OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Ethics of Tragedy: Dwelling, Thinking, Measuring	4
A Court in the Backlands: A Nomadic Justice in Brazilian Literature	3
Fiat Lux/Fiat Lex : A Canticle for Leibowitz, Reason and Law	3
Squaring Law and Literature: Materiality – Comparativity – Constitutivity	2
Athenian Law and Classical Greek Tragedy: The Case of Oedipus the King	2
Censoring Kuli Pratha in British India	1
From Novels to Figures, Themes and Strategies of a Political Practice PART II: Sexual Difference: An Occasion for Being	1
The Law of Frank Herbert’s Dune: Legal Culture between Cynicism, Earnestness and Futility	1
Holmes Reads Holmes: Reflections on the Real-Life Links Between the Jurist & the Detective in the Library, in the Courtroom, and on the Battlefield	1
Torture and Autobiography: A Scarrian Reading of Self, Rights, and Revolution in Lualhati Milan Abreu’s Dawn	1
The Extravagant Community of Love	1
Legal Cultures in the Age of Goethe: An Introduction	1
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	1
The Reception of Vaihinger in Civil Law Scholarship	1
“Twoo Muche Vayne and Idle Chardge”: The Precision of Inheritance in the 1601 Will of Bess of Hardwick	1
The Pretense Mode of Fiction. On the Practice of Fiction in Literary Studies	1
The Art of Complicity	1
Destructive Legacies: Thomas Bernhard’s Literary Critique of Inheritance	1
Big Lies, Drag Shows, and Legal Fictions	1
Bentham, Iser, and the Necessity of Fiction	1
Navigating the Pitfalls of Counterfactuality: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legal Fictions	1
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
“Oracles of the Law:” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s Legal Futurism	0
The Emperor Augustus and Narratives of Legal Origin	0

Orwell and Empire	0
Judgment *Judgment* , by Thomas Giddens, Abingdon: Routledge, 2022, 105 pp	0
“No Woman, Much Less a Woman of Fortune, is Ever Fit to Be Her Own Mistress”: Gender, Wealth, and Agency in Inheritance Novels from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	0
Transnational Gendered (Im)mobility in Border Cinema: Iraqi Refugee Women in Australia	0
Public Order, Human Dignity, and the Child’s Best Interests: The Legal Dilemma of Surrogacy in Mo Yan’s Frog	0
Ian Ward, the Play of Law in Modern British Theatre	0
The Confluence of Rhetoric and Emotion: How the History of Rhetoric Illuminates the Theoretical Importance of Emotion	0
“For an Anne Bert Law”: Narratives, Advocacy, and the Legalization of Assisted Dying in France	0
Free Indirect Discourse in Court: An Overview of Contemporary Jurisprudence in French Press Law	0
Prodigal Heirs and Their Social Networks in Early Modern English Drama, 1590–1640	0
The Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination	0
“Land[s] beyond the White World”: (Re)imagining the International through Fiction	0
Getting Legal Reason to Speak for Itself: The Legal Form of the Gutachten and Its Affordances	0
The Possibility of Norms: Social Practice Beyond Morals and Causes	0
Art Narrative as Normative Order	0
Renisa Mawani, Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018) pp 352. Paperback: $28.95	0
Guilty, until Proven Innocent: The Fossilization of Discriminatory Practices in Visa Law and Policy as portrayed in Anna Segher’s Transit and Juan de Recacoechea’s American Visa	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
Corto Maltese and the Myriad Narratives of a More-than-Human Ocean: Revisiting Some of UNCLOS’ Ontological Assumptions	0
The Rights of Nature: Their Conceptual Architecture	0
Introduction: Writing Inheritance in European Literature	0
Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization *Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization* , by Ste	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
From Clapham to Salina: Locating the Reasonable Man	0
“The Monarck of Loves Crowne:” Love and Law in Lady Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus	0
Annie Ernaux, Dobbs , and the Right to Tell Abortion Stories	0
The Importance of Not Being Honest	0
Pleasures of Liminality	0
Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere	0
Avant-Garde Literature and the Ground of Rights	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
Correction	0
Grains of Allowance: Liberty, Toleration, and Justice in George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer	0
The Union of India: Bodily Unity in Indian Law and Literature	0
Risky Business: Con Artists, Speculation, and Inheritance in Early Modern English Drama	0
On Paradox: The Claims of Theory	0
On What Mutters: The Unnamable Subject of Practical Reason Finnis..Raz…Beckett..Cha	0
Tapestry of Tales: Women’s Collative Writings as Legal Storytelling	0
Victor Fan, Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), 360pp	0
Victorian Inheritance, Speculation, and Middlemarch’s “Dead Hand”	0
