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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts	12
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World	10
Julie Rocheton, The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Civil Codes in the United States	8
Whitney K. Taylor , The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization	6
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	6
Private International Law Bibliography 2024: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	6
Excused Performances: Force Majeure, Impracticability, and Frustration of Contracts	5
Constitutional Duties	5
Grace Periods and Suspension Orders for Constitutional Remedies: Lessons from the Taiwan Constitutional Court	5
The Legal Innovation Sandbox	5
Irini Katsirea , Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Era (Oxford University Press, 2024)	5
Economic Dimensions of International Regulation of Marriage	5
Formal vs. Informal Voluntary Disclosure Policies	5
The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis	4
Informal Norms in Judicial Selection	4
Legal Reasoning Across Commercial Disputes: Comparing Judicial and Arbitral Analyses	4
Supreme Courts in Polarized Societies: A Comparative Study of Brazil, India, and Israel	4
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia	4
Standard Form Contracts and the Erosion of Consent: Is There No Turning Back?	3
A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn	3
Complex Systems of Property: Change and Resilience After a Catastrophic Disaster	2
The Authoritarian Commons: Divergent Paths of Neighborhood Democratization in Three Chinese Megacities	2
The Social Enterprise: A New Form of Enterprise?	2
Beyond Transplant: A Network Innovation Model of Transnational Regulatory Change	2
Abortion Rights Through Consensus	2

David Driesen, The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power (Stanford University Press, 2021)	2
Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments	2
Christopher Roberts, Alternative Approaches to Human Rights: The Disparate Historical Paths of the European, Inter-American and African Regional Human Rights Systems	2
Fighting Crime in Non-Criminal Proceedings: A Comparative Study of American Civil Forfeiture and Italian Preventive Confiscation	1
Treaty for a Lost City: The Sino-British Joint Declaration	1
Strategic Judicial Empowerment	1
The Constitution of the Russian Federation: A Contextual Analysis	1
Multicultural Populations and Mixed Legal Systems in the United States: Louisiana and Puerto Rico	1
Comparative Constitution Making The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions	1
Exploring Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe and Their Relevance to the Comparative Debate	1
Rediscovering the Constitutional Preamble? How Judges Enlist Preambles to Legitimate Transformative Interpretations	1
Toward an Account of the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide	1
Death Penalty Abolitionism from the Enlightenment to Modernity	1
Outsourcing Legal Modernity: Late Colonial Constitutionalism in Muslim Northern Nigeria	1
Redefining the Rule of Law: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study	1
Rules Versus Standards in Shareholder Protection under Chinese Law: A New Taxonomy and Empirical Analysis	1
Editors’ Note	1
Jorge L. Esquirol , Ruling the Law: Legitimacy and Failure in Latin American Legal Systems (Jorge L. Esquirol, Cambridge University Press, 2020)	1
Tamar Groswald Ozery , Law and Political Economy in China : The Role of Law in Corporate Gove	1
The Family of the City, the Family of the Country	1
The Rule of Law in the United States of America	1
Adjectival Constitutionalism	1
No Peace Without Punishment? Reintegrating Islamic State “Collaborators” in Iraq	1
Evaluation of Evidence: Pre-modern and Modern Approaches	1
Adversarial Comparativism: The Role of Emotion in United States–China Comparative Law Projects	1
Cryptocurrencies: The Impossible Domestic Law Regime?	1
Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2024: Thirty-Eighth Annual Survey	0
The Extraterritorial Reach of American Class Actions: A Conflict-of-Laws Approach	0
Freedom of Expression: The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought	0
Expansion and Restriction: Divergent Paths Towards Modernizing Family Laws in Japan and China, 1868–1930	0
Chemical Pollution and Regulatory Choices at the Start of Industrialization: Comparing France and Great Britain	0
The Irony of British Human Rights Exceptionalism, 1948–1998	0
Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives Rebecca J. Cook ed.	0
Colonial Compensation and the Judicial Process: South Korea–Japan Disputes Revisited	0
Global Value Chains, Labor Rights, and the Nature of Transnational Law	0
The Taiwanese Roots of East Asia’s War Redress Movement: An Alternate Genealogy	0
Globetrotting Advocates: Foreign Barristers in Hong Kong Courts	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 Legality Trap: Legal Co-optation Under Authoritarianism	0
EU Law in Populist Times: Crises and Prospects	0
Marta Cartabia & Nicola Lupo, The Constitution of Italy: A Contextual Analysis (Hart Publishing, 2022)	0
Redefining Law in China	0
Awakening Europe’s Giant	0
Making Legal Transplant Meaningful in a New Context: Geographical Indications from Europe to China	0
The Womb Monologues: Toward A Mizrahi Feminist Theory of Israeli Law	0
Overcoming Corporate Separateness: The Early Origins of Group Liability for Workers and Beyond	0
