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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Dual Dynamics of Chinese Constitutional Review: Coexistence and Tension Between Rule of Law and Party’s Leadership	44
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	43
Well-Tempered Power: ‘A Cultural Achievement of Universal Significance’	17
Reconciling Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union	15
Purging the Judiciary After a Transition: Between a Rock and a Hard Place	11
Heterodox Protest, the Conservative Right, and the Law	10
Private Power, the Rule of Law and the European Union	9
China’s Foreign-Related ‘Rule of Law’: The Evolution of an Idea	9
Pre-enlargement Reform Failures in the Western Balkans: Social and Economic Preconditions of the Rule of Law	8
The Rule of Law Under Pressure: A Transnational Perspective	7
Rule of Law and the Criteria for Appointment of Judges: A Case for Judicial Virtues	6
The Rule of Law as a Well-Established and Well-Defined Principle of EU Law	6
Correction: Triangulation of Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualizations Related to the Rule of Law	5
Aristocrats in Arbitration: Did Class Affect Inter-state Arbitration Before or After the 1899 Hague Peace Conference?	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
Informal Exercise of Power: Undermining Democracy Under the EU’s Radar in Hungary and Poland	4
Academic Freedom as a Defensive Right	4
Courts and Populist Electoral Politics – the Case of Hungary	4
Reclaiming Political Rights During a Rule of Law Crisis: The Role of the UN Human Rights Committee	4
Informal Concentration of Powers in Illiberal Constitutionalism: The Case of Hungary	4
The Authority Trap: Constitutional Erosion of Reproductive Rights in Poland	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	3
False Analogies? Rule of Law ‘Backsliding’ and Identitarian Claims in Hungary, Poland, and Romania	3
Triangulation of Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualizations Related to the Rule of Law	3

Amnesties, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law	3
Rule of Law Through the ‘Urban Turn’ in South African Constitutionalism	3
To Live and to Learn: The EU Commission’s Failure to Recognise Rule of Law Deficiencies in Lithuania	3
Quick Fix Solutions-Anticorruption as Core/Peripheral Modality of the ‘Rule of Law’	3
Maritime Rule of Law: Some Preliminaries	3
Rule of Law Compliance Beyond Ticking Boxes	3
An Inquiry into the Implementing Mechanism of Xi Jinping Thought on Rule of Law	3
EU Enlargement in Disregard of the Rule of Law: A Way Forward Following the Unsuccessful Dispute Settlement Between Croatia and Slovenia and the Name Change of Macedonia	3
It Never Rains but it Pours. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal Declares the European Convention on Human Rights Unconstitutional	2
The Council of Europe and the Catalan Secessionist Process: The Authoritarian Drift of the Radical Democratic Principle	2
Reconciling the Theory and the Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union Measuring the Rule of Law	2
Gender Inequality and the Rule of Law	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
COVID-19, The Rule of Law and Democracy. Analysis of Legal Responses to a Global Health Crisis	2
Was There a Rule of Law in Early Modern Amsterdam? Mercantile Customary Law as a Test	2
Urban Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges	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
EU Enlargement Policy Goes East: Historical and Comparative Takes on the EU’s Rule of Law Conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine	1
Judicial Associations Across Europe: Balancing the Narrative	1
Core, Periphery, and Universals in Rule of Law Promotion: Contextual (Dis)incentives, Conceptual Shifts	1
The Rule of Law as a Constitutional Mandate for the EU	1
The Systemic Implications of the Supranational Legal Order for the Practice of the Rule of Law	1
The Rule of Law and Corporate Actors: Measuring Influence	1
Militant Rule of Law and Not-so-Bad Law	1
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	1
From Liberal Democracy to Illiberal Populist Autocracy: Possible Reasons for Hungary’s Autocratization	1
Re-Imagining Customary Justice Systems: Interrogating Past Assumptions and Entertaining New Ones	1
Crisis, Reinterpretation, and the Rule of Law: Repurposing ‘Cohesion’ as a General EU Spending Power	1
Corruption and Separation of Powers: Where do Prosecutors Fit?	1
Spain as a Democratic State Governed by the Rule of Law and the Catalan Secessionist Process	1
Reinforcing Institutional Power: The Discourse of Normalcy in European Union Governance	1