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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Las agencias reguladoras independientes y sus desafíos de legitimidad democrática: revisión de literatura y agenda para el derecho constitucional en Latinoamérica	27
Gender, democracy, and the legal academy: Afterword to the Foreword by Gráinne de Búrca, Rosalind Dixon, and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy	21
Repensando los préstamos constitucionales: un análisis crítico del uso de materiales foráneos desde la experiencia argentina	15
The non-constitutionalization and avoidant constitutionalization of gender in Czechia and Slovakia	10
Dos ejes para pensar la tensión entre el sistema interamericano de derechos humanos y los sistemas constitucionales de la regiónTwo axes to consider the tension between the Inter-American System of Hu	10
Party constitutionalization in socialist regimes	9
The constitutional impact of rule-of-law spending conditionality	9
Traditional values, family, homeschooling: The role of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church in transnational moral conservative networks and their efforts at reshaping human rights	9
¿Por qué era urgente que los jefes de Estado condenaran la elección fraudulenta que tuvo lugar en Venezuela en el año 2024?Why was it urgent that heads of state condemned the 2024 Venezuelan fraudulen	8
What would a pluralist institutional approach to constitutional interpretation look like? Some methodological implications	8
The myth of populist constitutionalism in Hungary and Poland: Populist or authoritarian constitutionalism?	8
Jonathan Hafetz, Review of Lawrence Repeta. Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War	7
Law, film, and trans identity in Hong Kong	6
Control and paralysis? A context-sensitive analysis of objections to supermajorities in constitutional adjudication	6
La judicialización de la política y el control constitucional en modelos híbridos restringidos: el activismo judicial por “defecto” de ParaguayThe judicialization of politics and judicial review in re	6
The switch: The Israel High Court of Justice’s transition from occupation law to human rights law	6
Constitucionalismo transformador y derecho internacional de inversionesTransformative constitutionalism and international investment law	5
A constitutional court’s survival (by any name)	5
Mariana Canales Subercaseaux, Review of Aileen Kavanagh. The Collaborative Constitution.	5
Sanford Levinson, Review of Yasuo Hasebe, Towards a Normal Constitutional State: The Trajectory of Japanese Constitutionalism	4
Chief justices and democratic resilience: Judicial leadership in times of constitutional crisis	4
Taking global administrative law one step ahead: Online giants and the digital democratic sphere	4
Oratorical leadership of chief justices in post-handover Hong Kong	4
No higher law: The Uruguayan plebiscite of 1980 as a failed constituent moment	4
Tímea Drinóczi & Agnieszka Bień-Kacała. Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary: The Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of Law.	4

Constraining constituent conventions: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and the limits of pouvoir constituant	4
Conventions and practical interpretation in Westminster-type constitutional systems	4
Constitucionalismo fuerte y democracia deliberativa: Inconsistencias en Rawls, Dworkin, y AlexyStrong constitutionalism and deliberative democracy: Inconsistencies in Rawls, Dworkin, and Alexy	4
Oran Doyle, Review of David S. Law (ed.). Constitutionalism in Context	4
Silvia Romboli, Review of Luigi Ferrajoli, Per una Costituzione della Terra. L’umanità al bivio	4
The concept of coup d’état under stifling stress: Legal theory’s political-science–based response	4
Appropriation and the rewriting of rights	4
Vicente Aylwin Fernández, Review of Joshua Braver. We, the Mediated People: Popular Constitution-Making in Contemporary South America	3
Aileen Kavanagh. The Collaborative Constitution	3
Brian Christopher Jones, Review of Jack Beatson, Key Ideas in Law: The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers	3
The normative development of laws on asset preservation and confiscation: An examination of emerging best practices	3
Maris Köpcke, Review of Leah Trueblood. Referendums as Representative Democracy	3
Social and political dynamics in the feminization of judiciary	3
Mobilizing constitutional identity: Transformative constitutionalism and the threat of illiberalism in South Africa	3
Revolutionary amnesia and the nature of prerogative power	3
Constitutional parasitism, camouflage, and pretense: Shaping citizenship through subterfuge	3
Responsive judicial review and democracy: Examining Rosalind Dixon’s theory of judicial review	3
Wen-Chen Chang, Kelley Loper, Mara Malagodi, & Ruth Rubio-Marin, eds. Gender, Sexuality and Constitutionalism in Asia	3
Proportionality: A constitutional principle for demarcating “monetary” and “economic” policy?	3
Las normas derogatorias constitucionales y su relación con la legislación preconstitucional	3
Monitoring and compliance mechanisms as a diagnostic and prognostic tool of international anti-corruption cooperation: A data-driven study	2
Invitamos a Francisca Pou Giménez, Investigadora del Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, a escribir una editorial.We invited Francisca Pou Giménez, Researcher at Instituto de Investigac	2
Populism and the politics of constitutional (mis-)identity	2
Editorial: In this issue; Guest Editorial: Islands and ocean: Public law and international legal ordering in Oceania; Ten good reads	2
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, Review of Eugenie Merieau. Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	2
Luisa Gabriela Morales-Vega, Review of Elisa Ortega-Velázquez, El asilo como derecho en disputa en México: La raza y la clase como dispositivo de exclusión	2
The constitutional quandary of social rights: Questions in times of the Polish illiberal turn	2
Chaihark Hahm. The Constitution of South Korea: A Contextual Analysis	2
Constraints on the domestic separation of powers by supranational courts	2
Is it time to abandon the theory of constituent power? A rejoinder	2
Institutions that define the policymaking role of courts: A comparative analysis of the supreme courts of Scandinavia	2