Decoding Judicial Cross-Citations: How Do European Judges Engage with Foreign Case Law?	0
The U.S. National Report on the Independence and Impartiality of International Adjudicators	0

Index	0
Sustainable Development in Comparative Constitutional Design	0
For Whose Sake and Benefit? A Critical Analysis of Leading International Treaty Proposals to Protect Nonhuman Animals	0
Legal Perspectives on the Streaming Industry: The United States	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2022: Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey	0
The False Hope of Stewardship in the Context of Controlling Shareholders: Making Sense Out of the Global Transplant of a Legal Misfit	0
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal Globalization and the Subversion of Liberal Democracy	0
The Relationship Between Global Law and the Individual: Symbiosis, Oscillation, and Strategic Subjectification	0
Constitutional Repair: A Comparative Theory	0
Family Law and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Change and Stasis in the Arab Spring	0
First Nations’ Citizenship and Kinship Compared: Belonging’s Stake in Legality	0
Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence	0
Acquisitive Prescription of Artwork and Other High-Value Movables: A Comparative Case Study of Litigation and Legislation in Louisiana, Germany, and Russia	0
Corporate Law and Political Economy in a Kleptocracy	0
The Non-Marital Presumption	0
The Myth of Transnational Public Policy in International Arbitration	0
Intestacy and Inequality Under China’s Revised Succession Law	0
Property Law: Comparative, Empirical and Economic Analysis	0
Autonomous Vehicles and Liability Law	0
Substantive Legitimate Expectations: Re-shaping the Boundaries of Judicial Reach in Public Law Remedies in Commonwealth Jurisdictions	0
Transnational Configurations of the Criminalization–Racialization Nexus and the Origins of International Cannabis Prohibitions	0
Response to Professor Ruskola	0
Outsourcing Legal Modernity: Late Colonial Constitutionalism in Muslim Northern Nigeria	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 Legal Metaverse and Comparative Taxonomy: A Reappraisal	0
On Comparative Law’s Repressed Colonial Governance	0
Insolvency Law in the Global South: Lessons for the Global North	0
Court Curbing in the United Kingdom	0
Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, or How Not to Study Chinese Law	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
Mandatory Review Provisions in Constitutional Design: An Overview	0
András Koltay , Media Freedom and the Law: The Regulation of a Common European Idea (Routledge 2025)	0
The Autonomy-Based Account of Chinese Trust Laws	0
After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It	0
Rechtsvergleichung im Völkerrecht	0
Constitutional Dialogue Under Pressure: Constitutional Remedies in Israel as a Test Case	0
A New Legal Form for Social Enterprises in Asia	0
Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction	0
Support for Constitutional Rights During Crisis: Evidence from the Pandemic	0
Access to Civil Justice	0
Is Neutrality Possible? A Critique of the CJEU on Headscarves in the Workplace from a Comparative Perspective	0
The Varieties of Protestant House Churches: Beyond Authoritarian Legality	0
The Perils of Gender Self-Determination: Global Shifts in Sex Reclassification Law and Policy	0
Index	0
The War Within Religion: Towards a More Nuanced Resolution of Religion–Equality Conflicts	0
National Security Secrecy: Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2025: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Changing of the Guard: Two “Gatekeepers” Bid Adieu	0
Pejorative Assertions, Human Rights Evaluation, and European Veiling Laws	0
Are Political “Attacks” on the Judiciary Ever Justifiable? The Relationship Between Unfair Criticism and Public Accountability	0
The Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights	0
Lawful but Awful: Evolving Legislative Responses to Address Online Misinformation, Disinformation, and Mal-Information in the Age of Generative AI	0
Jacqueline E. Ross & Thierry Delpeuch , Making Sense of Youth Crime: A Comparison of Police Intelligence in the United States and France	0
Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Private International Law in Classical Muslim International Law	0
Tax Procedure and Distributive Discourse: The Case of Classical Athens	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
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2023: Thirty-Seventh Annual Survey	0
Generality and Exception in Islamic Legal Theory: Intent, Language, and the Jurist’s Role	0
Federalism and Vertical Tax Competition	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2022: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Criminalizing Atrocities: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes	0
Proportionality and Transformation : Theory and Practice From Latin America (Francisca Pou-Giménez, Laura Clérico &	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2023: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Administrative Procedure Acts in Europe: An Emerging “Common Core”?	0
Legal Heterodoxy in the Global South: Priority of Workers versus Secured Creditors in Insolvency	0
Comparing the Machineries of Extradition: Between Functional and Cultural Approaches	0
From Legal Transplants to Policy Irritants: Chinese Economic Expansion and Global Legal Change	0
Constitutional Morality: An Indian Framework	0