OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Hague Journal on the Rule of 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Enforcement of a Formal Conception of the Rule of Law as a Potential Way Forward to Address Backsliding: Hungary as a Case Study	33
The Rule of Law as a Constitutional Mandate for the EU	31
Was There a Rule of Law in Early Modern Amsterdam? Mercantile Customary Law as a Test	15
Political and Legal Authority in Flux	13
From Liberal Democracy to Illiberal Populist Autocracy: Possible Reasons for Hungary’s Autocratization	12
How Political Narratives Affect the Self-Enforcing Nature of Interim Constitutions	10
Market-Engaging Institutions: The Rule of Law, Resilience and Responsiveness in an Era of Institutional Flux	10
Reconstructing Legitimacy After Crisis: The Chilean Path to a New Constitution	8
The Court of Justice of the European Union in the Case Law of the Polish Constitutional Court: The Current Breakdown in View of Polish Constitutional Jurisprudence Pre-2016	5
The Rule of Law Conditionality Under Regulation No 2092/2020—Is it all About the Money?	5
Chile’s New Constitution: What Right to Health?	5
Correction: International and European Law and the Catalan Secession Process: Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democracy at Stake?	5
Spain as a Democratic State Governed by the Rule of Law and the Catalan Secessionist Process	5
Reclaiming Political Rights During a Rule of Law Crisis: The Role of the UN Human Rights Committee	5
Deepening Democracy? Promises and challenges of Chile’s Road to a New Constitution	4
Rule of Law and Political Representation	4
It Never Rains but it Pours. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal Declares the European Convention on Human Rights Unconstitutional	4
The Challenge of Catalan Secessionism to the European Model of the Rule of Law	4
To Live and to Learn: The EU Commission’s Failure to Recognise Rule of Law Deficiencies in Lithuania	3
Maritime Rule of Law: Some Preliminaries	3
Rebuilding the Rule of Law in the Era of Democratic Backsliding	3
The Council of Europe and the Catalan Secessionist Process: The Authoritarian Drift of the Radical Democratic Principle	3
Preserving the Rule of Law Through Transnational Soft Law: The Cooperation and Verification Mechanism	2
Reconciling Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union	2
Rule of Law Through the ‘Urban Turn’ in South African Constitutionalism	2

Between a Rock-Hard Reality and a Pious Wish Place: Postema on the Rule of Law Beyond Borders	2
International and European Law and the Catalan Secession Process: Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democracy at Stake?	2
A Primacy of Privileges? Urban Constitutionalism, the Rule of Law and Late Medieval Bruges	2
Well-Tempered Power: ‘A Cultural Achievement of Universal Significance’	2
Reinforcing Institutional Power: The Discourse of Normalcy in European Union Governance	2
Purging the Judiciary After a Transition: Between a Rock and a Hard Place	2
Urban Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges	2
International and European Institutions and Catalan Nationalism	2
Form and Flexibility: The Normalisation of ‘Magnitsky Sanctions’ in the Face of the Rule of Law	1
COVID-19, The Rule of Law and Democracy. Analysis of Legal Responses to a Global Health Crisis	1
The Rule of Law and Corporate Actors: Measuring Influence	1
Private Power, the Rule of Law and the European Union	1
How to Assess Rule-of-Law Violations in a State of Emergency? Towards a General Analytical Framework	1
Populist Jurisprudence? Examining Selected Case Law of the Polish Constitutional Court After 2016	1
Confused Constitutionalism in Hungary—New Assessment Criteria for Recognising a Populist Constitutional Court	1
Reconciling the Theory and the Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union Measuring the Rule of Law	1
The Systemic Implications of the Supranational Legal Order for the Practice of the Rule of Law	1
Pre-enlargement Reform Failures in the Western Balkans: Social and Economic Preconditions of the Rule of Law	1