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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Index for Volume 69	11
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World	9
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	5
Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts	5
Artificial Intelligence Accountability of Public Administration	4
Excused Performances: Force Majeure, Impracticability, and Frustration of Contracts	4
The Legal Innovation Sandbox	3
India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy	3
The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis	3
Formal vs. Informal Voluntary Disclosure Policies	3
Legal Reasoning Across Commercial Disputes: Comparing Judicial and Arbitral Analyses	3
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia	3
Constitutional Duties	3
Relational Sociology and Comparative Law	3
Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments: A Critical Assessment of the 1996 South African Constitution’s Local and International Influence	2
Complex Systems of Property: Change and Resilience After a Catastrophic Disaster	2
A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn	2
Judging as Crime: A Transatlantic Perspective on Criminalizing Excesses of Judicial Discretion	2
Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments	2
The Authoritarian Commons: Divergent Paths of Neighborhood Democratization in Three Chinese Megacities	2
Beyond Transplant: A Network Innovation Model of Transnational Regulatory Change	2
The Social Enterprise: A New Form of Enterprise?	1
The Rule of Law in the United States of America	1
Toward an Account of the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide	1
The Constitution of the Russian Federation: A Contextual Analysis	1

No Peace Without Punishment? Reintegrating Islamic State “Collaborators” in Iraq	1
The Family of the City, the Family of the Country	1
Freedom of Speech and Regulation of Fake News	1
The Purposive Transformation of Corporate Law	1
Strategic Judicial Empowerment	1
Editors’ Note	1
Cryptocurrencies: The Impossible Domestic Law Regime?	1
City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity	1
Death Penalty Abolitionism from the Enlightenment to Modernity	1
Pau Bossacoma, Morality and Legality of Secession: A Theory of National Self-Determination	1
Challenges in the Interdisciplinary Use of Comparative Law	1
European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy	1
The Contested Concept of Secularism and Bangladesh	1
The Law and Bioethics of End-of-Life Decisions	0
Expansion and Restriction: Divergent Paths Towards Modernizing Family Laws in Japan and China, 1868–1930	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2021: Thirty-Fifth Annual Survey	0
The Role of Comparative Law in Political Science	0
EU Law in Populist Times: Crises and Prospects	0
The False Hope of Stewardship in the Context of Controlling Shareholders: Making Sense Out of the Global Transplant of a Legal Misfit	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2022: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
For Whose Sake and Benefit? A Critical Analysis of Leading International Treaty Proposals to Protect Nonhuman Animals	0
The Role of Comparative Law in the Analysis of Judicial Behavior	0
Path Dependence, Systemic Will, and the Transformation of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law	0
The Jurisdictional Vacuum: Transnational Corporate Human Rights Claims in Common Law Home States	0
Autonomous Vehicles and Liability Law	0
Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma	0
The Perils of Gender Self-Determination: Global Shifts in Sex Reclassification Law and Policy	0
Family Law and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Change and Stasis in the Arab Spring	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
The Extraterritorial Reach of American Class Actions: A Conflict-of-Laws Approach	0
The Role of Comparative Law in the Social Sciences: An Introduction	0
Using Criminal Law to Fight Corruption: The Potential, Risks, and Limitations of Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato)	0
The Constitution of Arbitration	0
The Irony of British Human Rights Exceptionalism, 1948–1998	0
Climate Change Impact on Agrarian Law: Legal Aspects of Food Security in the United States	0
Pejorative Assertions, Human Rights Evaluation, and European Veiling Laws	0
Corporate Law and Political Economy in a Kleptocracy	0
Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction	0
New Media and Freedom of Expression: Rethinking the Constitutional Foundations of the Public Sphere	0
Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Private International Law in Classical Muslim International Law	0
Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19	0
Comparative Constitution Making The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions	0
