OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Hague Journal on the Rule of Law is 3. 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
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
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
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
Deepening Democracy? Promises and challenges of Chile’s Road to a New Constitution	4
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
To Live and to Learn: The EU Commission’s Failure to Recognise Rule of Law Deficiencies in Lithuania	3