OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Law & Literature is 0. 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
Censoring Kuli Pratha in British India	5
Legal Cultures in the Age of Goethe: An Introduction	4
The Drover’s Wife, the Legend of Molly Johnson : Leah Purcell’s Reclaiming of a Colonial Fetish	2
Ian Ward, the Play of Law in Modern British Theatre	2
Avant-Garde Literature and the Ground of Rights	2
Victor Fan, Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), 360pp	2
Bentham, Iser, and the Necessity of Fiction	2
The Tigers of Curzon Street	1
Stephanie Elsky, Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature	1
Vortext	1
A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema: Superheroes, Science Fictions and Fantasies of Modern Law	1
Into One’s Own Hands: The Shape of Justice in China’s Rust Belt	1
Getting Legal Reason to Speak for Itself: The Legal Form of the Gutachten and Its Affordances	1
Neocolonial Treks: Sexual Tourism and Dancefloor as Transactional Space	1
The Mothers of Us All : Extracts, with Comments, from the “Yellow Catalogue” Published by the Milan Women’s Bookstore – Paper No. 2: From Novels to the Figures, Themes a	1
Emblems Performing Law	1
Libertines and the Law: Subversive Authors and Criminal Justice in Early Seventeenth-Century France	1
Big Lies, Drag Shows, and Legal Fictions	0
The Mothers of Us All: Extracts, with comments, from the ‘Yellow Catalogue’ published by the Milan Women’s Bookstore	0
Qualities of Mercy: Capital Punishment and the Royal Prerogative in Familial Cases in the Chosŏn Records of Adjudications ( Simnirok )	0
The Confluence of Rhetoric and Emotion: How the History of Rhetoric Illuminates the Theoretical Importance of Emotion	0
Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics	0
Examining Mass Incarceration: Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room	0
Literature as Legal History: Understanding the Colonial Roots of the Nigerian Police Force	0
Speculative Constitutions in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle and the Rights of Nature	0

Introduction: Law, Literature, and the World	0
What’s in a Name? Legal Fictions and Philosophical Fictionalism	0
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty: Literary Policy in Xi Jinping’s China	0
Mikhaïl Bakhtin and International Refugee Law: A Dialogic Approach to Treaty Negotiations and Cross-Cultural Legal Hearings	0
Disrupting Undocumentation: Municipal ID Cards against Passport Fetishism	0
Annie Ernaux, Dobbs , and the Right to Tell Abortion Stories	0
Jesús R. Velasco,Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 256 pp, ISBN 9780812251869, Americas: $69.95, outside the Am	0
Editors’ Introduction: Fictions in Law, Literature, and Philosophy	0
Portrait and Mugshot: Metonymical Foundation of Photographic Genres	0
Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination	0
Cecily Shoots a Rhinoceros: Big Game Hunting in British Somaliland and the 1900 Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish in Africa	0
The Art of Complicity	0
On What Mutters: The Unnamable Subject of Practical Reason Finnis..Raz…Beckett..Cha	0
Squaring Law and Literature: Materiality – Comparativity – Constitutivity	0
Stopping the Boats, Changing the Narrative: How the Migrant Refugee Bildungsroman Became a Ghost Story	0
How Liberty Dies in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Star Wars, Democratic Decay, and Weak Executives	0
Corto Maltese and the Myriad Narratives of a More-than-Human Ocean: Revisiting Some of UNCLOS’ Ontological Assumptions	0
Art Narrative as Normative Order	0
The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes	0
Tragic Staging as Critique in the War Crimes Tribunal: The Suicide of Slobodan Praljak	0
The Right to Not Cut Our Owne Throats with Our Tongues: Proverbial Roots of the Fifth Amendment	0
Legal and Epic Alienation. Fritz Bauer’s Critique of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-1965) and Peter Weiss’s Dramatic Treatment of the Trial in the Investigation. Oratorio in 11 Can	0
Orwell and Empire	0
Correction	0
Complicity and the Colonial Force of Law in the Courtroom of Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies	0
The Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination	0
The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law. Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production	0
