OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ICON-International Journal of Constitutional 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise of digital constitutionalism in the European Union	35
The bound executive: Emergency powers during the pandemic	20
Mind the gap: Analyzing the divergence between constitutional text and constitutional reality	19
Transitional justice and the challenges of a feminist peace	7
The dual aversion of Chile’s constitution-making process	7
Judicial self-dealing and unconstitutional constitutional amendments in South Asia	7
When and how to legally challenge economic globalization: A comment on the German Constitutional Court’s false promise	6
Parties versus democracy: Addressing today’s political party threats to democratic rule	6
Poland and Hungary’s EU membership: On not confronting authoritarian governments	5
Populist rhetoric, false mirroring, and the courts	5
Comparative court-packing	5
Technological revolution, democratic recession, and climate change: The limits of law in a changing world	5
The corruption of popular sovereignty	5
The personal is political: The feminist critique of liberalism and the challenge of right-wing populism	4
Comparative political process theory	4
Empirical research in comparative constitutional law: The cool kid on the block or all smoke and mirrors?	4
“De-gendering” the civil status? A public law problem	4
The sovereignty surplus	4
From promise to retrenchment: On the changing landscape of Israeli constitutionalism	3
Constitutional democracy in the time of elected authoritarians	3
What constitutes compliance? Legislative responses to Constitutional Court decisions in Indonesia	3
Populists, gender, and national identity	3
Is it time to abandon the theory of constituent power?	3
The populist challenge to the European Court of Human Rights	3
Micronations: A lacuna in the law	3

Small-c constitutional rights	3
Understanding Chile’s constitution-making procedure	2
Against settlement before the European Court of Human Rights	2
La idea de un derecho común en América Latina a la luz de sus críticasThe idea of a common law in Latin America in light of its critiques	2
Constitutional pluralism and loyal opposition	2
Constructing a regional human rights legal order: The Inter-American Court, national courts, and judicial dialogue, 1988–2014	2
Whither judicial dialogue after convergence? Finding transnational public law in nomos-building	2
The invention of tradition: Same-sex marriage and its discontents in Hong Kong	2
2019 global review of constitutional law: North Macedonia	2
Constitutional rights, horizontality, and the Ugandan Constitution: An example of emerging norms and practices in Africa	2
Constitutional rigidity: The Mexican experiment	2
The (mis)appropriation of human rights by the new global right: An introduction to the Symposium	2
Judicial dialogue on data retention laws: A breakthrough for European constitutional courts?	2
The diminishing status of international law in the decisions of the Israeli Supreme Court concerning the Occupied Territories	2
The Indian Constitution: Moments, epics and everyday lives	2
Constitutionalizing a perpetual transition: The “integration” of the Pashtun “tribal areas” in Pakistan	2
On scholactivism in constitutional studies: Skeptical thoughts	2
Constraining constituent conventions: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and the limits of pouvoir constituant	2
Ending the passport apartheid. The alternative to citizenship is no citizenship—A reply	2
From hierarchical to panoptic control: The Chinese solution in monitoring judges	2
Shifting meanings of fazhi and China’s journey toward socialist rule of law	2
When the personal becomes political: Rethinking legal fatherhood	2
Crown-Presidentialism	2
A view from the top: An examination of postfeminist sensibilities in women leaders’ constructions of success and responses to gender inequality in English football	1
Assessing the impact of Covid-19 on teaching and research: A Ghanaian perspective	1
Malleable monuments and comparative cultural property law: The Balbo monument between the United States and Italy	1
Gender recognition at the crossroads: Four models and the compass of comparative law	1
Rawls and right-wing populism— A qualified defense of the former: A reply to Gila Stopler	1
Democracy and decolonization: How India was made	1
Citizenship at a crossroad	1
Conceptual realism and imperial nostalgia in Chinese legal historiography	1
Can the people exercise constituent power?	1
The gatekeepers: Executive lawyers and the executive power in comparative constitutional law	1
Football feminism: Global governance perspectives	1
The case for supermajority requirements in referendums	1
The mysterious meeting between Carl Schmitt and Josef Redlich	1
Speaking truth to power: Legal scholars as survivors and witnesses of the Covid-19 maternal mortality in Brazil	1
Para-constitutional engineering and federalism: Informal constitutional change through intergovernmental agreements	1
