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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Place of Punishment in Twenty-First-Century America: Understanding the Persistence of Mass Incarceration	15
Intersectional Invisibility: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Erasure of Sexual Minority Women in US Asylum Law	13
Defining Crimes in a Global Age: Criminalization as a Transnational Legal Process	12
Before and After Ban the Box: Who Complies with Anti-Discrimination Law?	12
From Datafication to Data State: Making Sense of China’s Social Credit System and Its Implications	11
Balancing Atrocities and Forced Forgetting: Memory Laws as a Means of Social Control in Israel	11
“Work Your Story”: Selective Voluntary Disclosure, Stigma Management, and Narratives of Seeking Employment After Prison	8
The Exception as the Rule: Negligent Hiring Liability, Structured Uncertainty, and the Rise of Criminal Background Checks in the United States	8
The Psychology of Migrant “Illegality”: A General Theory	8
A Conservative Right to Privacy: Legal, Ideological, and Coalitional Transformations in US Social Conservatism	7
Digitizing and Disclosing Personal Data: The Proliferation of State Criminal Records on the Internet	7
Anthropologists as Experts: Cultural Expertise, Colonialism, and Positionality	6
An Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Supreme Court Justices’ Public Rhetoric on Perceptions of Judicial Legitimacy	6
Racial Disparities in Lifer Parole Outcomes: The Hidden Role of Professional Evaluations	6
Intensified Liminal Legality: The Impact of the DACA Rescission for Undocumented Young Adults in Colorado	6
Marxist Theories of Law Past and Present: A Meditation Occasioned by the 25th Anniversary ofLaw, Labor, and Ideology	5
Do People Like Mandatory Rules? The Impact of Framing and Phrasing	5
Degradation or Redemption? A Parole Board Polices a Moral Boundary	5
Monitoring Prisons in Europe: Understanding Perspectives of People in Prison and Prison Staff	5
Is Facebook the Internet? Ethnographic Perspectives on Open Internet Governance in Brazil	4
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline	4
Justices and Political Loyalties: An Empirical Investigation of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, 1987–2020	4
Legal Reactivity: Correctional Health Care Certifications as Responses to Litigation	4
The Effect of Deliberation on Jurors’ Attitudes toward Jury Service in Criminal Cases	4
Legal Threats and the Emergence of Legal Mobilization: Conservative Mobilization in Colombia	4

Fighting Words: Pro-Choice Cause Lawyering, Legal-Framing Innovations, and Hostile Political-Legal Contexts	4
Finding the “Humanity” in Human Rights: LGBT Activists and the Vernacularization of Human Rights in Hong Kong	4
Fracturing the “Exception”: The Legal Sanctioning of Violent Interrogation Methods in Israel since 1987	4
Employers as Subjects of the Immigration State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrant Workers	4
Body Count Politics: Quantification, Secrecy, and Capital Punishment in China	3
Just Hindus	3
What’s in a Name: How US Supreme Court Justices Shape Law and Policy in the Lower Courts	3
Translating Modern Slavery into Management Practice	3
Abolition: A New Paradigm for Reform	3
Self-Proclaimed Human Rights Heroes: The Professional Project of Israeli Military Judges	3
Standardizing States of Emergency: Fragmented Legitimacy of Model Public Health Lawmaking	3
The Sources of Resilience of International Human Rights Courts: The Case of the Inter-American System	3
Change Is in the Air: The Smell of Marijuana, after Legalization	3
Diplomats in Robes: Judicial Career Paths and Free Speech Decision-Making at the European Court of Human Rights	3
Interregna: Time, Law, and Resistance	3
Legal Doctrine and Judicial Review of Eminent Domain in China	3
Everyday Lawmaking in International Human Rights Law: Insights from the Inclusion of Domestic Violence in the Prohibition of Torture	3
Home-State Interest, Nationalism, and the Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court	3
Money As Justice: Work-Related Deaths, Victim Workers’ Families, and Injustice in Turkey	2
“Going Out” and Going In-House: Chinese Multinationals’ Internal Legal Capacity in the United States	2
Dwindling Professional Authority: Legal Elites and the Division of Governmental Labor in Chile, 1932–70	2
A Call out of Seir: The Meaning and Future of US Labor Law	2
Free Expression and Judicial Power in Colombia, India, and South Africa	2
Claiming Religious Freedom at the European Court of Human Rights: Socio-Legal Field Effects on Legal Mobilization	2
Persistence Despite Change: The Academic Gender Gap in Australian Law Schools	2
Rethinking Sanctuary: The Origins of Non-Cooperation Policies in Social Welfare Agencies	2
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections	2
