OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation 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
From Datafication to Data State: Making Sense of China’s Social Credit System and Its Implications	17
Intersectional Invisibility: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Erasure of Sexual Minority Women in US Asylum Law	14
Before and After Ban the Box: Who Complies with Anti-Discrimination Law?	14
The Psychology of Migrant “Illegality”: A General Theory	13
Defining Crimes in a Global Age: Criminalization as a Transnational Legal Process	13
Balancing Atrocities and Forced Forgetting: Memory Laws as a Means of Social Control in Israel	12
An Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Supreme Court Justices’ Public Rhetoric on Perceptions of Judicial Legitimacy	9
Intensified Liminal Legality: The Impact of the DACA Rescission for Undocumented Young Adults in Colorado	9
The Exception as the Rule: Negligent Hiring Liability, Structured Uncertainty, and the Rise of Criminal Background Checks in the United States	9
Anthropologists as Experts: Cultural Expertise, Colonialism, and Positionality	8
A Conservative Right to Privacy: Legal, Ideological, and Coalitional Transformations in US Social Conservatism	8
Racial Disparities in Lifer Parole Outcomes: The Hidden Role of Professional Evaluations	8
Abolition: A New Paradigm for Reform	8
Digitizing and Disclosing Personal Data: The Proliferation of State Criminal Records on the Internet	8
The Sources of Resilience of International Human Rights Courts: The Case of the Inter-American System	7
Justices and Political Loyalties: An Empirical Investigation of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, 1987–2020	6
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline	6
Finding the “Humanity” in Human Rights: LGBT Activists and the Vernacularization of Human Rights in Hong Kong	5
Legal Threats and the Emergence of Legal Mobilization: Conservative Mobilization in Colombia	5
Monitoring Prisons in Europe: Understanding Perspectives of People in Prison and Prison Staff	5
“Going Out” and Going In-House: Chinese Multinationals’ Internal Legal Capacity in the United States	5
Degradation or Redemption? A Parole Board Polices a Moral Boundary	5
Legal Doctrine and Judicial Review of Eminent Domain in China	4
Legal Reactivity: Correctional Health Care Certifications as Responses to Litigation	4
Fighting Words: Pro-Choice Cause Lawyering, Legal-Framing Innovations, and Hostile Political-Legal Contexts	4

The Effect of Deliberation on Jurors’ Attitudes toward Jury Service in Criminal Cases	4
Interregna: Time, Law, and Resistance	4
Everyday Lawmaking in International Human Rights Law: Insights from the Inclusion of Domestic Violence in the Prohibition of Torture	4
“I’ve Had Cases That Have Gone in the Wrong Direction and That Has Affected Me”: A Qualitative Examination of Decision Making, Liminality, and the Emotional Aspects of Parole Work	3
Standardizing States of Emergency: Fragmented Legitimacy of Model Public Health Lawmaking	3
Home-State Interest, Nationalism, and the Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court	3
Diplomats in Robes: Judicial Career Paths and Free Speech Decision-Making at the European Court of Human Rights	3
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe	3
What’s in a Name: How US Supreme Court Justices Shape Law and Policy in the Lower Courts	3
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration	3
Self-Proclaimed Human Rights Heroes: The Professional Project of Israeli Military Judges	3
Exploring a Craft Learning Model for Reviewing Patrol Officer Decision-Making in Encounters with the Public	3
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections	3
Religious Exemption, LGBT Rights, and the Social Construction of Harm and Freedom	2
“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar	2
Rethinking Sanctuary: The Origins of Non-Cooperation Policies in Social Welfare Agencies	2
Lawfare and Security Labor: Subjectification and Subjugation of Police Workers in India	2
A Call out of Seir: The Meaning and Future of US Labor Law	2
Saying What the Law Is	2
Free Expression and Judicial Power in Colombia, India, and South Africa	2
Order in the Bazaar: The Transformation of Non-state Law in Afghanistan’s Premier Money Exchange Market	2
Anti-trafficking Chains: Analyzing the Impact of Transparency Legislation in the UK Construction Sector	2
Developing a Public Interest Response to State-Orchestrated Corruption	2
Same-sex Marriage Legalization and the Stigmas of LGBT Co-parenting in Taiwan	2
Money As Justice: Work-Related Deaths, Victim Workers’ Families, and Injustice in Turkey	2
I Come before You a Changed Man: “Insight,” Compliance, and Refurbishing Penal Practice in California	2
Not “Civilized” Enough to Be Taxed: Indigeneity, Citizenship, and the 1919 Alaska School Tax	2
Sex Ambiguity in Early Modern Common Law (1629–1787)	2
The New Politics of Judicial Appointments in Southern Africa	2
Prefigurative Legality	2
Authentic Compliance with a Symbolic Legal Standard? How Critical Race Theory Can Change Institutionalist Studies on Diversity in the Workplace	2
Political Divide, Weak Property Rights, and Infrastructure Provision: An Empirical Examination of Takings Decisions in Jerusalem	2
Persistence Despite Change: The Academic Gender Gap in Australian Law Schools	2
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-2020	2
