OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of International Dispute Settlement is 0. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Application of the Principle of Unity in the Legal Settlement of Sovereignty Disputes over Islands and Other Maritime Features	8
Returning the Home State to the Global Anti-Corruption Campaign	5
Sun from Behind the Clouds: the Appeals Board of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts	4
A tale of two cities: the education and experiences of two ICJ judges in China and America	4
Investment Facilitation for Development and the Reform of International Investment Dispute Settlement Mechanism: The Choice of Developing Countries	3
Individual Opinions as an Agent of International Legal Development?	3
Enhancing access to digital justice: digital governance of dispute resolution and dispute prevention in online commercial activities	3
Rethinking transparency through the public–private prism: the case of the ICC–NGOs partnership	3
A case note of the review of the objection by the Russian Federation to a decision of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (CMM 01-2023) (PCA Case No. 2023-33	3
Missing Masters: Causes, Consequences and Corrections for States’ Disengagement from the Investment Treaty System	3
Enhancing anti-corruption via investment arbitration: from red flags to due diligence	3
Multiple proceedings and abuse of procedure on BRI disputes	2
Unusual Sources of Inspiration: Schrödinger and Everett	2
Advancing Predictability via a Judicialized Investment Court? A Fresh Look Through the Lens of Constructivism	2
Clarifying the clean hands doctrine under general international law	2
State Responsibility for the Conduct of Rebels in Situations of Unsuccessful Civil Wars: A Critical Analysis of the Cengiz v Libya Case	2
On the request for an advisory opinion on climate change under UNCLOS before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea	2
In memoriam: The profound impact of professor Armand de Mestral	2
Trade openness in developing countries and use of the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organisation	2
The proper role of the doctrine of incidental questions in international adjudication	2
Latin America and the Caribbean in the International Court of Justice—an empirical quantitative analysis (2000–24)	2
Of squares, spheres and the elusive third dimension	1
How to write a judgment: creative writing and international adjudication	1
Banning oil and gas activities under international investment law: a problem of indeterminacy	1
Unusual Sources of Inspiration: Springsteen	1

Damages and ISDS Reform: Between Procedure and Substance	1
A new analytical matrix for understanding International Investment Law Agreements in the Global South	1
Unveiling the ‘author’ of international law — The ‘legal effect’ of ICJ’s advisory opinions	1
Reflecting on the rule of law contestations narratives in the world trading system	1
‘China’s Disequilibrium’ in ISDS: an interplay of China’s trade-offs and domestic institutions to investment treaty policy	1
Reforming Shareholder Claims in Investor-State Dispute Settlement	1
Selection process of judges and members at international courts and tribunals: in search of efficient transparency	1
Much More than a Footnote (or Three): Frank C. Hendryx and an Untold Story of Petroleum Concessions and the Genesis of ICSID	1
The Rise of the International Commercial Court: A Threat to the Rule of Law?	1
International commercial courts and EU law: easing the tension	1
Reparations in environmental cases: should the International Criminal Court consider the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence?	1
The ‘It’ Arbitrator: Why Do Corporations Not Act as Arbitrators?	1
The importance of property in international investment law	1
Reflecting on the interpretation and application of the international convention for the suppression of the financing of terrorism in light of the Ukraine v Russia case	1
Article 17.6(ii) of the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement: Waiting for Chekhov’s Gun to Go Off	1
The two problem pillars of multiple proceedings in investment arbitration: why the abuse of process doctrine is a necessary remedy and requires focus in UNCITRAL’s ISDS reform	1
Cutting off the King’s Head: Rethinking Authority in International Law	1
Compulsory dispute settlement system under the BBNJ agreement: some considerations on future constraints	1
The Potential of the Singapore Convention on Mediation for Art and Cultural Property Disputes	1
When the Dragon comes Home to Roost: Chinese Investments in the EU, National Security, and Investor–State Arbitration	1
Three visions of transparency in international adjudication	1
Reimagining investor–state dispute settlement—or how to map indeterminacy and reform identity	0
Independence and impartiality through the lens of incompatible activities, disqualification and challenge: the ICJ, ITLOS, and inter-State arbitration	0
The Draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators in Investor–State Dispute Settlement: A Low-hanging Fruit in the ISDS Reform Process	0
Dynamics of change in international investment law	0
Trump’s tariffs: from a trade problem into an investment problem?	0
Implication of investment mediation: a possible path to tax-related investment dispute resolution regime	0
The myth of instant success: a historical account of the Commercial Court of England and Wales	0
Paradigms of justice and the limits of ISDS reform	0
The ‘Arbitralization’ of Courts: The Role of International Commercial Arbitration in the Establishment and the Procedural Design of International Commercial Courts	0
Provisional Measures after Ukraine v Russia (2022)	0
Reconceptualizing counterclaim assessment in investment treaty arbitration: a discourse on fairness through Rawlsian justice theory	0
New international commercial courts: a delocalized approach	0
The evolving lex mercatoria: a game-changer for transparency in international commercial arbitration	0
Inscrutable procedural orders: two models of transparency in international dispute settlement (ICSID and ICJ)	0
From Traction to Treaty-Bound: Jus Cogens, Erga Omnes and Corporate Subjectivity in International Investment Arbitration	0
The use of MFN clauses in investment arbitration: the problem of importation	0
Deripaska v Montenegro: the alpha and omega of State succession to BITs	0
Translucent justice: strategic transparency and the legitimacy of the ECtHR	0
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Deference in Investment Treaty Arbitration?	0
Correction to: Cutting off the King’s Head: Rethinking Authority in International Law	0
Why states refuse to participate in judicial proceedings: uncovering key reasons and historical evolution	0
Enhancing Conflict Resolution ‘ASEAN Way’: The Dispute Settlement System of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	0
Judicial reasoning as a mask: rationalizing the transparency of the law of the sea tribunals	0
Correction to: Enhancing access to digital justice: digital governance of dispute resolution and dispute prevention in online commercial activities	0
The afterlife of ISDS awards: post-award settlements and the limits of transparency reforms	0
The sovereign function test out of thin air? The status of the central bank determined behind the scenes in Certain Iranian Assets	0
Disputing supply chain security legislation in the context of WTO rules: litigability, legitimacy, and exceptionality	0
A framework of African Continental Free Trade Area dispute settlement mechanism: legal challenges	0
Pleading for international law: assessing the influence of party to proceedings on legal change in international courts	0

Influence in investor-state dispute settlement: a dynamic concept	0
The meaning of ‘very subject-matter of the dispute’ in the Monetary Gold rule of the International Court of Justice’s jurisprudence	0
Procedural rules and judicial practices: a good or bad match for transparency?	0
Beyond law and politics: an empirical study of judicial mediation in China	0
International organizations’ practice in the interpretation of their constituent instruments	0
The ‘Open System’ and Its Gatekeepers: From Complexity in International Law, a Seminar in Honour of James Crawford	0
Critics are not enemies	0
Mediation in Future Investor–State Dispute Settlement	0
Biased or Not Biased? Arbitral Decision-Making and Arbitrators’ Preferences	0
Experimentation at the WTO lab: towards a better ‘Interface’ to accommodate State-owned enterprises	0
The Origins and Operation of the General Principles of Law as Gap fillers	0
Environmental accountability: a case for international conciliation?	0
Erratum to: China and International Adjudication—Picking Up Steam?	0
Drawing boundaries of police powers doctrine: a balanced framework for investors and states	0
The interplay of Islamic principles of construction in English court: the case of NIOC v Crescent Petroleum	0
Getting ‘real’ about ISDS reform: a critical realist view of international investment law’s status quo	0
Ownership of the sea: evaluating how culture affects the success of dispute resolution techniques in resolving maritime boundary conflicts	0
Investment law and the digital economy	0
International sanctions enacted against Russia as overriding mandatory rules—on which foot should international arbitrators stand?	0
Towards Greater Investor Accountability: Indirect Actions, Direct Actions by States and Direct Actions by Individuals	0
Revisiting transparency standards in investor–state dispute settlement vis-à-vis third-party funding: how much transparency is too much transparency?	0
Editorial Series on Unusual Sources of Inspiration for International Dispute Settlement	0
Compensation in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: towards an equitable approach	0
Are the protections offered by EU law adequate alternatives to those offered by international investment law?	0
