OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of International Economic Law 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Last year’s model? Investment arbitration, negotiation, and the gap between Model BITs and IIAs	24
Economic progress versus cultural preservation: insights from ‘cultural heritage in international economic law’	16
Monitoring Agriculture Policy at the WTO: Insights from a New Quantitative Database	16
Individuals and the microfoundations of the compliance process: affect and ISDS	15
Overcoming the circularity divide: accelerating a circular apparel transition in Africa through trade	14
The Curious Case of Stablecoins—Balancing Risks and Rewards?	13
Treaty influencers: a computational analysis of the development of international investment law	12
Anti-deforestation npr-PPMs and Carbon Border Measures: Thinking About the Chapeau of Article XX GATT in Times of Climate Crisis	12
Conjuring markets: valuation in comparative international economic law	9
Under the Radar—The Return of Member States in EU Investment Policy	9
Taking Stakeholder Engagement in International Policy-Making Seriously: Is the WTO Finally Opening Up?	9
The Evolution of the ‘Trade and …’ ‘Debate’—A View from ASEAN	8
Excellence in Reviewing Award	8
Supporting trade negotiations with sustainable development impact assessments	8
Global justice in the reshaping of international tax	8
International Economic Law in the ‘Asian Century’	8
Recasting UNCITRAL Working Group III	7
The right to regulate and the interpretation of the WTO Agreement	7
Re-thinking the sustainability of sovereign debt	6
Friction theory and conflict prevention in legal analysis	6
Promoting Renewable Energy: The Mutual Supportiveness of Climate Trade Law. By ALESSANDRO MONTI, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. ISBN: 978 1 80392 077 1	6
Globalization 2.0: the geopolitics of the U.S. Exchange Stabilization Fund, 1934–45	5
And the lawsuits kept rolling in	5
Trade Law 4.0: Are We There Yet?	5
Competition Law and Economic Inequality: A Comparative Analysis of the US Model of Law	5

Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Strategy for Trade-Security	5
A socio-legal examination of Belize’s debt swap from a human rights perspective	4
A New Chapter in China’s Stance on Labour Protection? An Assessment of the China–EU CAI	4
Climate change and oil and gas production regulation: an impossible reconciliation?	4
International investment agreements and the global minimum tax: of treaty troubles and investment incentives	4
The trade and environment nexus: proposing a broad universal definition of environmental services	4
Building norms of economic coercion	4
The Future of the BRI: A New Context and New Issues	4
The silent giant: China’s inaction on global minimum tax legislation	4
Lost in conversion: rethinking investment treaty protection against retroactive regulation in the wake of the ‘Francogeddon’	4
Peaceful settlement of inter-state energy disputes: applicable law, defence arguments, and remedies in the ICC arbitration between Iraq and Turkey	4
Preserving the Crown Jewel	3
Chinese companies in tax havens	3
Chronicle of a crisis foretold: how the WTO Appellate Body drove itself into a corner	3
Compatibility of emerging AI regulation with GATS and TBT: the EU Artificial Intelligence Act	3
The Legalization of Cannabis and the Question of Reparations	3
Corruption-related provisions in East and South Asian investment agreements: an empirical analysis	3
Neoliberalism, Ordoliberalism and the Future of Economic Governance	3
Maintaining Relevance in a Much-Changed World: Reforming WTO Dispute Settlement	3
Discourses of ISDS reform: a comparison of UNCITRAL Working Group III and ICSID processes	3
Dynamic diffusion	3
How to safeguard social objectives of intellectual property rights in the context of investment arbitration	3
From Bananas to Large Civil Aircraft: An On-Going Quest for Value-Added in the Computation of Countermeasures at the WTO	3
Critical insecurities? The European Union’s strategy for a stable supply of minerals	3
How Trump’s trade agreements can reduce US and allied economic ties with China	3
International adjudication as interactional law-making: the incorporation of fair and equitable treatment elements in investment treaties	3
The rise of data property rights in China: how does it compare with the EU data act and what does it mean for digital trade with China?	3
International Regulation of Industrial Subsidy	2
EU Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments: Revisiting the Consultation Process	2
