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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping the Cosmopolitan Legal Imaginary: Recent Chinese Scholarship on Dispute Resolution	18
Pau Bossacoma, Morality and Legality of Secession: A Theory of National Self-Determination	9
Comparative Constitution Making The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions	5
Index for Volume 69	5
On Comparative Law’s Repressed Colonial Governance	4
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	4
Proportionality in the Age of Populism	3
The Social Enterprise: A New Form of Enterprise?	3
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	3
Complex Systems of Property: Change and Resilience After a Catastrophic Disaster	3
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2020: Thirty-Fourth Annual Survey	3
The Autonomy-Based Account of Chinese Trust Laws	3
For Whose Sake and Benefit? A Critical Analysis of Leading International Treaty Proposals to Protect Nonhuman Animals	2
Expansion and Restriction: Divergent Paths Towards Modernizing Family Laws in Japan and China, 1868–1930	2
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2023: Thirty-Seventh Annual Survey	2
Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts	2
Freedom of Speech and Regulation of Fake News	2
Generality and Exception in Islamic Legal Theory: Intent, Language, and the Jurist’s Role	2
The Politicization of Corporate Governance: A Viable Alternative?	2
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
Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence	1
Comment ça va? The Status of French Laws in Vanuatu	1
Changing of the Guard: Two “Gatekeepers” Bid Adieu	1
Evaluation of Evidence: Pre-modern and Modern Approaches	1
Private International Law Bibliography 2023: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	1

Redefining the Rule of Law: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study	1
Private International Law Bibliography 2022: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	1
City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity	1
The Rule of Law in the United States of America	1
Luís Roberto Barroso’s Theory of Constitutional Adjudication: A Philosophical Reply	1
Are Political “Attacks” on the Judiciary Ever Justifiable? The Relationship Between Unfair Criticism and Public Accountability	1
Multicultural Populations and Mixed Legal Systems in the United States: Louisiana and Puerto Rico	1
Index	1
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World	1
Excused Performances: Force Majeure, Impracticability, and Frustration of Contracts	1
The Law and Bioethics of End-of-Life Decisions	1
Death Penalty Abolitionism from the Enlightenment to Modernity	1
The False Hope of Stewardship in the Context of Controlling Shareholders: Making Sense Out of the Global Transplant of a Legal Misfit	1
Substantive Legitimate Expectations: Re-shaping the Boundaries of Judicial Reach in Public Law Remedies in Commonwealth Jurisdictions	0
The Legal Metaverse and Comparative Taxonomy: A Reappraisal	0
Relational Sociology and Comparative Law	0
Extraterritorial Application of Statutes and Regulations	0
The Role of Comparative Law in the Social Sciences: An Introduction	0
Legal Perspectives on the Streaming Industry: The United States	0
Criminalizing Atrocities: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes	0
Constitutional Duties	0
Family Law and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Change and Stasis in the Arab Spring	0
Editors’ Note	0
Colonial Compensation and the Judicial Process: South Korea–Japan Disputes Revisited	0
Strategic Judicial Empowerment	0
The Jurisdictional Vacuum: Transnational Corporate Human Rights Claims in Common Law Home States	0
After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It	0
Editors’ Note	0
Acquisitive Prescription of Artwork and Other High-Value Movables: A Comparative Case Study of Litigation and Legislation in Louisiana, Germany, and Russia	0
Administrative Procedure Acts in Europe: An Emerging “Common Core”?	0
Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma	0
Beyond Transplant: A Network Innovation Model of Transnational Regulatory Change	0
Deciding Between Contradicting Norms: Rights-Based Law vs. Duty-Based Law and Their Social Ramifications	0
Toward an Account of the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide	0
Access to Civil Justice	0
The Contested Concept of Secularism and Bangladesh	0
Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Private International Law in Classical Muslim International Law	0
Understanding the Psychology of Social Order	0
Climate Change Impact on Agrarian Law: Legal Aspects of Food Security in the United States	0
Is Neutrality Possible? A Critique of the CJEU on Headscarves in the Workplace from a Comparative Perspective	0
The Importance of Being First: Economic and Non-economic Dimensions of Inventorship in American and German Law	0
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal Globalization and the Subversion of Liberal Democracy	0