Speculative Constitutions in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle and the Rights of Nature	0
Traveling Outside of Time: Speculative Futurism and Environmental Justice	0
The Mothers of Us All: Extracts, with comments, from the ‘Yellow Catalogue’ published by the Milan Women’s Bookstore	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
What Are You, Critical Legal Education? An Absurd Symphony	0
A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination	0
Speaking Out: Graphic Narrative as Alternative Jurisdiction	0
The Tigers of Curzon Street	0
Vortext	0
Literature as Legal History: Understanding the Colonial Roots of the Nigerian Police Force	0

The Arena of Suspension: Carrie Mae Weems, Bryan Stevenson, and the “Ground” in the Stand Your Ground Law Era	0
Why Art and Law?	0
Property, Propriety, and Publicity: A Different Look at Pope v. Curll (1741)	0
Maksymilian Del Mar, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication	0
Emblems Performing Law	0
Aspect Perception in Philosophy, Fiction, and Law	0
Nothing But the Fictions	0
The Utopian Law and Literature of Systematic Colonisation	0
Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination	0
Disrupting Undocumentation: Municipal ID Cards against Passport Fetishism	0
Libertines and the Law: Subversive Authors and Criminal Justice in Early Seventeenth-Century France	0
Derring Literarity: The Case of Negative Comparative Law	0
The Myth of the Law through the Mirror of Humanities: Perspectives on Law, Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Aesthetics	0
Complicity and the Colonial Force of Law in the Courtroom of Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies	0
Editors’ Introduction: Fictions in Law, Literature, and Philosophy	0
On the True Men and Women, and Rebel Beetles: Utopia as Revolutionary Method and Practice in the Zapatista Tales of Subcomandante Marcos	0
Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police	0
Examining Mass Incarceration: Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room	0
Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene	0
Mikhaïl Bakhtin and International Refugee Law: A Dialogic Approach to Treaty Negotiations and Cross-Cultural Legal Hearings	0
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	0
Eros against Law: Levinas and Erotic Interiority in Don Juan of Kolomea	0
The Right to Not Cut Our Owne Throats with Our Tongues: Proverbial Roots of the Fifth Amendment	0
Disputing the Emotional Estate. Moral and Financial Inheritance in Vigdis Hjorth’s Will and Testament (2016) and Helga Hjorth’s Free Will (2017)	0
What’s in a Name? Legal Fictions and Philosophical Fictionalism	0
Modernism and the Law	0
Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus	0
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty: Literary Policy in Xi Jinping’s China	0
The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law. Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production	0
Shakespeare’s Strangers and English Law	0
Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics	0
Into One’s Own Hands: The Shape of Justice in China’s Rust Belt	0
Portrait and Mugshot: Metonymical Foundation of Photographic Genres	0
Performing Hepatitis C, Problematising “Cure”: The Construction of Hepatitis C (Cure) in Social Security and Migration Law	0
Reclaiming the Border Narrative: Refugee Children as Victim, Witness, and Agent in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive	0
Adoption Archives: Documents, Subjecthood, and the Possibility of Justice	0
Accepting or Transgressing the Failure: Derrida and Agamben on Kafka’s Before the Law	0
Qualities of Mercy: Capital Punishment and the Royal Prerogative in Familial Cases in the Chosŏn Records of Adjudications ( Simnirok )	0
Listening for Silence	0
Planetary Gifts of Law and Literature	0
Stephanie Elsky, Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature	0
Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages	0
Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the Death Penalty	0
Dead Hands, or, How the French Stopped the Dead Seizing the Living	0
Imperfect Facsimiles: The Library and the Museum¹	0
Peter Goodrich, Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA, USA), 2021.pp. 119	0
Beyond the Corpse-Barbarian: The Radical (Mexican) Grammar of Death in the Works of Teresa Margolles and Sergio González Rodríguez	0
Challenging Nordic Exceptionalism: Norway in Literature by and about Irregular Migrants	0
Cut Piece: The Art of Yoko Ono and the Law of Rape in the United States	0
The Pale Criminal, the Guilty Conscience, and the Constitution of Crime: Nietzsche Reading “Raskolnikov”	0
Theaters of Pardoning	0
Law’s Will to Truth in The Sound of Things Falling	0
The Drover’s Wife, the Legend of Molly Johnson : Leah Purcell’s Reclaiming of a Colonial Fetish	0