OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Comparative Law 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Politicization of Corporate Governance: A Viable Alternative?	10
Mapping the Cosmopolitan Legal Imaginary: Recent Chinese Scholarship on Dispute Resolution	8
Pau Bossacoma, Morality and Legality of Secession: A Theory of National Self-Determination	5
On Comparative Law’s Repressed Colonial Governance	4
Index for Volume 69	4
The Historical Origins of the Horizontal Effect Problem in the United States and Japan: How the Reach of Constitutional Rights into the Private Sphere Became a Problem	4
Comparative Constitution Making The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions	4
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World	3
The Social Enterprise: A New Form of Enterprise?	3
The Autonomy-Based Account of Chinese Trust Laws	3
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2020: Thirty-Fourth Annual Survey	2
City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity	2
Complex Systems of Property: Change and Resilience After a Catastrophic Disaster	2
Comparing Islamic and International Laws of War: Orthodoxy, “Heresy,” and Secularization in the Category of Civilians	2
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	2
A Tale of Two Countries: Divorce in England and Prussia, 1670–1794	2
For Whose Sake and Benefit? A Critical Analysis of Leading International Treaty Proposals to Protect Nonhuman Animals	2
Decoding Judicial Cross-Citations: How Do European Judges Engage with Foreign Case Law?	1
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2023: Thirty-Seventh Annual Survey	1
A Legal and Political Assessment of Challenges to Abortion Laws by Anti-choice Activists in Australia and the Progression of Abortion Law in Australia and the United States	1
Redefining the Rule of Law: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study	1
The Rule of Law in the United States of America	1
Differences in a Minor Archive: Feminist Activists and Scholars on Cohabitation	1
Index	1
Private International Law Bibliography 2023: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	1

Generality and Exception in Islamic Legal Theory: Intent, Language, and the Jurist’s Role	1
Freedom of Speech and Regulation of Fake News	1
Expansion and Restriction: Divergent Paths Towards Modernizing Family Laws in Japan and China, 1868–1930	1
Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, or How Not to Study Chinese Law	1
Multicultural Populations and Mixed Legal Systems in the United States: Louisiana and Puerto Rico	1
Comment ça va? The Status of French Laws in Vanuatu	1
Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence	1
Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts	1
Proportionality in the Age of Populism	1
Private International Law Bibliography 2022: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	1
Excused Performances: Force Majeure, Impracticability, and Frustration of Contracts	1
The Law and Bioethics of End-of-Life Decisions	1
Luís Roberto Barroso’s Theory of Constitutional Adjudication: A Philosophical Reply	1
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2022: Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey	0
A New Legal Form for Social Enterprises in Asia	0
Death Penalty Abolitionism from the Enlightenment to Modernity	0
Legal Reasoning Across Commercial Disputes: Comparing Judicial and Arbitral Analyses	0
Artificial Intelligence Accountability of Public Administration	0
Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Private International Law in Classical Muslim International Law	0
Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction	0
Is Neutrality Possible? A Critique of the CJEU on Headscarves in the Workplace from a Comparative Perspective	0
The Authoritarian Commons: Divergent Paths of Neighborhood Democratization in Three Chinese Megacities	0
Democratic Backsliding, Subsidized Speech, and the New Majoritarian Entrenchment	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2021: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Criminalizing Atrocities: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes	0
Formal vs. Informal Voluntary Disclosure Policies	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2021: Thirty-Fifth Annual Survey	0
The Perils of Gender Self-Determination: Global Shifts in Sex Reclassification Law and Policy	0
The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis	0
Constitutional Dialogue Under Pressure: Constitutional Remedies in Israel as a Test Case	0
Path Dependence, Systemic Will, and the Transformation of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law	0
Corporate Law and Political Economy in a Kleptocracy	0
Courts, Constitutionalism, and State Capacity: A Preliminary Inquiry	0
How Constitutional Rights Matter	0
Toward an Account of the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide	0
A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn	0
Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory OpinionsSeeking the Court’s Advice: The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power	0
Precedents and Chinese Judges: An Experiment	0