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration	2
Counterpedagogy, Sovereignty, and Migration at the European Court of Human Rights	2
Authentic Compliance with a Symbolic Legal Standard? How Critical Race Theory Can Change Institutionalist Studies on Diversity in the Workplace	2
“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar	2
I Come before You a Changed Man: “Insight,” Compliance, and Refurbishing Penal Practice in California	2
Condominium to the Country: The Sprawl of Ownership within Private Local Government in British Columbia	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
Developing a Public Interest Response to State-Orchestrated Corruption	2
Exploring a Craft Learning Model for Reviewing Patrol Officer Decision-Making in Encounters with the Public	2
Religious Exemption, LGBT Rights, and the Social Construction of Harm and Freedom	1
Saying What the Law Is	1
The Differential Use of Litigation by NGOs: A Case Study on Antidiscrimination Legal Mobilization in Belgium	1
Prison Disproportion in Democracies: A Comparative Analysis	1
Torture in Thailand at the Limits of Law	1
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship	1
The Datafication of Law: How Technology Encodes Carceral Power and Affects Judicial Practice in the United States	1
“It Is Here We Are Loved”: Rural Place Attachment in Active Judging and Access to Justice	1
Bad Queers: LGBTQ People and the Carceral State in Modern America	1
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe	1
From Global Interventionism to Domestic Police Militarization: The Transnational Routes of American Policing	1
Strategic Adaptation in a Crisis: Treatment Court Responses to COVID-19	1
Lawfare and Security Labor: Subjectification and Subjugation of Police Workers in India	1

The Cyclical Nature of Poverty: Evicting the Poor	1
The Judge as a Negotiator: Claims Negotiating and Inequalities in China’s Judicial Mediation	1
The Family Friendliness That Wasn’t: Access, but Not Progress, for Women in the Czech Judiciary	1
Appointed or Elected: How Justices on Elected State Supreme Courts Are Actually Selected	1
The Logic of NIMBYism: Class, Race, and Stigma in the Making of California’s Legal Cannabis Market	1
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-2020	1
Order in the Bazaar: The Transformation of Non-state Law in Afghanistan’s Premier Money Exchange Market	1
Between Human Rights and Civil Society: The Case of Israel’s Apartheid Enablers	1
Spies, Lies, Trials, and Trolls: Political Lawyering against Disinformation and State Surveillance in Russia	1
Thinking Holistically About Procedural Justice in Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Case Study of the German Federal Ombudsman Scheme	1
Property and the Obligation to Support the Conditions of Human Flourishing	1
Liberal Policies, Punitive Effects: The Politics of Enforcement Discretion on the US-Mexico Border	1
The Conflicting Uses of Prison Visitation in Mandate Palestine	1
Contracting for Terroir in Sake	1
Rural Social Safety Nets for Migrant Farmworkers in Michigan, 1942–1971	1
Case Sensitive: Lawyers and the Formation of Legal Arguments in Tanzania	1
Property Rights: (Probabilistically) Necessary or Sufficient for Economic Development in China and Beyond?	1
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls	1
From Foreign Text to Local Meaning: The Politics of Religious Exclusion in Transnational Constitutional Borrowing	1
Book Notes	1
Broadening the Lens of Procedural Justice Beyond the Courtroom: A Case Study of Legal Financial Obligations in the Juvenile Court	1
The New Politics of Judicial Appointments in Southern Africa	1
Political Divide, Weak Property Rights, and Infrastructure Provision: An Empirical Examination of Takings Decisions in Jerusalem	1
Divorced from Citizenship: Palestinian-Christian Women between the Church and the Jewish State	1
The Case for Religious Constitutions: Comparative Constitutional Law among Buddhists and Other Religious Groups	1
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts	1
The Search for an Anchor: Living Constitutionalism from the Progressives to Trump	1
Prefigurative Legality	1
The Possibility of Rights Claims-Making in Court: Looking Back on Twenty-Five Years of Social Rights Constitutionalism in South Africa	1
“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	1
Competing Allies: Legal Pluralism, and Gendered Agency in Mumbai’sShariaCourts	1
Progressive Law, Activism, and Lawyering in an Age of Preemption	1
Administering New Anti-Bullying Law: The Organizational Field and School Variation During Initial Implementation	1
Altruism at Work: An Integrated Approach to Voluntary Service among Private Practice Lawyers	1
Rights Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Belonging: An Empirical Inquiry into the Israeli Case	1