Compensation and its Limits: Can Trade’s Losers be Made Whole?	2
Aligning climate needs and intellectual property: an entitlement-based framework for green technology transfer	2
New (Paradigms In) International Economic Law	2
Full Protection and Security (for Racial Capitalism)	2
The role of the United Nations in ensuring equitable tax policies for developing countries	2
The Strategies of the International Chamber of Commerce to Eliminate Double Taxation	2
Shareholding Formulas in International Financial Institutions: Learning From the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank	2
Towards a post-Trump order for the climate crisis	2
Policy Space for Capital Flow Management: An Empirical Investigation	2
Home remedies: flexibilities to onshore pharmaceutical manufacturing under WTO rules	2
The EU Sustainable Finance Framework in Light of International Standards	2
The laws of financial decoupling: financial lawfare in US–China friction	2
Excellence in Reviewing Award	2
Compensating uncertainty: the case of mineral resource exploration in ISDS	2
Energy in International Trade Law: Concepts, Regulation and Changing Markets	2
Rethinking taxing rights	2
Correction to: Rethinking the Role of Indigenous Peoples as Rightsholders, Stakeholders, and Valuable Market Participants in the Global Trade and Investment Spaces	2
New Asian Regionalism in International Economic Law	2
Compliance politics and international investment disputes: a new dataset	2
The WTO’S Contribution to the Challenges of Global Commons	2
Geoeconomics and financial statecraft in the European Union: the case of critical market infrastructures	2

25 Years of Law and Practice at the WTO: Did the Appellate Body Dig its Own Grave?	2
Confronting the perils of datafication through international economic law	2
Reforming and repurposing agricultural subsidies to facilitate trade and sustainability	2
ISDS and Its Transformations	1
Trade Agreements and Sustainability: Exploring the Potential of Global Value Chain (GVC) Obligations	1
Markets, Sovereignty, and Racialization	1
Straining the Spaghetti Bowl: Re-Evaluating the Regulation of Preferential Rules of Origin	1
Applying International Economic Law to Artificial Intelligence	1
The responsibility of international organizations revisited: a functional approach for the EU in the international economic context	1
Incorporating Rights: Strategies to Advance Corporate Accountability	1
Energy disciplines in PTAs between security and sustainability concerns: a comparative perspective	1
Main Act or Side Show? Model Agreements by International Institutions and Their Reuse in Investment Treaty Texts	1
Sustainable Finance and Sovereign Debt: The Illusion to Govern by Contract	1
Towards a ‘security-centred’ energy transition: balancing the European Union’s ambitions and geopolitical realities	1
The dilemma of sovereign debt enforcement	1
The Energy Charter Treaty at a critical juncture: of knowns, unknowns, and lasting significance	1
Lithium in International Law: Trade, Investment, and the Pursuit of Supply Chain Justice	1
The Judicial Function of Investment Tribunals: Taking Foundational Assumptions Seriously	1
Data governance and international trade law: exploring paths towards convergence	1
Corporate Power and Accountability in International Economic Law	1
Indebted Impunity and Violence in a Lesser State: Ethno-Racial Capitalism in Sri Lanka	1
International Taxation, Globalization, and the Economic Digital Divide	1
Drafting Investment Law: Patterns of Influence in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)	1
Transnational economic activism and private regulatory power	1
An Archilochean anthology from Japan on the mutable dynamics in international economic law	1
Investment Facilitation and Sustainable Development: Insufficiencies and Improvements of ASEAN Investment Treaties	1
A tool is not a strategy: technology security amidst contested global orders	1
Toward best practices for trade-security measures	1
Border carbon adjustment compliance and the WTO: the interactional evolution of law	1
The Illegitimacy of Joint Statement Initiatives and Their Systemic Implications for the WTO	1
Mining in investment arbitration: an analysis of mining companies’ legitimate expectations	1
International institutions in global tax governance	1
The IMF’s Evolving Role Within a Constant Mandate	1
‘Moral’ Determinations in WTO Law: Lessons from the Seals Dispute	1
Platforms and Global Governance: Globalization on Steroids	1
Using multilateral instruments to preserve a bilateral system	1