Constitutional Repair: A Comparative Theory	0
Expansion and Restriction: Divergent Paths Towards Modernizing Family Laws in Japan and China, 1868–1930	0
Mapping the Cosmopolitan Legal Imaginary: Recent Chinese Scholarship on Dispute Resolution	0
Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, or How Not to Study Chinese Law	0
Property Law: Comparative, Empirical and Economic Analysis	0
Luís Roberto Barroso’s Theory of Constitutional Adjudication: A Philosophical Reply	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2022: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
The Politicization of Corporate Governance: A Viable Alternative?	0
The Law and Bioethics of End-of-Life Decisions	0
Differences in a Minor Archive: Feminist Activists and Scholars on Cohabitation	0
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	0
Acquisitive Prescription of Artwork and Other High-Value Movables: A Comparative Case Study of Litigation and Legislation in Louisiana, Germany, and Russia	0
Legal Perspectives on the Streaming Industry: The United States	0
Autonomous Vehicles and Liability Law	0
Index	0
After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It	0
On Comparative Law’s Repressed Colonial Governance	0
National Security Secrecy: Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law	0
The Perils of Gender Self-Determination: Global Shifts in Sex Reclassification Law and Policy	0
Federalism and Vertical Tax Competition	0
Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma	0
Support for Constitutional Rights During Crisis: Evidence from the Pandemic	0
The Jurisdictional Vacuum: Transnational Corporate Human Rights Claims in Common Law Home States	0
The U.S. National Report on the Independence and Impartiality of International Adjudicators	0
Substantive Legitimate Expectations: Re-shaping the Boundaries of Judicial Reach in Public Law Remedies in Commonwealth Jurisdictions	0
The Irony of British Human Rights Exceptionalism, 1948–1998	0
Courts, Constitutionalism, and State Capacity: A Preliminary Inquiry	0