A tale of policy carve-outs and general exceptions: Eco Oro v Colombia as a case study	0
International investment law and public health: the need for forward-looking reforms	0
Selection and Appointment in International Adjudication: Insights from Political Science	0
Treaty interpretation, multilinguism, and the WTO dispute settlement system: towards the comparative translation paradigm?	0
Transparency as a pathway to align ICSID arbitration with sustainable development	0
The ‘no greater rights’ principle: heading to a new Calvo Clause?	0
The ICJ and the protection of foreign property under customary international law: quid novi?	0
Unusual Source of Inspiration: Cooking International Law	0
The proliferation of unilateral trade measures and the crisis of the multilateral trading system	0
State Compliance with International Law in Intelligence Matters: A Behavioural Approach	0
Insolvency of a party in international arbitration: considerations on staying arbitration proceedings	0
Arbitration in cross-border data protection disputes	0
Behavioural Compliance Theory	0
The resolution of professional tennis disputes	0
A golden mean approach to independence and impartiality in investment arbitration	0
Continental shelf delimitation beyond 200 nautical miles: Mauritius/Maldives and the forking paths in the jurisprudence	0
The effects of third-party intervention in the adjudication of maritime delimitation disputes	0
Competing over the continental shelf: the legal versus the geophysical entitlements	0
Admissibility of Counterclaims: The Practice of UNCLOS Tribunals	0
Reconsidering International Compensation in Historical Context	0
Keeping score: an empirical analysis of the interventions in Ukraine v Russia	0
Confronting the ‘Non-Market Economy’ Treatment: The Evolving World Trade Organization Jurisprudence on Anti-Dumping and China’s Recent Practices	0
De facto transparency?	0
Held in suspense: the past, present, and future of the suspension of proceedings at the International Court of Justice	0
Equitable representation on international benches and the appointment of tribunal members in investor–State dispute settlement: a historical perspective	0
Evidentiary challenges in the litigation of war reparations: Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (DRC v Uganda)	0
The Quadrilemma: Appointing Adjudicators in Future Investor–State Dispute Settlement	0
Sanctioning to Change State Behaviour	0
Transparency as performance: the ‘As Is’ and ‘As If’ worlds of international adjudication	0
Between a rock and a hard place: the impact of replacing or abolishing ISDS on investment-affected parties	0
Choice of court agreements in light of CJEU Decision in case C-566/22 Inkreal	0
The backlog-driven reform of the Initial Review of petitions in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights	0
Perception and Process: Towards a Behavioural Theory of Compliance	0
Transparency in investment treaty arbitration: past, present, and future	0
The uneasy delegation: conditional judicialization of international investment dispute settlement	0
When International Commercial Arbitration meets China’s sanction laws: living together but remaining apart?	0
The ICJ judgment on Nicaragua v Colombia (2022): applying an established jurisdictional test or a problematic invention?	0
The Mobil and Conoco cases against Venezuela: the good, the bad and the ugly	0
International arbitration of violent territorial disputes: what role for equity in achieving peaceful settlement?	0
The Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform Process: Design, Dilemmas and Discontents	0
Undermining the authority of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: cases of state’s weaponization of the value of transparency	0
Inter-court competition in non-adjudicative activities: a case study of the International Court of Justice presidential speeches, 1991–2022	0
Affects, Emotions, and the Cartesian Epistemology of International Law	0
New developments in the interpretation and application of the clean hands doctrine by investment tribunals	0
More transparency on regional human rights courts? What we (still) need to know to understand and access regional human rights justice	0
OECD National Contact Point Specific Instances: When ‘Soft Law’ Bites?	0
The precarity of the police powers doctrine in investment arbitration: Rockhopper v Italy	0
Trade, climate and differentiation: an analysis of the interaction between the ‘Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities’ and the WTO agreement	0
The Legislative Adjustment of Chinese Enforcement Regulation of the International Commercial Settlement Agreement in the context of the Singapore mediation convention	0
The legitimation of international adjudication	0
Is There Life After Death?: The Persuasive Value of Annulled Investment Awards	0
‘Lying with numbers’ in international arbitration against states	0
Towards clarity: the ‘may be affected’ requirement and non-party intervention at the International Court of Justice	0