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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Through a Glass, Darkly: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Opacity	10
Precedents and Chinese Judges: An Experiment	8
Using Criminal Law to Fight Corruption: The Potential, Risks, and Limitations of Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato)	5
Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction	4
Freedom of Speech and Regulation of Fake News	4
Democratic Backsliding, Subsidized Speech, and the New Majoritarian Entrenchment	4
Informal Institutional Elements as Both Preconditions and Consequences of Effective Formal Legal Rules: The Failure of Constitutional Institution Building in Hungary	4
Artificial Intelligence Accountability of Public Administration	4
Relational Sociology and Comparative Law	3
Comparative Law and Economics: Aspirations and Hard Realities	3
The Purposive Transformation of Corporate Law	3
The Role of Comparative Law in the Social Sciences: An Introduction	2
The Role of Comparative Law in the Analysis of Judicial Behavior	2
Autonomous Vehicles and Liability Law	2
Private Takings of Land for Urban Redevelopment: A Tale of Two Cities	2
The Turn to Confession Bargaining in German Criminal Procedure: Causes and Comparisons with American Plea Bargaining	2
Excused Performances: Force Majeure, Impracticability, and Frustration of Contracts	2
The Authoritarian Commons: Divergent Paths of Neighborhood Democratization in Three Chinese Megacities	2
Normal Rights, Just New: Understanding the Judicial Enforcement of Socioeconomic Rights	2
Climate Change Impact on Agrarian Law: Legal Aspects of Food Security in the United States	1
Challenges in the Interdisciplinary Use of Comparative Law	1
Constitutional Law of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy: Competence and Institutions in External Relations	1
Is Neutrality Possible? A Critique of the CJEU on Headscarves in the Workplace from a Comparative Perspective	1
International Law and Regional Norm Smuggling: How the EU and ASEAN Redefined the Global Regime on Human Trafficking	1
City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity	1

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World	1
Buddhist Rules About Rules: Procedure and Process in the (Theravāda) Buddhist Legal System	1
European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy	1
The Legal Metaverse and Comparative Taxonomy: A Reappraisal	1
Extraterritorial Application of Statutes and Regulations	1
The False Hope of Stewardship in the Context of Controlling Shareholders: Making Sense Out of the Global Transplant of a Legal Misfit	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
Comparing Islamic and International Laws of War: Orthodoxy, “Heresy,” and Secularization in the Category of Civilians	1
The Social Enterprise: A New Form of Enterprise?	1
The Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights	1
Corporate Law and Political Economy in a Kleptocracy	1
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal Globalization and the Subversion of Liberal Democracy	1
A Colonial Legal Laboratory? Jurisprudential Innovation in British India	1
Private International Law Bibliography 2022: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	1
Proportionality in the Age of Populism	1
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2020: Thirty-Fourth Annual Survey	1
The Politicization of Corporate Governance: A Viable Alternative?	1
The Irony of British Human Rights Exceptionalism, 1948–1998	0
Are Political “Attacks” on the Judiciary Ever Justifiable? The Relationship Between Unfair Criticism and Public Accountability	0
Deciding Between Contradicting Norms: Rights-Based Law vs. Duty-Based Law and Their Social Ramifications	0
Mapping the Cosmopolitan Legal Imaginary: Recent Chinese Scholarship on Dispute Resolution	0
Colonial Compensation and the Judicial Process: South Korea–Japan Disputes Revisited	0
Luís Roberto Barroso’s Theory of Constitutional Adjudication: A Philosophical Reply	0
The Question of Comparison	0
The Law and Bioethics of End-of-Life Decisions	0
Redefining the Rule of Law: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study	0
Rechtsvergleichung im Völkerrecht	0
The Perils of Gender Self-Determination: Global Shifts in Sex Reclassification Law and Policy	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2023: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Pejorative Assertions, Human Rights Evaluation, and European Veiling Laws	0
Toward an Account of the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide	0
Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence	0
Beyond Transplant: A Network Innovation Model of Transnational Regulatory Change	0
Understanding the Psychology of Social Order	0
Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands	0
Editors’ Note	0
Expansion and Restriction: Divergent Paths Towards Modernizing Family Laws in Japan and China, 1868–1930	0
Administrative Procedure Acts in Europe: An Emerging “Common Core”?	0
Response to Professor Ruskola	0
New Media and Freedom of Expression: Rethinking the Constitutional Foundations of the Public Sphere	0
For Whose Sake and Benefit? A Critical Analysis of Leading International Treaty Proposals to Protect Nonhuman Animals	0
Criminalizing Atrocities: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes	0
