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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Elements for FIFA’s feminist transformation: The case for indicators on football and women’s rights	23
The constitutional impact of rule-of-law spending conditionality	20
Constitutional review of negotiated international investment agreements: Strengths and shortcomings of the Colombian Constitutional Court’s approach	16
Las agencias reguladoras independientes y sus desafíos de legitimidad democrática: revisión de literatura y agenda para el derecho constitucional en Latinoamérica	11
Repensando los préstamos constitucionales: un análisis crítico del uso de materiales foráneos desde la experiencia argentina	10
Gender, democracy, and the legal academy: Afterword to the Foreword by Gráinne de Búrca, Rosalind Dixon, and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy	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	9
The non-constitutionalization and avoidant constitutionalization of gender in Czechia and Slovakia	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
Indirect elections as a constitutional device of epistocracy	7
What would a pluralist institutional approach to constitutional interpretation look like? Some methodological implications	6
Nationalism versus “identity pluralism”? Preserving and valorizing archeological heritage	6
¿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	6
Jonathan Hafetz, Review of Lawrence Repeta. Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War	6
Law, film, and trans identity in Hong Kong	5
Empirical research in comparative constitutional law: The cool kid on the block or all smoke and mirrors?	5
The switch: The Israel High Court of Justice’s transition from occupation law to human rights law	5
Constitutional amendment and public will formation: Deliberative mini-publics as a tool for consensus democracy	5
A constitutional court’s survival (by any name)	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
Control and paralysis? A context-sensitive analysis of objections to supermajorities in constitutional adjudication	4
Constitucionalismo transformador y derecho internacional de inversionesTransformative constitutionalism and international investment law	4
Constraining constituent conventions: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and the limits of pouvoir constituant	4
Chief justices and democratic resilience: Judicial leadership in times of constitutional crisis	4

The myth of populist constitutionalism in Hungary and Poland: Populist or authoritarian constitutionalism?	4
Angelo Jr Golia, Review of Mariano Croce and Marco Goldoni, The Legacy of Pluralism: The Continental Jurisprudence of Santi Romano, Carl Schmitt, and Costantino Mortati	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
Measurement and causal identification in constitutional law: A reply to Niels Petersen and Konstantin Chatziathanasiou	4
Mariana Canales Subercaseaux, Review of Aileen Kavanagh. The Collaborative Constitution.	4
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	4
Sanford Levinson, Review of Yasuo Hasebe, Towards a Normal Constitutional State: The Trajectory of Japanese Constitutionalism	3
Conventions and practical interpretation in Westminster-type constitutional systems	3
Brian Christopher Jones, Review of Jack Beatson, Key Ideas in Law: The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers	3
Revolutionary amnesia and the nature of prerogative power	3
Responsive judicial review and democracy: Examining Rosalind Dixon’s theory of judicial review	3
The concept of coup d’état under stifling stress: Legal theory’s political-science–based response	3
Taking global administrative law one step ahead: Online giants and the digital democratic sphere	3
The fatigue of multilateralism: A new hope for international law—Afterword to the Foreword by Karen Alter	3
Constitucionalismo fuerte y democracia deliberativa: Inconsistencias en Rawls, Dworkin, y AlexyStrong constitutionalism and deliberative democracy: Inconsistencies in Rawls, Dworkin, and Alexy	3
Constitutional parasitism, camouflage, and pretense: Shaping citizenship through subterfuge	3
Oratorical leadership of chief justices in post-handover Hong Kong	3
Correction to: Tres desafíos de legitimidad del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos	3
No higher law: The Uruguayan plebiscite of 1980 as a failed constituent moment	3
Appropriation and the rewriting of rights	3
Social and political dynamics in the feminization of judiciary	3
Constitutional identity, expressivism, and constitutional change through judicial interpretation: The Indonesian LGBT case as a case study	3
Theorizing about the executive in the modern state	2
Reinforcing the binary and disciplining the subject: The constitutional right to gender recognition in the Italian case law	2
Crown-Presidentialism	2
Guest editorial: Liberal constitutionalism and postcolonialism in the South and beyond: On liberalism as an open source and the insights of decolonial critiques	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
The ubiquity of unwritten constitutionalism	2
Institutions that define the policymaking role of courts: A comparative analysis of the supreme courts of Scandinavia	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
Constitutional scholars and scholactivism	2
Robert Poll, Review of Zaid Al-Ali, Arab Constitutionalism: The Coming Revolution	2
Richard Johnson & Yuan Yi Zhu, eds., Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom	2
Para-constitutional engineering and federalism: Informal constitutional change through intergovernmental agreements	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
Maris Köpcke, Review of Leah Trueblood. Referendums as Representative Democracy	2
Vicente Aylwin Fernández, Review of Joshua Braver. We, the Mediated People: Popular Constitution-Making in Contemporary South America	2
