OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Constitutional Law Review 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Protecting the Good Name of the Nation as Memory Law	154667314
Protecting the Rule of Law in the EU Legal Order: A Constitutional Role for the Court of Justice	12
The Judgment That Wasn’t (But Which Nearly Brought Poland to a Standstill)	10
Proportionality Means Proportionality	8
The Slovak Constitutional Court on Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment (PL. ÚS 21/2014)	6
External Border Control Techniques in the EU as a Challenge to the Principle of Non-Refoulement	6
How to Save a Supreme Court in a Rule of Law Crisis: the Polish Experience: ECJ (Grand Chamber) 24 June 2019, Case C-619/18, European Commission v Republic of Poland	5
The First Episode in the Romanian Rule of Law Saga: Joined Cases C-83/19, C-127/19, C-195/19, C-291/19, C-355/19 and C-397/19, Asociaţia ‘Forumul Judecătorilor din România, and their follow-up	5
From Militant Democracy to Normal Politics? How European Democracies Respond to Populist Parties	5
National Parliaments’ Scrutiny of the Principle of Subsidiarity: Reasoned Opinions 2014–2019	4
Decriminalising Assisted Suicide Services: Bundesverfassungsgericht 26 February 2020, 2BvR 2347/15	4
Agreeing to Disagree: The European Union and the United Kingdom after Brexit	4
The Ultra Vires Ruling: Deconstructing the German Federal Constitutional Court’s PSPP decision of 5 May 2020	4
Mixed Judicial Selection and Constitutional Review: Evidence from Spain	4
Infringement Actions 2.0: How to Protect EU Values before the Court of Justice	3
An Uncertain First Step in the Field of Judicial Self-government: ECJ 19 November 2019, Joined Cases C-585/18, C-624/18 and C-625/18,A.K.,CPandDO	3
Judges and Representatives of the People: a Polish Perspective	3
Referendums in the UK Constitution: Authority, Sovereignty and Democracy after Brexit	3
Citizens’ Actions against Non-liberal-democratic Parties	3
Nature versus Nurture: ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ before the Romanian Constitutional Court	3
BPost and Nordzucker: Searching for the Essence of Ne Bis in Idem in European Union Law	3
Trust in the Law? Mutual Recognition as a Justification to Domestic Criminal Procedure	3
Greece: A Procedural Defence of Democracy against the Golden Dawn	3
A Homeless Bill of Rights as a New Instrument to Protect the Rights of Homeless Persons	3
The National and EU Targets for Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Infringe the ECHR: The Judicial Review of General Policy Objectives	2

The European Court of Justice Allows Third Countries to Challenge EU Restrictive Measures	2
The Hypocrisy of Authoritarian Populism in Poland: Between the Facade Rhetoric of Political Constitutionalism and the Actual Abuse of Apex Courts	2
The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Central European University Case: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied	2
Friendly Takeover, or: the Power of the ‘First Word’. The German Constitutional Court Embraces the Charter of Fundamental Rights as a Standard of Domestic Judicial Review	2
The Ruling of the Bundesverfassungsgericht in PSPP – An Inquiry into its Repercussions on the Economic and Monetary Union	2
Human Dignity in Legal Argumentation: A Functional Perspective	2
Asylum in the EU: One of the Many Faces of Rule of Law Backsliding?	2
Constitutional Adjudication and Constitutional Politics in the United Kingdom: The Miller II Case in Legal and Political Context	2
Deliberation in Constitutional Amendment: Reappraising Ireland’s Deliberative Mini-Publics	2
Whose Freedom is it Anyway? The Fundamental Rights of Companies in EU Law	2
Sometimes Even Easy Rule of Law Cases Make Bad Law	2
The Polish Constitutional Tribunal Crisis from the Perspective of the European Convention on Human Rights	2
Deconstructing Hirsi: The Return of Hot Returns	2
Locking in Constitutionality Control in Finland	2
Social Europe without Social Dialogue: Decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in C-928/19 P European Federation of Public Service Unions	2
The Italian Constitutional Court in its Context: A Narrative	2
FBF: On the Justiciability of Soft Law and Broadening the Discretion of EU Agencies	2
The Unorthodox Relationship between the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Secondary Rights in the Court of Justice Case Law on Disabili	1
Who Safeguards the Guardians? A Subjective Right of Judges to their Independence under Article 6(1) ECHR	1
A National Measure Annulled by the European Court of Justice, or: High-level Judicial Protection for Independent Central Bankers: ECJ 26 February 2019, Cases C-202/18, Ilmārs Rimšēvičs v Rep	1
Directive Principles, Political Constitutionalism, and Constitutional Culture: the Case of Ireland’s failed Directive Principles of Social Policy	1
Protection of the Rule of Law and ‘Competence Creep’ via the Budget: The Court of Justice on the Legality of the Conditionality Regulation	1
Migrating with Dignity: Conceptualising Human Dignity Through EU Migration Law	1
Is It Polexit Yet? Comment on Case K 3/21 of 7 October 2021 by the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland	1
The Foundations of EU Administrative Law as a Scholarly Field: Functional Comparison, Normativism and Integration	1
The Grand Gala of PNR Litigations: Case C-817/19, Ligue des droits humains v Conseil des ministers	1
Better In Than Out: When Constitutional Courts Rely on the Charter	1
Extraterritorial Bulk Surveillance after the German BND Act Judgment	1
Political Constitutionalism under a Culture of Legalism: Case Studies from Ireland	1
Saving Judicial Independence: A Threat to the Preliminary Ruling Mechanism?	1
Thinking EU Militant Democracy beyond the Challenge of Backsliding Member States	1
The Political Impact of the Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union	1
The Role of Judicial Craft in Improving Democracy’s Resilience: The Case of Party Bans in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	1
National Security and Retention of Telecommunications Data in Light of Recent Case Law of the European Courts	1
Freedom and Power of European Constitutional Scholarship	1
Preserving the ‘Essence’ of Fundamental Rights under Article 52(1) of the Charter: A Sisyphean Task?	1
Balancing Competences? Proportionality as an Instrument to Regulate the Exercise of Competences after the PSPP Judgment of the Bundesverfassungsgericht	1
Fault Lines of the European Parliamentary Mandate: The Immunity of Oriol Junqueras Vies: ECJ 19 December 2019, Case C-502/19, Junqueras, ECLI:EU:C:2019:1115	1
The Law and Norms of the European Central Bank as Sovereign Lender of Last Resort: Crystallising Endogenous Authority	1