Annual Review of Law and Social Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Annual Review of Law and Social Science 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Layers of Political Repression: Integrating Research on Social Movement Repression67
Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law: Contours and Challenges of a Social Science That Does Not Quite Yet Exist53
Advancing Socioeconomic Rights Through Interdisciplinary Factfinding: Opportunities and Challenges41
Legal Responsibility Among the Young and the Elderly30
Legal Dualism as a Framework for Analyzing the Role of Law under Authoritarianism26
To Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Truth Seeking and Truth Telling in Law (and Other Arenas)24
Constitutional Dictatorships, from Colonialism to COVID-1921
Governance by Data21
Observations on 25 Years of Cannabis Law Reforms and Their Implications for the Psychedelic Renaissance in the United States20
Good Law to Fight Bad Bugs: Legal Responses to Epidemics15
Beyond Law as a Tool of Public Health: Vaccines in Interdisciplinary Sociolegal and Science Studies13
The Law and Economics of Blockchain12
Polarization, Populism, and the Crisis of American Democracy11
Moral Logics of Bureaucratic Indifference11
Women's Rights After War: On Gender Interventions and Enduring Hierarchies11
Medical Aid in Dying: New Frontiers in Medicine, Law, and Culture10
Black Lives Matter in Historical Perspective9
Legalization, Judicialization, Lawfare: On the Light Side and the Dark Side of the Turn to Law9
Law, Empires, Legal Professions, and Status Hierarchies: Comparative Perspectives8
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How Technology Is (or Is Not) Transforming Law Firms7
Law and Illiberalism: A Sociolegal Review and Research Road Map6
Global Scripts in Transnational Legal Orders and Governance6
Buddhism, Law, Buddhist Law6
Authoritarian Legality and State Capitalism in China6
Regulating Government AI and the Challenge of Sociotechnical Design5
What Is Wrong with Corporate Law? The Purpose of Law and the Law of Purpose5
Nationalist Revivals and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies5
Mandatory Employment Arbitration4
Abortion Law Illiberalism and Feminist Politics in Comparative Perspective4
Bankruptcy Law's Knowns and Unknowns4
Gender Inequalities in Markets4
Infrastructures and Laws: Publics and Publicness3
The Reasonable Person Standard: Psychological and Legal Perspectives3
Debt on the Ground: The Scholarly Discourse of Bankruptcy and Financial Precarity3
The Impact of Tort Reform in the United States3
The Military Turn in Comparative Constitutional Law: Constitutions and the Military in Authoritarian Regimes3
Empirical Disability Legal Studies3
Crypto Fever: Law, Regulation, and the Promise of Trustless Trust3
Suckers in Law3
The Psychology of Guilty Plea Decisions3
Civil Litigants’ Evaluations of Their Legal Experiences3
Refeudalization and Law: From the Rule of Law to Ties of Allegiance2
Centering Race in Studies of Low-Wage Immigrant Labor2
Philanthrocapitalism and the Separation of Powers2
The Politics of Expertise in Genomics Policy and Law2
New Technologies in Search and Seizure2
Technologies of Criminalization2
Regulating Content Moderation for Democracy: A Transatlantic Divide2
Revolutions and Law2
How Legal Punishment Affects Crime: An Integrated Understanding of the Law's Punitive Behavioral Mechanisms2
Statelessness: A Radical Rethinking of the Dominant Citizenism Paradigm1
Access to Justice and Legal Services Regulatory Reform1
Judgment by Peers: Lay Participation in Legal Decision Making1
Replicability in Empirical Legal Research1
Law and/or/as Civility1
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AI and Global Governance: Modalities, Rationales, Tensions1
Embattled Past, Uncertain Future: Law, Science, and Policymaking at the US Food and Drug Administration1
International Law, Security, and Sanctions: A Decolonial Perspective on the Transnational Legal Order of Sanctions1
Truth Commission Impact on Policy, Courts, and Society1
Parole Board Decision Making and Constitutional Rights1
Empiricism and Constitutional Torts1
Street-Level Meta-Strategies: Evidence on Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation1
The Work of Legitimacy1
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