Margaret K. Lewis, Review of Weitseng Chen & Hualing Fu (eds)., Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation, Development and Transition	2
The constitutional quandary of social rights: Questions in times of the Polish illiberal turn	2
Maria Moscati, Review of Alice Margaria, The Construction of Fatherhood. The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights	2
Of cheques and balances: Funding and separation of powers in international organizations law	2
Honoring our peer reviewers	2
Is it time to abandon the theory of constituent power? A rejoinder	2
Monitoring and compliance mechanisms as a diagnostic and prognostic tool of international anti-corruption cooperation: A data-driven study	2
The normative development of laws on asset preservation and confiscation: An examination of emerging best practices	2
Constraints on the domestic separation of powers by supranational courts	2
Los terceros interesados ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos: una inclusión necesaria	2
Secession from and secession within the European Union: Toward a holistic theory of secession	1
Democracy and constitutionalism in the Arab world	1

Maciej Krogel, Review of Camila Vergara, Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic	1
Between two worlds: Personal reflections from Slovenia and Spain on the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Capitalism, international law, race, and China’s rise: Afterword to the Foreword by Karen Alter	1
Matej Avbelj, Review of Cormac S. Mac Amhlaigh. New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory	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
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	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
Moeen Cheema. Courting Constitutionalism: The Politics of Public Law and Judicial Review in Pakistan	1
Davide Paris, Review of Giacomo Delledonne, Costituzione e legge elettorale: Un percorso comparatistico nello Stato costituzionale europeo [Constitution and Electoral Law: A Comparative Journey in the	1
Learning from the euro crisis: A new method of government for the European Union’s economic policy coordination after the pandemic	1
El desafío iliberal a la independencia judicial: la contribución de los tribunales internacionalesThe illiberal challenge to judicial independence: the contribution of international tribunals	1
Europe’s “independence wars”: A constitutional perspective—A reply to Antoine Vauchez	1
Rights-based constitutionalism and gender justice in Colombian women’s soccer	1
Too soon to know: Exploring the conditions of existence of the constituent power—Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo	1
Tom Gerald Daly, Review of Mark Tushnet, The New Fourth Branch: Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy	1
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
In this issue; Guest Editorial: Unsexing scholarship? Towards better citation and citizenship practices in global public law	1
What is constitutional ideology?	1
Microcontextual considerations in ouster clause analysis: A comparative study of parallel trends in the United Kingdom and Singapore	1
Han Zhu, Review of Neil J. Diamant. Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society	1
The CJEU and EU (de-)constitutionalization: Unpacking jurisprudential responses	1
Is it time to abandon the theory of Democracy? The problem with the people: Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo	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
A dialogical model of human rights adjudication	1
Matthew S.R. Palmer & Dean R. Knight. The Constitution of New Zealand: A Contextual Analysis	1
Constitutional democracy as fixed point? On interpretation and judicial representation-reinforcement	1
Women, gender, and constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction to the symposium	1
Regions and the European Union in times of crisis: A decline of the regional interest?	1
Social rights and the origins of the social constitution: From collective natural rights to the social state	1
Yasuo Hasebe, Review of Linda Colley, The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World	1
Erin Daly, Review of Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu, ed. Human Dignity in Asia: Dialogue Between Law and Culture	1
In the Möbius strip of global economic law: Afterword to the Foreword by Karen Alter	1
The “constitutional court of China”? Setting the record straight	1
The interaction of human rights and religion in Africa’s sexuality politics	1
Itziar Gómez Fernández, Review of Rosa María Rodríguez Magda, El sexo en disputa. De la necesaria recuperación jurídica de un concepto.	1
Julie C. Suk. After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It	1
Human rights and corruption: Problems and potential of individualizing a systemic problem	1
Republicanismo y ciudadanía armada en la Constitución Nacional argentina	1
Introduction to the Symposium: Academic stories of Covid-19 and its unequal impacts	1
Joelle Grogan, Review of Miguel Poiares Maduro and Paul W. Kahn, eds., Democracy in Times of Pandemic: Different Futures Imagined	1
Gender and the legal academy	1
Constitutional design preferences: An experimental approach	1
Assessing the filters to tame the populist beast	1
Rotating chief justices in a democracy under stress: The Brazilian Supremo Tribunal Federal under Bolsonaro	1
De-recognition of seceding territories: What precedes it in constitutional discourse and what follows in international politics	1
Dismantling democratic change in Asia: Modalities and weapons of choice	1
Taking feminism beyond the state: FIFA as a transnational battleground for feminist legal critique	1
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
Constituting the negative globality of fear	1
State-centered liberal constitutionalism: An underappreciated legacy of “China’s Constitutional Court”	1