Differences in a Minor Archive: Feminist Activists and Scholars on Cohabitation	0
Using Criminal Law to Fight Corruption: The Potential, Risks, and Limitations of Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato)	0
The Perils of Gender Self-Determination: Global Shifts in Sex Reclassification Law and Policy	0
Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, or How Not to Study Chinese Law	0
Corporate Law and Political Economy in a Kleptocracy	0
Buddhist Rules About Rules: Procedure and Process in the (Theravāda) Buddhist Legal System	0
The Authoritarian Commons: Divergent Paths of Neighborhood Democratization in Three Chinese Megacities	0
Comparative Law and Economics: Aspirations and Hard Realities	0

The Irony of British Human Rights Exceptionalism, 1948–1998	0
Response to Professor Ruskola	0
Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments: A Critical Assessment of the 1996 South African Constitution’s Local and International Influence	0
India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy	0
The Constitution of Arbitration	0
Democratic Backsliding, Subsidized Speech, and the New Majoritarian Entrenchment	0
Constitutional Dialogue Under Pressure: Constitutional Remedies in Israel as a Test Case	0
No Peace Without Punishment? Reintegrating Islamic State “Collaborators” in Iraq	0
Global Value Chains, Labor Rights, and the Nature of Transnational Law	0
Property Law: Comparative, Empirical and Economic Analysis	0
European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy	0
The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis	0
Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands	0
Constitutional Morality: An Indian Framework	0
New Media and Freedom of Expression: Rethinking the Constitutional Foundations of the Public Sphere	0
EU Law in Populist Times: Crises and Prospects	0
The Family of the City, the Family of the Country	0
Pejorative Assertions, Human Rights Evaluation, and European Veiling Laws	0
National Security Secrecy: Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law	0
Rechtsvergleichung im Völkerrecht	0
Index	0
The Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights	0
Autonomous Vehicles and Liability Law	0
Challenges in the Interdisciplinary Use of Comparative Law	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2020: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Decoding Judicial Cross-Citations: How Do European Judges Engage with Foreign Case Law?	0
Through a Glass, Darkly: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Opacity	0
The Constitution of the Russian Federation: A Contextual Analysis	0
Constitutional Transition and the Travail of Judges: The Courts of South Korea	0
Judging as Crime: A Transatlantic Perspective on Criminalizing Excesses of Judicial Discretion	0
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia	0
The Role of Comparative Law in Political Science	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2021: Thirty-Fifth Annual Survey	0
The U.S. National Report on the Independence and Impartiality of International Adjudicators	0
Formal vs. Informal Voluntary Disclosure Policies	0
Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction	0
How Constitutional Rights Matter	0
The War Within Religion: Towards a More Nuanced Resolution of Religion–Equality Conflicts	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
The Myth of Transnational Public Policy in International Arbitration	0
The Womb Monologues: Toward A Mizrahi Feminist Theory of Israeli Law	0
Private Takings of Land for Urban Redevelopment: A Tale of Two Cities	0
Chemical Pollution and Regulatory Choices at the Start of Industrialization: Comparing France and Great Britain	0
A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn	0
Courts, Constitutionalism, and State Capacity: A Preliminary Inquiry	0
Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2021: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Legal Reasoning Across Commercial Disputes: Comparing Judicial and Arbitral Analyses	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2022: Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey	0
Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory OpinionsSeeking the Court’s Advice: The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power	0
Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19	0
The Role of Comparative Law in the Analysis of Judicial Behavior	0
Cryptocurrencies: The Impossible Domestic Law Regime?	0
Path Dependence, Systemic Will, and the Transformation of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law	0
A New Legal Form for Social Enterprises in Asia	0
The Purposive Transformation of Corporate Law	0
The Turn to Confession Bargaining in German Criminal Procedure: Causes and Comparisons with American Plea Bargaining	0
Comparing the Machineries of Extradition: Between Functional and Cultural Approaches	0
Artificial Intelligence Accountability of Public Administration	0
The Relationship Between Global Law and the Individual: Symbiosis, Oscillation, and Strategic Subjectification	0