Substantive Legitimate Expectations: Re-shaping the Boundaries of Judicial Reach in Public Law Remedies in Commonwealth Jurisdictions	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2023: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Redefining the Rule of Law: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study	0
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	0
Differences in a Minor Archive: Feminist Activists and Scholars on Cohabitation	0
Chemical Pollution and Regulatory Choices at the Start of Industrialization: Comparing France and Great Britain	0
Comment ça va? The Status of French Laws in Vanuatu	0
Legal Perspectives on the Streaming Industry: The United States	0

Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2023: Thirty-Seventh Annual Survey	0
Acquisitive Prescription of Artwork and Other High-Value Movables: A Comparative Case Study of Litigation and Legislation in Louisiana, Germany, and Russia	0
Constitutional Dialogue Under Pressure: Constitutional Remedies in Israel as a Test Case	0
Comparing the Machineries of Extradition: Between Functional and Cultural Approaches	0
Changing of the Guard: Two “Gatekeepers” Bid Adieu	0
Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory OpinionsSeeking the Court’s Advice: The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power	0
Constitutional Morality: An Indian Framework	0
A New Legal Form for Social Enterprises in Asia	0
Response to Professor Ruskola	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2020: Thirty-Fourth Annual Survey	0
Courts, Constitutionalism, and State Capacity: A Preliminary Inquiry	0
The Womb Monologues: Toward A Mizrahi Feminist Theory of Israeli Law	0
Global Value Chains, Labor Rights, and the Nature of Transnational Law	0
The War Within Religion: Towards a More Nuanced Resolution of Religion–Equality Conflicts	0
The U.S. National Report on the Independence and Impartiality of International Adjudicators	0
Generality and Exception in Islamic Legal Theory: Intent, Language, and the Jurist’s Role	0
Administrative Procedure Acts in Europe: An Emerging “Common Core”?	0
Rechtsvergleichung im Völkerrecht	0
Property Law: Comparative, Empirical and Economic Analysis	0
The Relationship Between Global Law and the Individual: Symbiosis, Oscillation, and Strategic Subjectification	0
Buddhist Rules About Rules: Procedure and Process in the (Theravāda) Buddhist Legal System	0
The Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights	0
Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, or How Not to Study Chinese Law	0
Evaluation of Evidence: Pre-modern and Modern Approaches	0
Index	0
Is Neutrality Possible? A Critique of the CJEU on Headscarves in the Workplace from a Comparative Perspective	0
Multicultural Populations and Mixed Legal Systems in the United States: Louisiana and Puerto Rico	0
Proportionality in the Age of Populism	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2021: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Deciding Between Contradicting Norms: Rights-Based Law vs. Duty-Based Law and Their Social Ramifications	0
Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence	0
After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It	0
The Politicization of Corporate Governance: A Viable Alternative?	0
Extraterritorial Application of Statutes and Regulations	0
Editors’ Note	0
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal Globalization and the Subversion of Liberal Democracy	0
Are Political “Attacks” on the Judiciary Ever Justifiable? The Relationship Between Unfair Criticism and Public Accountability	0
National Security Secrecy: Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law	0
Understanding the Psychology of Social Order	0
The Turn to Confession Bargaining in German Criminal Procedure: Causes and Comparisons with American Plea Bargaining	0
The Legal Metaverse and Comparative Taxonomy: A Reappraisal	0
Access to Civil Justice	0
Comparative Law and Economics: Aspirations and Hard Realities	0
On Comparative Law’s Repressed Colonial Governance	0
Intestacy and Inequality Under China’s Revised Succession Law	0
The Myth of Transnational Public Policy in International Arbitration	0
Criminalizing Atrocities: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes	0
Private Takings of Land for Urban Redevelopment: A Tale of Two Cities	0
Colonial Compensation and the Judicial Process: South Korea–Japan Disputes Revisited	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2022: Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey	0
Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands	0
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	0
The Importance of Being First: Economic and Non-economic Dimensions of Inventorship in American and German Law	0
Mapping the Cosmopolitan Legal Imaginary: Recent Chinese Scholarship on Dispute Resolution	0
Index	0
Luís Roberto Barroso’s Theory of Constitutional Adjudication: A Philosophical Reply	0
The Autonomy-Based Account of Chinese Trust Laws	0
Decoding Judicial Cross-Citations: How Do European Judges Engage with Foreign Case Law?	0