Prisoner of the Book. The Living Constitution and Jorge Luis Borges’ Book of Sand	0
Judgment *Judgment* , by Thomas Giddens, Abingdon: Routledge, 2022, 105 pp	0
Reclaiming the Border Narrative: Refugee Children as Victim, Witness, and Agent in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive	0
Speaking Out: Graphic Narrative as Alternative Jurisdiction	0
What Are You, Critical Legal Education? An Absurd Symphony	0
Law’s Will to Truth in The Sound of Things Falling	0
Maksymilian Del Mar, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication	0
On Paradox: The Claims of Theory	0
Theaters of Pardoning	0
Property, Propriety, and Publicity: A Different Look at Pope v. Curll (1741)	0
Nothing But the Fictions	0
The Emperor Augustus and Narratives of Legal Origin	0
From Plucking to Purgation: Negative Transcendence in Shakespeare’s Political Drama	0
“Land[s] beyond the White World”: (Re)imagining the International through Fiction	0
Traveling Outside of Time: Speculative Futurism and Environmental Justice	0
The Reception of Vaihinger in Civil Law Scholarship	0
Planetary Gifts of Law and Literature	0
Shakespeare’s Strangers and English Law	0
Athenian Law and Classical Greek Tragedy: The Case of Oedipus the King	0
The Importance of Not Being Honest	0
“For an Anne Bert Law”: Narratives, Advocacy, and the Legalization of Assisted Dying in France	0
The sentimental life of international law: literature, language, and longing in world politics *The sentimental life of international law: literature, language, and lon*	0
Adoption Archives: Documents, Subjecthood, and the Possibility of Justice	0

From Clapham to Salina: Locating the Reasonable Man	0
The Utopian Law and Literature of Systematic Colonisation	0
Pleasures of Liminality	0
The Extravagant Community of Love	0
Feudal Scots Law and the Theory of the Historical Novel Genre	0
Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police	0
“Speaking for the Dead to Protect the Living”: On Audre Lorde’s Biomythography, Law, Love, and Epistemic Violence in the Coronial Jurisdiction in the Kimberley	0
From Novels to Figures, Themes and Strategies of a Political Practice PART II: Sexual Difference: An Occasion for Being	0
Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene	0
A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination	0
Navigating the Pitfalls of Counterfactuality: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legal Fictions	0
Performing Hepatitis C, Problematising “Cure”: The Construction of Hepatitis C (Cure) in Social Security and Migration Law	0
Tapestry of Tales: Women’s Collative Writings as Legal Storytelling	0
“Oracles of the Law:” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s Legal Futurism	0
Public Order, Human Dignity, and the Child’s Best Interests: The Legal Dilemma of Surrogacy in Mo Yan’s Frog	0
Aspect Perception in Philosophy, Fiction, and Law	0
Free Indirect Discourse in Court: An Overview of Contemporary Jurisprudence in French Press Law	0
Eros against Law: Levinas and Erotic Interiority in Don Juan of Kolomea	0
Grains of Allowance: Liberty, Toleration, and Justice in George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer	0
Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the Death Penalty	0
Peter Goodrich, Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA, USA), 2021.pp. 119	0
The Rights of Nature: Their Conceptual Architecture	0
On the True Men and Women, and Rebel Beetles: Utopia as Revolutionary Method and Practice in the Zapatista Tales of Subcomandante Marcos	0
Introduction: Writing Inheritance in European Literature	0
Accepting or Transgressing the Failure: Derrida and Agamben on Kafka’s Before the Law	0
The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice	0
Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization *Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization* , by Ste	0
The Law of Frank Herbert’s Dune: Legal Culture between Cynicism, Earnestness and Futility	0
A Court in the Backlands: A Nomadic Justice in Brazilian Literature	0
The Union of India: Bodily Unity in Indian Law and Literature	0
Justice for Hamlet	0
Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus	0
The Pretense Mode of Fiction. On the Practice of Fiction in Literary Studies	0
Snark Staring Mad	0
Derring Literarity: The Case of Negative Comparative Law	0
Topology and Resistance Before the Law	0
Fiat Lux/Fiat Lex : A Canticle for Leibowitz, Reason and Law	0