OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Law and Society is 1. 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
From Car Wash to Bolsonaro: Law and Lawyers in Brazil's Illiberal Turn (2014–2018)	17
Tax Fraud and Selective Law Enforcement	16
The provenance of what is proven: exploring (mock) jury deliberation in Scottish rape trials	12
Continuities of exploitation: seasonal migrant workers in German agriculture during the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
Making the State Responsible: Intersex Embodiment, Medical Jurisdiction, and State Responsibility	10
The price of positionality: assessing the benefits and burdens of self‐identification in research methods	9
Labour Constitutions and Occupational Communities: Social Norms and Legal Norms at Work	8
Remote rituals in virtual courts	8
The ‘Fight against Corruption’ in Brazil from the 2000s: A Political Crusade through Judicial Activism	8
Seeking campus justice: challenging the ‘criminal justice drift’ in United Kingdom university responses to student sexual violence and misconduct	7
Participation in a time of climate crisis	6
Finding a way to live with the past: ‘self‐repair’, ‘informal repair’, and reparations in transitional justice	6
Law, technology, and data‐driven security: infra‐legalities as method assemblage	6
Ultimate Legality: Reading the Community of Law	6
Transnational Jihadism and the Role of Criminal Judges: An Ethnography of French Courts	5
Gender diversity on Malaysian corporate boards: a law and social movements perspective	5
Naming, blaming, claiming: an interview with Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat	5
‘Paedophile Hunters’, Criminal Procedure, and Fundamental Human Rights	5
What does gender equality need? Revisiting the formal and informal in feminist legal politics	4
Caught in an Authoritarian Trap of Its Own Making? Brazil's ‘Lava Jato’ Anti‐Corruption Investigation and the Politics of Prosecutorial Overreach	4
The Remarkable Rise of ‘Law and Historical Memory’ in Europe: Theorizing Trends and Prospects in the Recent Literature	4
Jurist in Context: William Twining in Conversation with David Sugarman	3
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase: the transformation from a justiciable problem into a legal dispute	3
Socio‐Legal Studies in 2020	3
Law, ‘presentist’ agendas, and the making of ‘official’ memory after collective violence	3

The politics of the production of knowledge on trauma: the Grenfell Tower Inquiry	3
When law and data collide: the methodological challenge of conducting mixed methods research in law	3
From contestation to conviction: terrorism expertise before the courts	3
Capabilities, capacity, and consent: sexual intimacy in the Court of Protection	3
Legal mobilization without resources? How civil society organizations generate and share alternative resources in vulnerable communities	3
Independent separate legal representation for rape complainants in adversarial systems: lessons from Northern Ireland	3
Introduction: Wars on Law, Wars through Law? Law and Lawyers in Times of Crisis	2
‘Left Pessimists’ in ‘Rose Coloured Glasses’? Reflections on the Political Economy of Socio‐Legal Studies and (Legal) Academic Well‐Being	2
Labour is labour: what surrogates can learn from the Sex Work Is Work movement	2
Faces of hunger: an intersectional approach to children's right to food in the United Kingdom	2
Home: A Vehicle for Resistance? Exploring Emancipatory Entanglements of ‘Vehicle Dwelling’ in a Changing Policy Context	2
Gendering the Legal Complex: Women in Sri Lanka's Legal Profession	2
Feminist judging in lower courts	2
Governing canal life	2
Participation as a Framework for Analysing Consumers’ Experiences of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)	2
From shame to guilt: negotiating moral and legal responsibility within apologies for historical institutional abuse	2
Partition by Degrees: Routine Exceptions in Border and Immigration Practice between the UK and Ireland, 1921–1972	2
Beyond Social Constructionism? Cicourel and the Search for Ecological Validity	2
Disability Law as an Academic Discipline: Towards Cohesion and Mainstreaming?	2
Paper chains: tied visas, migration policies, and legal coercion	2
‘What about the poor people's rights?’ The dismantling of social citizenship through access to justice and welfare reform policy	2
The crafty power of text: methods for a sociology of legislative drafting	2
The centres and margins of transnational law: potential developments and methodological challenges	1
Invisible labour: legal dimensions of invisibilization	1
Belonging beyond the binary: from Byzantine eunuchs and Indian hijras to gender‐fluid and non‐binary identities	1
Redefining consent: rape law reform, reasonable belief, and communicative responsibility	1
Speaking up: why people dare to sue the government in China	1
A reflection on 30 years of complementary collaboration	1
Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making	1
Selecting a lawyer: the practical arrangement of police station legal assistance	1
Economic Crises, Crisis of Labour Law? Lessons from Weimar	1
Journeying the everyday of civic space: movement as method in socio‐legal studies	1
‘F**k this game … I'm off’: financial and emotional factors in declining legal representation in miscarriage of justice cases	1
Intermediaries in the criminal justice system and the ‘neutrality paradox’	1
‘Victims not wrongdoers’: the legal consciousness of rejected asylum seekers in Norway	1
Indications of goal displacement induced by budget cuts and output management: a case study of a regulatory enforcement agency in the Netherlands	1
Law against the Rule of Law: Assaulting Democracy	1
Arbitration vis‐à‐vis other professions: a sociology of professions account of international commercial arbitrators	1
Justifying and practising effective participation in the Court of Protection: an empirical study^*	1
It's about time: investigating the temporal in socio‐legal studies through unstructured interviews	1
The Changing Position of Legal Academics in the United Kingdom: Professionalization or Proletarianization?	1
A tale of many jurisdictions: how universal jurisdiction is creating a transnational judicial space	1
Where are the numbers? Challenging the barriers to quantitative socio‐legal scholarship in the United Kingdom	1
Neoliberalism, family law, and the devaluation of care	1
Administrative Justice in Wales	1
What can contract law learn from #MeToo?	1
Vehicles for justice: buses and advancement	1
‘Wrong’ cases and ‘wrong’ plaintiffs: intergenerational relationships and legal consciousness in China	1
Values in the Supreme Court: Decisions, Division and Diversity by RachelCahill‐O'Callaghan (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 232 pp., £54.00)	1
Tradition and reinvention: the making and unmaking of herbal medicines in the UK	1

Mobilizing anti‐discrimination law: the litigation strategies of UK and French trade unions compared	1
Guilty pleas in children: legitimacy, vulnerability, and the need for increased protection	1
Judicial Procedural Involvement (JPI): A Metric for Judges’ Role in Civil Litigation, Settlement, and Access to Justice	1
Legislating for a Pandemic: Exposing the Stateless State	1
Navigating internet‐mediated ethnography for socio‐legal researchers	1
Synthesize this: integrating innovation governance and EU regulation of synthetic biology	1
Gendered ‘Objective’ Patent Law: Of Binaries and a Singularity	1