The Importance of Being First: Economic and Non-economic Dimensions of Inventorship in American and German Law	0
Editors’ Note	0
The Role of Comparative Law in Political Science	0
Understanding the Psychology of Social Order	0
Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands	0
The U.S. National Report on the Independence and Impartiality of International Adjudicators	0
Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments	0
The War Within Religion: Towards a More Nuanced Resolution of Religion–Equality Conflicts	0
A Colonial Legal Laboratory? Jurisprudential Innovation in British India	0
The Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights	0
Evaluation of Evidence: Pre-modern and Modern Approaches	0
Buddhist Rules About Rules: Procedure and Process in the (Theravāda) Buddhist Legal System	0

The False Hope of Stewardship in the Context of Controlling Shareholders: Making Sense Out of the Global Transplant of a Legal Misfit	0
Rechtsvergleichung im Völkerrecht	0
Constitutional Morality: An Indian Framework	0
The Purposive Transformation of Corporate Law	0
Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19	0
Comparative Law and Economics: Aspirations and Hard Realities	0
Legal Perspectives on the Streaming Industry: The United States	0
The Family of the City, the Family of the Country	0
After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It	0
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia	0
Strategic Judicial Empowerment	0
The Turn to Confession Bargaining in German Criminal Procedure: Causes and Comparisons with American Plea Bargaining	0
Chemical Pollution and Regulatory Choices at the Start of Industrialization: Comparing France and Great Britain	0
National Security Secrecy: Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law	0
Judging as Crime: A Transatlantic Perspective on Criminalizing Excesses of Judicial Discretion	0
New Media and Freedom of Expression: Rethinking the Constitutional Foundations of the Public Sphere	0
Editors’ Note	0
The Constitution of the Russian Federation: A Contextual Analysis	0
Colonial Compensation and the Judicial Process: South Korea–Japan Disputes Revisited	0
The Role of Comparative Law in the Analysis of Judicial Behavior	0
Administrative Procedure Acts in Europe: An Emerging “Common Core”?	0
The Irony of British Human Rights Exceptionalism, 1948–1998	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2020: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments: A Critical Assessment of the 1996 South African Constitution’s Local and International Influence	0
Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma	0
Cryptocurrencies: The Impossible Domestic Law Regime?	0
The Myth of Transnational Public Policy in International Arbitration	0
EU Law in Populist Times: Crises and Prospects	0
No Peace Without Punishment? Reintegrating Islamic State “Collaborators” in Iraq	0
The Legal Metaverse and Comparative Taxonomy: A Reappraisal	0
Pejorative Assertions, Human Rights Evaluation, and European Veiling Laws	0
Are Political “Attacks” on the Judiciary Ever Justifiable? The Relationship Between Unfair Criticism and Public Accountability	0
The Role of Comparative Law in the Social Sciences: An Introduction	0
Changing of the Guard: Two “Gatekeepers” Bid Adieu	0
Beyond Transplant: A Network Innovation Model of Transnational Regulatory Change	0
Index	0
Autonomous Vehicles and Liability Law	0
The Jurisdictional Vacuum: Transnational Corporate Human Rights Claims in Common Law Home States	0
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal Globalization and the Subversion of Liberal Democracy	0
Deciding Between Contradicting Norms: Rights-Based Law vs. Duty-Based Law and Their Social Ramifications	0
Access to Civil Justice	0
The Womb Monologues: Toward A Mizrahi Feminist Theory of Israeli Law	0
Acquisitive Prescription of Artwork and Other High-Value Movables: A Comparative Case Study of Litigation and Legislation in Louisiana, Germany, and Russia	0
Global Value Chains, Labor Rights, and the Nature of Transnational Law	0
Response to Professor Ruskola	0
India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy	0
Extraterritorial Application of Statutes and Regulations	0
European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy	0
Using Criminal Law to Fight Corruption: The Potential, Risks, and Limitations of Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato)	0
Constitutional Transition and the Travail of Judges: The Courts of South Korea	0
Climate Change Impact on Agrarian Law: Legal Aspects of Food Security in the United States	0
Through a Glass, Darkly: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Opacity	0
The Contested Concept of Secularism and Bangladesh	0
Substantive Legitimate Expectations: Re-shaping the Boundaries of Judicial Reach in Public Law Remedies in Commonwealth Jurisdictions	0
Reasonableness as Responsiveness in Administrative Law in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada: Kant and Arendt on the Role of the Community in Deferential Judicial Review	0
Private Takings of Land for Urban Redevelopment: A Tale of Two Cities	0
Relational Sociology and Comparative Law	0
Editors’ Note	0
The Constitution of Arbitration	0
Challenges in the Interdisciplinary Use of Comparative Law	0