OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Legal Studies is 1. 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
Criminalising deceptive sex: sex, identity and recognition	8
Regulatory discretion: structuring power in the era of regulatory capitalism	7
Virtual coercion and the vulnerable consumer: ‘loot boxes’ as aggressive commercial practices	7
Automated facial recognition and policing: a Bridge too far?	6
Love in the time of Covid-19: a case-study of the complex laws governing weddings	6
The goals of EU competition law: a comprehensive empirical investigation	6
What shall I compare thee to? Legal journals, impact, citation and peer rankings	5
Exploring the emotional burdens and impact of medical negligence litigation on the plaintiff and medical practitioner: insights from Ireland	5
Compulsory licensing: an effective tool for securing access to Covid-19 vaccines for developing states?	5
More paternalism in the regulation of consumer financial investments? Private sector duties and public goods analysis	4
The incoherent role of the child's identity in the construction and allocation of legal parenthood	4
Enforcing rights in employment tribunals: insights from age discrimination claims in a new ‘dataset’	4
The nature of property in cryptoassets	4
A capabilities approach to best interests assessments	4
Apologies as ‘shame management’: the politics of remorse in the aftermath of historical institutional abuse	4
Practical obstacles and structural legal constraints in the adoption of ‘defensive’ policies: comparing the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and the US Proposal for a Border Carbon Adjustment	3
Online tribunal judgments and the limits of open justice	3
A theory of children's decisional privacy	3
Schmitt, Dicey, and the power and limits of referendums in the United Kingdom	3
Executive compensation: investor preferences during say-on-pay votes and the role of proxy voting advisers	3
Disputing death: brain death in the courts	3
Constitutional functions and institutional responsibility: a functional analysis of the UK constitution	3
Embedding alternative dispute resolution in the civil justice system: a taxonomy for ADR referrals and a digital pathway to increase the uptake of ADR	3
Mental health and wellbeing at work in the UK: current legal approaches	3
‘Climate Change isn't Optional’: Climate Change in the Core Law Curriculum	2

Planning, discretion and the legacy of onshore wind	2
Re-examining judicial review of delegated legislation	2
(Legal) assistance in employment matters to low-paid EU migrant workers in the East of England	2
Vaccine damage schemes in the US and UK reappraised: making them fit for purpose in the light of Covid-19	2
The neglected nexus between competition law and human rights: standard of proof for pecuniary penalties	2
Les vulnérables : evaluating the vulnerability criterion in Article 14 cases by the European Court of Human Rights	2
Vaccination, conscientious objection and human rights	2
The crisis in legally aided criminal defence in Wales: bringing Wales into discussions of England and Wales	2
Developing a relational law of contracts: striking a balance between abstraction and contextualism	2
Foreign-trained legal scholars in the UK: ‘irritants’ or ‘change agents’?	2
Gone and forgotten: Vinogradoff's historical jurisprudence	2
Developing VAT treaties: international tax cooperation in times of global recovery	1
The prospects for pluralism in contract theory	1
Patents, healthcare and engaged shareholders: a pathway to encourage socially responsible patent use?	1
Professional identity, legitimacy and managerialism at the Crown Prosecution Service	1
Injunctions, land and the cynical breach	1
Is the incompatibility of UK data retention law with EU law really a victory?	1
When is illegality a defence to a tort?	1
‘Mediators mediating themselves’: tensions within the family mediator profession	1
The vicarious liability of sports governing bodies and competition organisers	1
Legal dispositionism and artificially-intelligent attributions	1
The relational impact of social rights judgments: a trust-based analysis	1
Enforcing charitable trusts: a study on the English necessary interest rule	1
Exclusive jurisdiction clauses in international trust deeds	1
Regulating high-cost short-term credit in the UK: is there scope for ‘libertarian paternalism’ based provisions?	1
The evolution and consequences of digital rights management in relation to online music streaming	1
Where the wild things are: the challenges and opportunities of the unregulated legal services landscape in family law	1
Bridging the accountability gap of artificial intelligence – what can be learned from Roman law?	1
Exclusive jurisdiction clauses in international trust deeds – ERRATUM	1
Conversations with friends: ‘friends of the Court’ interventions of the state parties to the European Convention on Human Rights	1
Permitting dual class shares in the UK premium listing regime – a path to enhance rather than compromise investor protection	1
Statutory interpretation after Brexit: implications from a case study of VAT	1
Delegated legislation in the pandemic: further limits of a constitutional bargain revealed	1
Education, Law and Diversity: Schooling for One and All? by Neville Harris. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 616 pp (£90, hardback) ISBN: 978-1-50-990670-3	1
Contesting the property paradigm amid ‘radical’ constitutional change: Living Rent and the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016	1
Insurer's liability under concurrent causation: English law and Chinese law compared	1
The law of fixtures and chattels: recalibration, rationalisation and reform	1
Comparing family property disputes in English and Singapore law: ‘context is everything’	1