OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation is 2. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	19
Taxation, Lactation, and Validation: The Symbolic Power of Tax Law to Legitimize Breast Milk Expression	17
Symbolic Rule of Law Promotion	17
The Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia	16
Revealing the Hidden Influencers: Euro-Lawyers as Ghostwriters of European Legal Integration	14
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy	13
The Failed Idea of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History	13
Agency Entrenchment: Sociological Legitimacy in a Politically Contested Occupation	11
Public Participation, Group Inclusion, and the Durability of National Constitutions	10
From Taxi to Didi: Voice and Balancing in the Industrial Transition	10
Constituting Religious Conflict in a Multicultural State	9
Law and the Political Discourse of Skill	9
International Book Essay Section	9
African Constitutionalism: Between Power, Persuasion, and Irrelevance?	8
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections	8
Subduing Asylum-Seekers’ Voices: Narrative Genres and the Impossibility of Credibility Tests During Refugee Status Determination Hearings	8
The Atrato River as a Bearer and Co-creator of Rights: Unveiling Black People’s Legal Mobilization Processes in Colombia	8
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	8
Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices	8
State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice	8
Business Courts as Loci of Privilege: The Business Judgment Rule Abroad	7
How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law	7
“Pimping in the Non-Traditional Sense”: How Police Discretion and Abuse Allowed Authorities to Benefit from the Labor of Sex Workers in Late-1970s and Early-1980s Boston	7
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-2020	7
Property Markers and the Hassle of Leniency: Building Code Enforcement in the Courtroom	6

The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy	6
State-Enabled Killing of Same-Sex-Attracted People: A Legal Pluralist Account	6
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	6
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment	6
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims	6
Marginalized Identity and Active Resistance: Milwaukee Socialists and German-Americans During World War I	6
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession	5
Threat to Family Stability or Social Stability? Domestic Violence Protection Orders in Two Chinese Courts	5
Book Notes	5
Book Notes	5
Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality	5
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe	5
“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	5
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	5
Remembering Internet Openness: From the Information Age to the Disinformation Era	5
Judging Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice	5
India’s Quotidian Constitution	5
The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”	5
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining “Community” in Participatory Research	4
Preference or Penalty? The Law and Employers’ Diverging Hiring Intentions of Latino Immigrants	4
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline	4
Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?	4
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship	4
Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox	4
International Book Essay Section	4
Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance	4
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan	4
Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives	4
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts	4
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture: Reimagining the Implications and Meanings of Black Litigiousness in Slavery and Freedom	3
Court Watching’s Promise: A Preliminary Survey	3
Ethnographies of Counterterrorism Trials in India	3
Book Notes	3
Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials	3
LSI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism: Seeking Justice for Witchcraft Harms in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	3
Constitutional Roots of Judicial Populism in India	3
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy	3
Toward a Sociology of International Law: John Hagan and Beyond	3
Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service	3
Authoritarian Legacies in Law and Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Turkey’s Specially Authorized Courts	3
Book Notes	3
International Book Essay Section	3
Is White-Collar Crime White? Racialization in the National Press Coverage of White-Collar Crime from 1950 to 2010	3
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration	3
The Judge Is “No Snitch”: A Progressive Era Collision between Juvenile Justice and Criminal Law	3
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3

The Justice Gap for Unaccompanied Children in US Immigration Court: Rurality, Resources, and Client Characteristics as Determinants of Access to Counsel	2
How the Public Became the Caller: The Emergence of Reactive Policing, 1880–1970	2
International Book Essay Section	2
The Anthropology of Legal Form: Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Transnational Law	2
International Book Essay Section	2
Caring Like a State: Publicizing Family Caregiving through Medicalization	2
“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar	2
Revolving Doors: Social Dimensions of Law Firm Culture and Pathways out of Firms	2
Navigating Codified Gender Inequality: Drivers of Legal Practice in Iranian Family Lawyers’ Approaches to Divorce	2
Book Notes	2
Prefigurative Legality	2
Reparations, But for What? Presenting a New Approach to Coding Reparations	2
Diverse Disconnectedness: Homophily, Social Capital Inequality, and Student Experiences in Law School	2
Democracies and Non-Democracies: The Use of International Law and Institutions	2
Measures of Justice: A Symposium in Honor of Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)	2
Rethinking Europe’s Margins: Between Fortress Europe and Its Invisibilized Internal Others	2
New Approaches to Socio-legal Writing: Locating Sovereignty Between the State and Society in India	2
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2