OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Law and Society 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
The price of positionality: assessing the benefits and burdens of self‐identification in research methods	21
The provenance of what is proven: exploring (mock) jury deliberation in Scottish rape trials	14
Continuities of exploitation: seasonal migrant workers in German agriculture during the COVID‐19 pandemic	13
Remote rituals in virtual courts	10
Seeking campus justice: challenging the ‘criminal justice drift’ in United Kingdom university responses to student sexual violence and misconduct	9
Labour Constitutions and Occupational Communities: Social Norms and Legal Norms at Work	8
Gender diversity on Malaysian corporate boards: a law and social movements perspective	7
Participation in a time of climate crisis	6
Finding a way to live with the past: ‘self‐repair’, ‘informal repair’, and reparations in transitional justice	6
Law, technology, and data‐driven security: infra‐legalities as method assemblage	6
Naming, blaming, claiming: an interview with Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat	6
Legal mobilization without resources? How civil society organizations generate and share alternative resources in vulnerable communities	5
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase: the transformation from a justiciable problem into a legal dispute	4
Feminist judging in lower courts	4
Capabilities, capacity, and consent: sexual intimacy in the Court of Protection	4
Law, ‘presentist’ agendas, and the making of ‘official’ memory after collective violence	4
What does gender equality need? Revisiting the formal and informal in feminist legal politics	4
It's about time: investigating the temporal in socio‐legal studies through unstructured interviews	3
Socio‐Legal Studies in 2020	3
Paper chains: tied visas, migration policies, and legal coercion	3
The politics of the production of knowledge on trauma: the Grenfell Tower Inquiry	3
Independent separate legal representation for rape complainants in adversarial systems: lessons from Northern Ireland	3
Neoliberalism, family law, and the devaluation of care	3
Faces of hunger: an intersectional approach to children's right to food in the United Kingdom	3
Home: A Vehicle for Resistance? Exploring Emancipatory Entanglements of ‘Vehicle Dwelling’ in a Changing Policy Context	3

When law and data collide: the methodological challenge of conducting mixed methods research in law	3
From contestation to conviction: terrorism expertise before the courts	3
‘What about the poor people's rights?’ The dismantling of social citizenship through access to justice and welfare reform policy	3
Redefining consent: rape law reform, reasonable belief, and communicative responsibility	3
Beyond Social Constructionism? Cicourel and the Search for Ecological Validity	2
Journeying the everyday of civic space: movement as method in socio‐legal studies	2
Disability Law as an Academic Discipline: Towards Cohesion and Mainstreaming?	2
Child welfare, Indigenous parents, and judicial mediation	2
‘The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
Human–algorithm hybrids as (quasi‐)organizations? On the accountability of digital collective actors	2
Becoming a feminist methodologist while researching sexual violence support services	2
‘Left Pessimists’ in ‘Rose Coloured Glasses’? Reflections on the Political Economy of Socio‐Legal Studies and (Legal) Academic Well‐Being	2
Political constitutionalism and populism	2
‘Victims not wrongdoers’: the legal consciousness of rejected asylum seekers in Norway	2
Vehicles for justice: buses and advancement	2
From shame to guilt: negotiating moral and legal responsibility within apologies for historical institutional abuse	2
The crafty power of text: methods for a sociology of legislative drafting	2
Tradition and reinvention: the making and unmaking of herbal medicines in the UK	2
Doing diversity in the legal profession in England and Wales: why do disabled people continue to be unexpected?	2
Governing canal life	2
Labour is labour: what surrogates can learn from the Sex Work Is Work movement	2
Invisible labour: legal dimensions of invisibilization	2
Belonging beyond the binary: from Byzantine eunuchs and Indian hijras to gender‐fluid and non‐binary identities	2
Gendering the Legal Complex: Women in Sri Lanka's Legal Profession	2
A duty to protect? Legal consciousness among military officers in armed conflict	2
Guilty pleas in children: legitimacy, vulnerability, and the need for increased protection	1
Law and childbirth in Ireland after the 8^th Amendment: notes on women's legal consciousness	1
Disruptive accountability? Temporal regimes and social change in decolonization struggles in Belgium	1
Epistemic othering: the interplay of knowledges in legislative drafting	1
A tale of many jurisdictions: how universal jurisdiction is creating a transnational judicial space	1
The politics of preservation: oral history, socio‐legal studies, and praxis	1
What can contract law learn from #MeToo?	1
Labour/data justice: a new framework for labour/regulatory datafication	1
Indications of goal displacement induced by budget cuts and output management: a case study of a regulatory enforcement agency in the Netherlands	1
Accountability and offsetting in environmental law enforcement	1
Justifying and practising effective participation in the Court of Protection: an empirical study^*	1
The making of neoliberal legality: the legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America	1
The Changing Position of Legal Academics in the United Kingdom: Professionalization or Proletarianization?	1
Selecting a lawyer: the practical arrangement of police station legal assistance	1
The possible forms of professionalism: credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales	1
Legislating for a Pandemic: Exposing the Stateless State	1
Intermediaries in the criminal justice system and the ‘neutrality paradox’	1
Administrative Justice in Wales	1
The centres and margins of transnational law: potential developments and methodological challenges	1
Global legal change from below and above	1
Mobilizing anti‐discrimination law: the litigation strategies of UK and French trade unions compared	1
‘Wrong’ cases and ‘wrong’ plaintiffs: intergenerational relationships and legal consciousness in China	1
A reflection on 30 years of complementary collaboration	1
Lawyers as infrastructures: mediations, blockages, and new possibilities in grassroots movements	1
A bloody mess? UK regulation of menopause discrimination and the need for reform	1

Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making	1
Where are the numbers? Challenging the barriers to quantitative socio‐legal scholarship in the United Kingdom	1
Navigating internet‐mediated ethnography for socio‐legal researchers	1
‘F**k this game … I'm off’: financial and emotional factors in declining legal representation in miscarriage of justice cases	1
Synthesize this: integrating innovation governance and EU regulation of synthetic biology	1
A socio‐legal quest: from jurisprudence to sociology of law and back again	1
Law, language, and the power of ‘invisible threats’ of violence against women	1
Arbitration vis‐à‐vis other professions: a sociology of professions account of international commercial arbitrators	1
Speaking up: why people dare to sue the government in China	1