OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	16
International Book Essay Section	15
Agency Entrenchment: Sociological Legitimacy in a Politically Contested Occupation	12
Negotiating Status: Pro Bono Partners and Counsels in Large Law Firms	12
Taxation, Lactation, and Validation: The Symbolic Power of Tax Law to Legitimize Breast Milk Expression	11
From Taxi to Didi: Voice and Balancing in the Industrial Transition	10
The Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia	10
Public Participation, Group Inclusion, and the Durability of National Constitutions	10
Revealing the Hidden Influencers: Euro-Lawyers as Ghostwriters of European Legal Integration	9
The Failed Idea of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History	8
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy	8
Symbolic Rule of Law Promotion	8
Law and the Political Discourse of Skill	7
International Book Essay Section	7
African Constitutionalism: Between Power, Persuasion, and Irrelevance?	6
Constituting Religious Conflict in a Multicultural State	6
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	6
Subduing Asylum-Seekers’ Voices: Narrative Genres and the Impossibility of Credibility Tests During Refugee Status Determination Hearings	6
Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices	6
The Atrato River as a Bearer and Co-creator of Rights: Unveiling Black People’s Legal Mobilization Processes in Colombia	5
Business Courts as Loci of Privilege: The Business Judgment Rule Abroad	5
State-Enabled Killing of Same-Sex-Attracted People: A Legal Pluralist Account	5
The Gender Pay Gap and High-Achieving Women in the Legal Profession	5
Rethinking Sanctuary: The Origins of Non-Cooperation Policies in Social Welfare Agencies	5
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-2020	5

State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice	5
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections	5
Torture in Thailand at the Limits of Law	5
Marginalized Identity and Active Resistance: Milwaukee Socialists and German-Americans During World War I	4
The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy	4
Book Notes	4
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law	4
Property Markers and the Hassle of Leniency: Building Code Enforcement in the Courtroom	4
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims	4
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment	4
Judging Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice	4
Book Notes	3
Book Notes	3
“I’ve Had Cases That Have Gone in the Wrong Direction and That Has Affected Me”: A Qualitative Examination of Decision Making, Liminality, and the Emotional Aspects of Parole Work	3
The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”	3
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship	3
Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox	3
International Book Essay Section	3
India’s Quotidian Constitution	3
Threat to Family Stability or Social Stability? Domestic Violence Protection Orders in Two Chinese Courts	3
Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession	3
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan	3
Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives	3
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts	3
Long-Term Contractual Commitments and Our Future Selves	3
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe	3
Remembering Internet Openness: From the Information Age to the Disinformation Era	3
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining “Community” in Participatory Research	3
Preference or Penalty? The Law and Employers’ Diverging Hiring Intentions of Latino Immigrants	3
Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice	3
Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality	3
Toward a Sociology of International Law: John Hagan and Beyond	2
Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?	2
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy	2
International Book Essay Section	2
Authoritarian Legacies in Law and Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Turkey’s Specially Authorized Courts	2
Appointed or Elected: How Justices on Elected State Supreme Courts Are Actually Selected	2
Is White-Collar Crime White? Racialization in the National Press Coverage of White-Collar Crime from 1950 to 2010	2
Crimmigrating Narratives: Examining Third-Party Observations of US Detained Immigration Court	2
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	2
The Judge Is “No Snitch”: A Progressive Era Collision between Juvenile Justice and Criminal Law	2
Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service	2
LSI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture: Reimagining the Implications and Meanings of Black Litigiousness in Slavery and Freedom	2
Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials	2
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline	2

Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance	2
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration	2
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	2
Captured Courts and Legitimized Autocrats: Transforming Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court	2
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism: Seeking Justice for Witchcraft Harms in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	2