OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Hague Journal on the Rule of Law is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Dual Dynamics of Chinese Constitutional Review: Coexistence and Tension Between Rule of Law and Party’s Leadership	46
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	13
Heterodox Protest, the Conservative Right, and the Law	12
Purging the Judiciary After a Transition: Between a Rock and a Hard Place	11
Reconciling Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union	10
Well-Tempered Power: ‘A Cultural Achievement of Universal Significance’	9
The Rule of Law Under Pressure: A Transnational Perspective	6
Pre-enlargement Reform Failures in the Western Balkans: Social and Economic Preconditions of the Rule of Law	6
The Rule of Law as a Well-Established and Well-Defined Principle of EU Law	5
Private Power, the Rule of Law and the European Union	5
China’s Foreign-Related ‘Rule of Law’: The Evolution of an Idea	5
Rule of Law Through the ‘Urban Turn’ in South African Constitutionalism	4
Special Issue of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law on Populism, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe	4
Correction: Triangulation of Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualizations Related to the Rule of Law	4
Aristocrats in Arbitration: Did Class Affect Inter-state Arbitration Before or After the 1899 Hague Peace Conference?	4
The Abduction and Criminal Prosecution of Maduro: A Few Observations from an International and Criminal Law Perspective	4
Maritime Rule of Law: Some Preliminaries	4
Rule of Law and the Criteria for Appointment of Judges: A Case for Judicial Virtues	4
The Authority Trap: Constitutional Erosion of Reproductive Rights in Poland	4
Courts and Populist Electoral Politics – the Case of Hungary	4
Correction: International and European Law and the Catalan Secession Process: Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democracy at Stake?	4
Between a Rock-Hard Reality and a Pious Wish Place: Postema on the Rule of Law Beyond Borders	4
Informal Concentration of Powers in Illiberal Constitutionalism: The Case of Hungary	4
Academic Freedom as a Defensive Right	4
Reclaiming Political Rights During a Rule of Law Crisis: The Role of the UN Human Rights Committee	4

An Inquiry into the Implementing Mechanism of Xi Jinping Thought on Rule of Law	3
Quick Fix Solutions-Anticorruption as Core/Peripheral Modality of the ‘Rule of Law’	3
False Analogies? Rule of Law ‘Backsliding’ and Identitarian Claims in Hungary, Poland, and Romania	3
Amnesties, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law	3
Rule of Law Compliance Beyond Ticking Boxes	3
Triangulation of Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualizations Related to the Rule of Law	3
How a Paradoxical Protection of Democracy Can Fade Away: On the Erosion of the German Lisbon Judgment’s Authority	2
It Never Rains but it Pours. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal Declares the European Convention on Human Rights Unconstitutional	2
Urban Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges	2
Judicial Associations Across Europe: Balancing the Narrative	2
The Shifting Landscape of Judicial Independence Criteria Under the Preliminary Reference Procedure: A Comment on the CJEU’s Recent Case Law and the Trajectory of Article 267 TFEU	2
Militant Democracy and Rule of Law in Three Paradoxes: The Annulment of the Romanian Presidential Elections	2
Internalizing Public Disputes: The Rise of China’s Administrative Reconsideration Under Xi	2
Enforcement of a Formal Conception of the Rule of Law as a Potential Way Forward to Address Backsliding: Hungary as a Case Study	2
Rebuilding the Rule of Law in the Era of Democratic Backsliding	2
Crisis, Reinterpretation, and the Rule of Law: Repurposing ‘Cohesion’ as a General EU Spending Power	2
Militant Rule of Law and Not-so-Bad Law	2
The Council of Europe and the Catalan Secessionist Process: The Authoritarian Drift of the Radical Democratic Principle	2
Gender Inequality and the Rule of Law	2
Was There a Rule of Law in Early Modern Amsterdam? Mercantile Customary Law as a Test	2
Corruption and Separation of Powers: Where do Prosecutors Fit?	2
The Rule of Law and Corporate Actors: Measuring Influence	2
EU Enlargement Policy Goes East: Historical and Comparative Takes on the EU’s Rule of Law Conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine	2