Condominium to the Country: The Sprawl of Ownership within Private Local Government in British Columbia	2
Competing Allies: Legal Pluralism, and Gendered Agency in Mumbai’sShariaCourts	2
Property Rights: (Probabilistically) Necessary or Sufficient for Economic Development in China and Beyond?	2
Strong-arm Sobriety: Addressing Precarity through Probation	2
Counterpedagogy, Sovereignty, and Migration at the European Court of Human Rights	2
Giving and Taking Voice: Metapragmatic Dismissals of Parents in Child Welfare Court Cases	2
Claiming Religious Freedom at the European Court of Human Rights: Socio-Legal Field Effects on Legal Mobilization	2
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls – CORRIGENDUM	1
Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice	1
The Differential Use of Litigation by NGOs: A Case Study on Antidiscrimination Legal Mobilization in Belgium	1
How Civility Matters in Civil Matters: Procedural Justice and Court Legitimacy in the Midst of a Legitimacy Crisis	1
The Family Friendliness That Wasn’t: Access, but Not Progress, for Women in the Czech Judiciary	1
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy	1
The Logic of NIMBYism: Class, Race, and Stigma in the Making of California’s Legal Cannabis Market	1
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship	1
Rural Social Safety Nets for Migrant Farmworkers in Michigan, 1942–1971	1

Spies, Lies, Trials, and Trolls: Political Lawyering against Disinformation and State Surveillance in Russia	1
Negotiating Status: Pro Bono Partners and Counsels in Large Law Firms	1
Progressive Law, Activism, and Lawyering in an Age of Preemption	1
The Conflicting Uses of Prison Visitation in Mandate Palestine	1
Don’t Call It a Failure: Systemic Risk Governance for Complex Financial Systems	1
Cyborgs, Torturers, and the Making of Forensic Psychological Knowledge	1
The Judge as a Negotiator: Claims Negotiating and Inequalities in China’s Judicial Mediation	1
Many Shades of Success: Bottom-up Indicators of Individual Success in Community Courts	1
Between Human Rights and Civil Society: The Case of Israel’s Apartheid Enablers	1
The Gender Pay Gap and High-Achieving Women in the Legal Profession	1
Aspirational Laws in Action: A Field Experiment	1
Appointed or Elected: How Justices on Elected State Supreme Courts Are Actually Selected	1
The Search for an Anchor: Living Constitutionalism from the Progressives to Trump	1
Rights Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Belonging: An Empirical Inquiry into the Israeli Case	1
The Possibility of Rights Claims-Making in Court: Looking Back on Twenty-Five Years of Social Rights Constitutionalism in South Africa	1
Book Notes	1
Supply Chain Governance at a Distance	1
Divorced from Citizenship: Palestinian-Christian Women between the Church and the Jewish State	1
Canceling Disputes: How Social Capital Affects the Arbitration of Disputes on Wikipedia	1
From Global Interventionism to Domestic Police Militarization: The Transnational Routes of American Policing	1
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts	1
Rights, Redistribution, and the Rise of the “Litigation State”: The Case of Disability Discrimination Laws	1
Case Sensitive: Lawyers and the Formation of Legal Arguments in Tanzania	1
How the Public Became the Caller: The Emergence of Reactive Policing, 1880–1970	1
Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession	1
Altruism at Work: An Integrated Approach to Voluntary Service among Private Practice Lawyers	1
Property Markers and the Hassle of Leniency: Building Code Enforcement in the Courtroom	1
Torture in Thailand at the Limits of Law	1
The Case for Religious Constitutions: Comparative Constitutional Law among Buddhists and Other Religious Groups	1
Bad Queers: LGBTQ People and the Carceral State in Modern America	1
Administering New Anti-Bullying Law: The Organizational Field and School Variation During Initial Implementation	1
Broadening the Lens of Procedural Justice Beyond the Courtroom: A Case Study of Legal Financial Obligations in the Juvenile Court	1
Thinking Holistically About Procedural Justice in Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Case Study of the German Federal Ombudsman Scheme	1
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls	1
Punishment by Association: The Burden of Attending Court for Legal Bystanders	1
Substituting Invalid Contract Terms: Theory and Preliminary Empirical Findings	1
Prison Disproportion in Democracies: A Comparative Analysis	1
Law and the Laboratory: The British Vivisection Inspectorate in the 1890s	1
Ethnography at an Intersection: Law, Anti-Trafficking NGOs, and Prostitution in India	1
Contracting for Terroir in Sake	1
Students, Sodomy, and the State: LGBT Campus Struggles in the 1970s	1
Strategic Adaptation in a Crisis: Treatment Court Responses to COVID-19	1
The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms	1
“It Is Here We Are Loved”: Rural Place Attachment in Active Judging and Access to Justice	1
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment	1
Law’s Normative Influence on Gender Schemas: An Experimental Study on Counteracting Workplace Bias against Mothers and Caregivers	1
Violence against Women and Specialized Justice in Guatemala: Advances and Limitations	1
The Datafication of Law: How Technology Encodes Carceral Power and Affects Judicial Practice in the United States	1