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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts	17
Julie Rocheton, The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Civil Codes in the United States	15
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	10
Private International Law Bibliography 2024: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	9
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World	9
Excused Performances: Force Majeure, Impracticability, and Frustration of Contracts	5
Constitutional Duties	4
Artificial Intelligence Accountability of Public Administration	4
Formal vs. Informal Voluntary Disclosure Policies	4
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia	4
The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis	3
Standard Form Contracts and the Erosion of Consent: Is There No Turning Back?	3
Legal Reasoning Across Commercial Disputes: Comparing Judicial and Arbitral Analyses	3
Supreme Courts in Polarized Societies: A Comparative Study of Brazil, India, and Israel	3
The Legal Innovation Sandbox	3
The Authoritarian Commons: Divergent Paths of Neighborhood Democratization in Three Chinese Megacities	2
Beyond Transplant: A Network Innovation Model of Transnational Regulatory Change	2
Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments	2
A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn	2
City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity	1
Abortion Rights Through Consensus	1
Rediscovering the Constitutional Preamble? How Judges Enlist Preambles to Legitimate Transformative Interpretations	1
No Peace Without Punishment? Reintegrating Islamic State “Collaborators” in Iraq	1
Comparative Constitution Making The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions	1
Redefining the Rule of Law: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study	1

Death Penalty Abolitionism from the Enlightenment to Modernity	1
The Rule of Law in the United States of America	1
Christopher Roberts, Alternative Approaches to Human Rights: The Disparate Historical Paths of the European, Inter-American and African Regional Human Rights Systems	1
Complex Systems of Property: Change and Resilience After a Catastrophic Disaster	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
Jorge L. Esquirol , Ruling the Law : Legitimacy and Failure in Latin American Legal Systems	1
Mapping the Cosmopolitan Legal Imaginary: Recent Chinese Scholarship on Dispute Resolution	1
Multicultural Populations and Mixed Legal Systems in the United States: Louisiana and Puerto Rico	1
Treaty for a Lost City: The Sino-British Joint Declaration	1
Freedom of Speech and Regulation of Fake News	1
The Social Enterprise: A New Form of Enterprise?	1
The Family of the City, the Family of the Country	1
Fighting Crime in Non-Criminal Proceedings: A Comparative Study of American Civil Forfeiture and Italian Preventive Confiscation	1
Editors’ Note	1
Cryptocurrencies: The Impossible Domestic Law Regime?	1
Evaluation of Evidence: Pre-modern and Modern Approaches	1
Strategic Judicial Empowerment	1
Adjectival Constitutionalism	1
David Driesen, The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power (Stanford University Press, 2021)	1
Autonomous Vehicles and Liability Law	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2023: Thirty-Seventh Annual Survey	0
Expansion and Restriction: Divergent Paths Towards Modernizing Family Laws in Japan and China, 1868–1930	0
Response to Professor Ruskola	0
Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma	0
Making Legal Transplant Meaningful in a New Context: Geographical Indications from Europe to China	0
Daphne Barak Erez, Biblical Judgments: New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2023: 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
EU Law in Populist Times: Crises and Prospects	0
Is Neutrality Possible? A Critique of the CJEU on Headscarves in the Workplace from a Comparative Perspective	0
The Relationship Between Global Law and the Individual: Symbiosis, Oscillation, and Strategic Subjectification	0
National Security Secrecy: Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2021: Thirty-Fifth Annual Survey	0
Criminalizing Atrocities: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes	0
The Autonomy-Based Account of Chinese Trust Laws	0
New Media and Freedom of Expression: Rethinking the Constitutional Foundations of the Public Sphere	0
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal Globalization and the Subversion of Liberal Democracy	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2022: Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey	0
Support for Constitutional Rights During Crisis: Evidence from the Pandemic	0
Family Law and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Change and Stasis in the Arab Spring	0
The Womb Monologues: Toward A Mizrahi Feminist Theory of Israeli Law	0
Path Dependence, Systemic Will, and the Transformation of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law	0
The Irony of British Human Rights Exceptionalism, 1948–1998	0
The Jurisdictional Vacuum: Transnational Corporate Human Rights Claims in Common Law Home States	0
On Comparative Law’s Repressed Colonial Governance	0
Constitutional Repair: A Comparative Theory	0
Rules Versus Standards in Shareholder Protection under Chinese Law: A New Taxonomy and Empirical Analysis	0
The Myth of Transnational Public Policy in International Arbitration	0
The Politicization of Corporate Governance: A Viable Alternative?	0

Acquisitive Prescription of Artwork and Other High-Value Movables: A Comparative Case Study of Litigation and Legislation in Louisiana, Germany, and Russia	0
Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands	0
Are Political “Attacks” on the Judiciary Ever Justifiable? The Relationship Between Unfair Criticism and Public Accountability	0
Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives Rebecca J. Cook ed.	0
Marta Cartabia & Nicola Lupo, The Constitution of Italy: A Contextual Analysis (Hart Publishing, 2022)	0
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2024: Thirty-Eighth Annual Survey	0
Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory OpinionsSeeking the Court’s Advice: The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power	0
Transnational Configurations of the Criminalization–Racialization Nexus and the Origins of International Cannabis Prohibitions	0
Jacqueline E. Ross & Thierry Delpeuch , Making Sense of Youth Crime	0
Intestacy and Inequality Under China’s Revised Succession Law	0
Tax Procedure and Distributive Discourse	0
Substantive Legitimate Expectations: Re-shaping the Boundaries of Judicial Reach in Public Law Remedies in Commonwealth Jurisdictions	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2022: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	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
Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Private International Law in Classical Muslim International Law	0
Differences in a Minor Archive: Feminist Activists and Scholars on Cohabitation	0
The U.S. National Report on the Independence and Impartiality of International Adjudicators	0
Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction	0
Lawful but Awful: Evolving Legislative Responses to Address Online Misinformation, Disinformation, and Mal-Information in the Age of Generative AI	0
Index	0
Administrative Procedure Acts in Europe: An Emerging “Common Core”?	0
Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence	0
The Perils of Gender Self-Determination: Global Shifts in Sex Reclassification Law and Policy	0
Comparing the Machineries of Extradition: Between Functional and Cultural Approaches	0
Rechtsvergleichung im Völkerrecht	0
Freedom of Expression: The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought	0
Courts, Constitutionalism, and State Capacity: A Preliminary Inquiry	0
Pejorative Assertions, Human Rights Evaluation, and European Veiling Laws	0
Editors’ Note	0
Colonial Compensation and the Judicial Process: South Korea–Japan Disputes Revisited	0
Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19	0
The Law and Bioethics of End-of-Life Decisions	0
Constitutional Morality: An Indian Framework	0
Chemical Pollution and Regulatory Choices at the Start of Industrialization: Comparing France and Great Britain	0
Generality and Exception in Islamic Legal Theory: Intent, Language, and the Jurist’s Role	0
Changing of the Guard: Two “Gatekeepers” Bid Adieu	0
Deciding Between Contradicting Norms: Rights-Based Law vs. Duty-Based Law and Their Social Ramifications	0
Property Law: Comparative, Empirical and Economic Analysis	0
Court Curbing in the United Kingdom	0
The Non-Marital Presumption	0
The War Within Religion: Towards a More Nuanced Resolution of Religion–Equality Conflicts	0
The Legal Metaverse and Comparative Taxonomy: A Reappraisal	0
Global Value Chains, Labor Rights, and the Nature of Transnational Law	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 Constitution of Arbitration	0
Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, or How Not to Study Chinese Law	0
Redefining Law in China	0
The Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights	0
Decoding Judicial Cross-Citations: How Do European Judges Engage with Foreign Case Law?	0
Federalism and Vertical Tax Competition	0
Correction to: Making Legal Transplant Meaningful in a New Context: Geographical Indications from Europe to China	0
Private International Law Bibliography 2021: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English	0
Climate Change Impact on Agrarian Law: Legal Aspects of Food Security in the United States	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
Access to Civil Justice	0
After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It	0
András Koltay, Media Freedom and the Law: The Regulation of a Common European Idea (Routledge 2025)	0
The False Hope of Stewardship in the Context of Controlling Shareholders: Making Sense Out of the Global Transplant of a Legal Misfit	0
Comment ça va? The Status of French Laws in Vanuatu	0
The Turn to Confession Bargaining in German Criminal Procedure: Causes and Comparisons with American Plea Bargaining	0
From Legal Transplants to Policy Irritants: Chinese Economic Expansion and Global Legal Change	0
The Importance of Being First: Economic and Non-economic Dimensions of Inventorship in American and German Law	0
A New Legal Form for Social Enterprises in Asia	0
First Nations’ Citizenship and Kinship Compared: Belonging’s Stake in Legality	0
Constitutional Dialogue Under Pressure: Constitutional Remedies in Israel as a Test Case	0
Corporate Law and Political Economy in a Kleptocracy	0
Legal Perspectives on the Streaming Industry: The United States	0
The Varieties of Protestant House Churches Beyond Authoritarian Legality	0
Globetrotting Advocates: Foreign Barristers in Hong Kong Courts	0
Extraterritorial Application of Statutes and Regulations	0
The Taiwanese Roots of East Asia’s War Redress Movement: An Alternate Genealogy	0
The Legality Trap: Legal Co-optation Under Authoritarianism	0
Index	0
The Extraterritorial Reach of American Class Actions: A Conflict-of-Laws Approach	0