Chemical Pollution and Regulatory Choices at the Start of Industrialization: Comparing France and Great Britain	0
The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis	0
Complex Systems of Property: Change and Resilience After a Catastrophic Disaster	0
No Peace Without Punishment? Reintegrating Islamic State “Collaborators” in Iraq	0
How Constitutional Rights Matter	0
After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It	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 U.S. National Report on the Independence and Impartiality of International Adjudicators	0

Constitutional Transition and the Travail of Judges: The Courts of South Korea	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2021: Thirty-Fifth Annual Survey	0
Index for Volume 69	0
The Importance of Being First: Economic and Non-economic Dimensions of Inventorship in American and German Law	0
Evaluation of Evidence: Pre-modern and Modern Approaches	0
A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn	0
Comment ça va? The Status of French Laws in Vanuatu	0
Global Value Chains, Labor Rights, and the Nature of Transnational Law	0
Multicultural Populations and Mixed Legal Systems in the United States: Louisiana and Puerto Rico	0
Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, or How Not to Study Chinese Law	0
Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Private International Law in Classical Muslim International Law	0
Access to Civil Justice	0
Mapping Saudi Criminal Law	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2022: Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey	0
Legal Reasoning Across Commercial Disputes: Comparing Judicial and Arbitral Analyses	0
Decoding Judicial Cross-Citations: How Do European Judges Engage with Foreign Case Law?	0
Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments	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
Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments: A Critical Assessment of the 1996 South African Constitution’s Local and International Influence	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2021: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
The Contested Concept of Secularism and Bangladesh	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2023: Thirty-Seventh Annual Survey	0
The Constitution of the Russian Federation: A Contextual Analysis	0
A Symposium on Richard Albert’s Constitutional Amendments	0
Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma	0
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	0
The Jurisdictional Vacuum: Transnational Corporate Human Rights Claims in Common Law Home States	0
Constitutional Dialogue Under Pressure: Constitutional Remedies in Israel as a Test Case	0
The Womb Monologues: Toward A Mizrahi Feminist Theory of Israeli Law	0
The Autonomy-Based Account of Chinese Trust Laws	0
The War Within Religion: Towards a More Nuanced Resolution of Religion–Equality Conflicts	0
India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy	0
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia	0
Comparative Constitution Making The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions	0
A Symposium on Richard Albert’s Constitutional Amendments	0
Changing of the Guard: Two “Gatekeepers” Bid Adieu	0
Path Dependence, Systemic Will, and the Transformation of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law	0
Pau Bossacoma, Morality and Legality of Secession: A Theory of National Self-Determination	0
A New Legal Form for Social Enterprises in Asia	0
Death Penalty Abolitionism from the Enlightenment to Modernity	0
Judging as Crime: A Transatlantic Perspective on Criminalizing Excesses of Judicial Discretion	0
Differences in a Minor Archive: Feminist Activists and Scholars on Cohabitation	0
The Rule of Law in the United States of America	0
Strategic Judicial Empowerment	0
Index	0
Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19	0
The Family of the City, the Family of the Country	0
The Wuthering Heights of Constitutional Amendment: A Portrait of Contemporary Theory and Practice	0
EU Law in Populist Times: Crises and Prospects	0
National Security Secrecy: Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law	0
Generality and Exception in Islamic Legal Theory: Intent, Language, and the Jurist’s Role	0
Cryptocurrencies: The Impossible Domestic Law Regime?	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2020: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
The Role of Comparative Law in Political Science	0
Constitutional Morality: An Indian Framework	0
Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory OpinionsSeeking the Court’s Advice: The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power	0
Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts	0
Editors’ Note	0
Acquisitive Prescription of Artwork and Other High-Value Movables: A Comparative Case Study of Litigation and Legislation in Louisiana, Germany, and Russia	0
Courts, Constitutionalism, and State Capacity: A Preliminary Inquiry	0
A Tale of Two Countries: Divorce in England and Prussia, 1670–1794	0
The Myth of Transnational Public Policy in International Arbitration	0
Editors’ Note	0
Formal vs. Informal Voluntary Disclosure Policies	0
On Comparative Law’s Repressed Colonial Governance	0
The Constitution of Arbitration	0
Legal Perspectives on the Streaming Industry: The United States	0
Index	0
Index for Volume 68	0