Costly ambiguities: Afterword to the Foreword by Nehal Bhuta	2
Margaret K. Lewis, Review of Weitseng Chen & Hualing Fu (eds)., Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation, Development and Transition	2
Of cheques and balances: Funding and separation of powers in international organizations law	2
Richard Johnson & Yuan Yi Zhu, eds., Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom	2
Avances y retos del plurilingüismo en los poderes públicos del estado españolProgress and challenges of multilingualism in the public powers of the Spanish state	2
Los terceros interesados ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos: una inclusión necesaria	2
The ubiquity of unwritten constitutionalism	2
Tadić en Chapinero: Usos del Derecho Internacional en la justicia transicional en Colombia para la creación de “nuevos” crímenes de guerra Tadić in Chapinero: Uses of International Law in Transitional	2
Is it time to abandon the theory of Democracy? The problem with the people: Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo	2
Matej Avbelj, Review of Cormac S. Mac Amhlaigh. New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory	2
Honoring our peer reviewers	2
Ching-Fu Lin, Review of Hans-W. Micklitz, Oreste Pollicino, Amnon Reichman, Andrea Simoncini, Giovanni Sartor, and Giovanni De Gregorio, eds. Constitutional Challenges in the Algorithmic Society	1
Constitution-making in polarized transitions: The role of civil society in the establishment of independent judiciary	1
Pluralizing federalisms	1
Samuel E. Bagg. The Dispersion of Power. A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy	1
Europe’s “independence wars”: A constitutional perspective—A reply to Antoine Vauchez	1
Republicanismo y ciudadanía armada en la Constitución Nacional argentina	1
Microcontextual considerations in ouster clause analysis: A comparative study of parallel trends in the United Kingdom and Singapore	1
The role of courts in abortion decriminalization: The unmet potential of proportionality	1

Itziar Gómez Fernández, Review of Rosa María Rodríguez Magda, El sexo en disputa. De la necesaria recuperación jurídica de un concepto.	1
Constitutional design preferences: An experimental approach	1
Matthew S.R. Palmer & Dean R. Knight. The Constitution of New Zealand: A Contextual Analysis	1
Between two worlds: Personal reflections from Slovenia and Spain on the Covid-19 pandemic	1
The “constitutional court of China”? Setting the record straight	1
Dismantling democratic change in Asia: Modalities and weapons of choice	1
Learning from the euro crisis: A new method of government for the European Union’s economic policy coordination after the pandemic	1
Constitutional identity, democracy, and illiberal change	1
A dialogical model of human rights adjudication	1
Wim Voermans. The Story of Constitutions: Discovering the We in Us .	1
Social rights and the origins of the social constitution: From collective natural rights to the social state	1
Secession from and secession within the European Union: Toward a holistic theory of secession	1
Constitutional democracy as fixed point? On interpretation and judicial representation-reinforcement	1
Regions and the European Union in times of crisis: A decline of the regional interest?	1
Tom Gerald Daly, Review of Mark Tushnet, The New Fourth Branch: Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy	1
The interaction of human rights and religion in Africa’s sexuality politics	1
Erin Daly, Review of Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu, ed. Human Dignity in Asia: Dialogue Between Law and Culture	1
Incapacitating, or something else? Unpacking Australian amendment culture in the First Nations Voice Referendum	1
The CJEU and EU (de-)constitutionalization: Unpacking jurisprudential responses	1
Democracy and constitutionalism in the Arab world	1
Constituting the negative globality of fear	1
Julie C. Suk. After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It	1
Assessing the filters to tame the populist beast	1
On constitutional identity, democratic legitimacy, and judicial review in times of democratic backsliding: The case of Israel	1
Introduction to the Symposium: Academic stories of Covid-19 and its unequal impacts	1
El proceso constituyente español de 1873: origen y fracaso de la República FederalThe Spanish constituent process of 1873: origin and failure of the Federal Republic	1
Too soon to know: Exploring the conditions of existence of the constituent power—Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo	1
Raeesa Vakil, Review of Philipp Dann and Arun K. Thiruvengadam (eds). Democratic Constitutionalism in India and the European Union: Comparing the Law of Democracy in Continental Polities	1
Women, gender, and constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction to the symposium	1
Two cultures of justification in constitutional law	1
Rachel Bayefsky. Dignity and Judicial Authority	1
Yasuo Hasebe, Review of Linda Colley, The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World	1
Constitutional methodology and the perils of positivity: A reply to Barak Medina	1
Constitutional identity and illiberalism: Introduction	1
Theorizing about the executive in the modern state	1
In this issue; Guest Editorial: Unsexing scholarship? Towards better citation and citizenship practices in global public law	1
Reflections on the thesis that (natural) social rights preceded the creation of the social (welfare) state: Afterword to the Foreword by Nehal Bhuta	1
Fuentes normativas y desarrollo jurisprudencial del derecho humano al agua en América LatinaNormative sources and jurisprudential development of the human right to water in Latin America	1
What is constitutional ideology?	1
Human rights and corruption: Problems and potential of individualizing a systemic problem	1
Han Zhu, Review of Neil J. Diamant. Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society	1
Rotating chief justices in a democracy under stress: The Brazilian Supremo Tribunal Federal under Bolsonaro	1
Informal constitutional change and the rise of fiscal discipline in Europe: Ripple effects on fundamental social rights	1
Gender and the legal academy	1
Moeen Cheema. Courting Constitutionalism: The Politics of Public Law and Judicial Review in Pakistan	1
State-centered liberal constitutionalism: An underappreciated legacy of “China’s Constitutional Court”	1