Huehue constitutionalism	1
Translating the concept of “cultural identity” in public policies: Between the international and the national, and the tangible and intangible dimension	1
Rousseau’s illiberal constitutionalism: Austerity, domination, and the circumstances of politics	1
Federalism’s radical potential	1
Constitutional design for dynamic democracies: A framework for analysis	1
“It’s the political economy . . .!” A moment of truth for the eurozone and the EU	1
Why Weiss? The I•CON symposium: Preface	1
Citizenship’s double-edged sword: Locating liberalism and illiberalism in citizenship	1
Executive policy development and constitutional norms: Practice and perceptions	1
Standing in the shadows of balancing: Proportionality and the necessity test	1
The struggle for social constructivism in postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe	1
Conceptualizing the role of courts in peace processes	1

The gender pay gap: How FIFA dropped the ball	1
Resurrecting positive action	1
Judicial amendment of the constitution	1
Diminishing constitutional law: The first three decades of women’s exclusion adjudication in Israel	1
Constricting rights, imagining identities: The impact on real lives—A rejoinder to Maja Sahadžić	1
Securing cultural heritage? Understanding the law for our monuments, artworks, and archives today	1
La evolución de la relación normativa entre el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos y los sistemas jurídicos nacionalesThe evolution of the normative relationship between the Interamerican Syste	1
Rights-based constitutionalism and gender justice in Colombian women’s soccer	1
Dialogue and distrust: John Hart Ely and the Canadian Charter	1
Calibrating the response to populism at the European Court of Human Rights	1
Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions	1
The causes and consequences of a judicialized peace process in Colombia	1
The switch: The Israel High Court of Justice’s transition from occupation law to human rights law	1
The long making of India’s Constitution: Letters from the past	1
Elements for FIFA’s feminist transformation: The case for indicators on football and women’s rights	1
Continuity and change in human rights appropriation: The case of Turkey	1
Gendered nationalism and constitutionalism	1
¿Límites de tratados internacionales al poder constituyente? Análisis del caso chilenoLimits of international treaties to the constituent power? Analysis of the Chilean case	1
“Rule of law” with Chinese characteristics: Evolution and manipulation	1
A double-edged sword: Constitutional dialogue confined	1
European integration: Quo vadis? A critical commentary on the PSPP judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court of May 5, 2020	1
Law and land conflict in emerging market economies: Ethiopia, 2014–2018	1
Institutions that define the policymaking role of courts: A comparative analysis of the supreme courts of Scandinavia	1
A margin for the margin of appreciation: Deference in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	1
Engendering a constitutional moment: The quest for parity in the Chilean Constitutional Convention	1
The interaction of human rights and religion in Africa’s sexuality politics	1
Conventions and practical interpretation in Westminster-type constitutional systems	1
Scandalizing the judiciary: An analysis of the uneven response of the Supreme Court of India to sexual harassment allegations against judges	1
2019 global review of constitutional law: Georgia	1
Single equality in the age of marriage equality	1
Revolutions, real contradictions, and the method of resolving them: The relationship between the Court of Justice of the European Union and the German Federal Constitutional Court	1
Taking feminism beyond the state: FIFA as a transnational battleground for feminist legal critique	1
The effectiveness of (Rabbinic) prenuptial agreements in preventing marital captivity	1
Ely in the world: The global legacy of Democracy and Distrust forty years on	1
What would a pluralist institutional approach to constitutional interpretation look like? Some methodological implications	1
A broad read of Ely: Political process theory for fragile democracies	1
The sovereignty deficit: Afterword to the Foreword by Neil Walker	1
A core case for supermajority rules in constitutional adjudication	1
How can constitutional review experiments fail? Lessons from the 1925 Chilean Constitution	1
“Knowledge comes with responsibility”: Why academic ivory towerism can’t be the answer to legal scholactivism	1
Charting a way forward? Post-juristocracy, democratic decay, and the limits of Gardbaum’s valuable theory	1
Filing the world: Archives as cultural heritage and the power of remembering	1
Proportionality and procedure of monetary policy-making	1
The CJEU and EU (de-)constitutionalization: Unpacking jurisprudential responses	1
(Un)constitutional change rooted in peace agreements	1
Negotiating Jewish divorce	1