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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	18
Symbolic Rule of Law Promotion	16
Taxation, Lactation, and Validation: The Symbolic Power of Tax Law to Legitimize Breast Milk Expression	16
The Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia	15
Revealing the Hidden Influencers: Euro-Lawyers as Ghostwriters of European Legal Integration	14
The Failed Idea of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History	12
From Taxi to Didi: Voice and Balancing in the Industrial Transition	12
Agency Entrenchment: Sociological Legitimacy in a Politically Contested Occupation	10
Law and the Political Discourse of Skill	9
Public Participation, Group Inclusion, and the Durability of National Constitutions	9
International Book Essay Section	9
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy	9
Constituting Religious Conflict in a Multicultural State	8
Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices	8
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	7
How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law	7
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections	7
Subduing Asylum-Seekers’ Voices: Narrative Genres and the Impossibility of Credibility Tests During Refugee Status Determination Hearings	7
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-2020	7
The Atrato River as a Bearer and Co-creator of Rights: Unveiling Black People’s Legal Mobilization Processes in Colombia	7
African Constitutionalism: Between Power, Persuasion, and Irrelevance?	7
Business Courts as Loci of Privilege: The Business Judgment Rule Abroad	7
State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice	7
The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy	6
State-Enabled Killing of Same-Sex-Attracted People: A Legal Pluralist Account	6

LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	6
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment	6
Property Markers and the Hassle of Leniency: Building Code Enforcement in the Courtroom	6
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims	6
Marginalized Identity and Active Resistance: Milwaukee Socialists and German-Americans During World War I	6
Judging Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice	5
“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	5
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession	5
Threat to Family Stability or Social Stability? Domestic Violence Protection Orders in Two Chinese Courts	5
Remembering Internet Openness: From the Information Age to the Disinformation Era	5
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	5
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe	5
Book Notes	5
Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?	4
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining “Community” in Participatory Research	4
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives	4
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan	4
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts	4
The Judge Is “No Snitch”: A Progressive Era Collision between Juvenile Justice and Criminal Law	4
Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox	4
India’s Quotidian Constitution	4
The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”	4
Preference or Penalty? The Law and Employers’ Diverging Hiring Intentions of Latino Immigrants	4
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship	4
International Book Essay Section	4
Book Notes	4
Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality	4
Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance	3
Crimmigrating Narratives: Examining Third-Party Observations of US Detained Immigration Court	3
Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials	3
Is White-Collar Crime White? Racialization in the National Press Coverage of White-Collar Crime from 1950 to 2010	3
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
Book Notes	3
Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice	3
Ethnographies of Counterterrorism Trials in India	3
Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service	3
LSI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline	3
Toward a Sociology of International Law: John Hagan and Beyond	3
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy	3
International Book Essay Section	3
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration	3
How the Public Became the Caller: The Emergence of Reactive Policing, 1880–1970	2
The Anthropology of Legal Form: Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Transnational Law	2
Democracies and Non-Democracies: The Use of International Law and Institutions	2
Caring Like a State: Publicizing Family Caregiving through Medicalization	2
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture: Reimagining the Implications and Meanings of Black Litigiousness in Slavery and Freedom	2

“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar	2
Appointed or Elected: How Justices on Elected State Supreme Courts Are Actually Selected	2
New Approaches to Socio-legal Writing: Locating Sovereignty Between the State and Society in India	2
Diverse Disconnectedness: Homophily, Social Capital Inequality, and Student Experiences in Law School	2
International Book Essay Section	2
Constitutional Roots of Judicial Populism in India	2
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism: Seeking Justice for Witchcraft Harms in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	2
Book Notes	2
Book Notes	2
Revolving Doors: Social Dimensions of Law Firm Culture and Pathways out of Firms	2
Prefigurative Legality	2
Measures of Justice: A Symposium in Honor of Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)	2
Court Watching’s Promise: A Preliminary Survey	2
Money As Justice: Work-Related Deaths, Victim Workers’ Families, and Injustice in Turkey	2
Authoritarian Legacies in Law and Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Turkey’s Specially Authorized Courts	2
The Justice Gap for Unaccompanied Children in US Immigration Court: Rurality, Resources, and Client Characteristics as Determinants of Access to Counsel	2