OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Leiden Journal of International Law is 0. 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
Mandatory human rights due diligence laws in Europe: A mirage for rightsholders?	14
Tilting at windmills: Reparations and the International Criminal Court	9
The choice before us: International law or a ‘rules-based international order’?	9
Diffuse subjects and dispersed power: New materialist insights and cautionary lessons for international law	9
State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence	8
The international law of jurisdiction: A TWAIL perspective	5
Beyond rhetoric: Interrogating the Eurocentric critique of international criminal law’s selectivity in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine invasion	5
The inflation of human rights: A deconstruction	5
Greening the road: China’s low-carbon energy transition and international trade regulation	5
International investment law in support of the right to development?	4
Legal status of abiotic resources in outer space: Appropriability, ownership, and access	4
Gender and judging at the International Criminal Court: Lessons from ‘feminist judgment projects’	4
From migration crisis to migrants’ rights crisis: The centrality of sovereignty in the EU approach to the protection of migrants’ rights	3
International law: A discipline of ambition	3
From soft law to hard law in business and human rights and the challenge of corporate power	3
Due diligence as a secondary rule of general international law	3
Legal imagination and the thinking of the impossible	3
Canon-making in the history of international legal and political thought	3
Western centrism, contemporary international law, and international courts	3
How time matters in the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review: Humans, objects, and time creation	3
The 2022 Russian intervention in Ukraine: What is its impact on the interpretation of jus contra bellum?	3
Reception, context and canonicity: The demonization, normalization and eventual proliferation of G. W. F. Hegel in international relations	3
One rule for Them - Selectivity in international criminal law	2
The judicial assessment of states’ action on climate change mitigation	2
A game of cat and mouse: Human rights protection and the problem of corporate law and power	2

The hidden impacts of the ICC: An innovative assessment using Google data	2
You were bombed and now you have to pay for it: Questioning the positive obligations in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons	2
Revisiting Security Council action on terrorism: New threats; (a lot of) new law; same old problems?	2
The settlement of tax disputes by the International Court of Justice	2
Resistance to territorial and maritime delimitation judgments of the International Court of Justice and clashes with ‘territory clauses’ in the Constitutions of Latin American states	2
Investment treaties and national governance in India: Rearrangements, empowerment, and discipline	2
Fairness, equity, and justice in the Paris Agreement: Terms and operationalization of differentiation	2
Protecting concessionary rights: General principles and the making of international investment law	2
Mapping the ‘invisible college of international lawyers’ through obituaries	2
The implicit taxonomy of the equality jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee	2
Closing cases with open-source: Facilitating the use of user-generated open-source evidence in international criminal investigations through the creation of a standing investigative mechanism	2
Shaping new interregionalism: The EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement and beyond	2
An International Ombudsman to make non-governmental organizations more accountable? Too good to be true …	2
Regionalism as development: The Lomé Conventions I and II (1975–1985)	2
Weaponizing rescue: Law and the materiality of migration management in the Aegean	2
Secondary objectives of the European Central Bank and economic growth: A human rights perspective	2
Obligations erga omnes and the question of standing before the International Court of Justice	2
The matrix reloaded: Reconstructing the boundaries between (international) law and politics	2
The effects of international judges’ personal characteristics on their judging	1
In/on applied legal research: Pragmatic limits to the impact of peripheral international legal scholarship via policy papers	1
Litigation before the International Court of Justice during the pandemic	1
The actus reus of the crime of aggression	1
The global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines by the public-private partnership COVAX from a public-law perspective	1
The Polar Silk Road and the future governance of the Northern Sea Route	1
Legal justifications for gender parity on the bench of the International Court of Justice: An argument for evolutive interpretation of Article 9 of the ICJ Statute	1
Odile Ammann, Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law. Methods and Reasoning Based on the Swiss Example, Brill/Nijhoff, 2020, 383 pp, €127.00, ISBN 9789004409873	1
‘International Shanghai’ (1863–1931): Imperialism and private authority in the Global City	1
An archaeological look at ‘international custom as evidence of a general practice accepted as law’ and Article 38 of the World Court’s Statute	1
Might contain traces of Lotus: The limits of exclusive flag state jurisdiction in the Norstar and the Enrica Lexie cases	1
The ECtHR’s suitability test in national security cases: Two models for balancing human rights and national security	1
Imperialism through adjudication in Latin America	1
Fluctuating boundaries in a changing marine environment	1
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National climate litigation and the international rule of law	1
Out of sight, out of mind? The proliferation of space debris and international law	1
Sisyphus in robes: International law, legal interpretation and the absurd	1
Transnational networked authority	1
At war? Party status and the war in Ukraine	1
The reactive model of disaster regulation in international law and its shortcomings	1
The recognition of a right to be rescued at sea in international law	1
The situated and bounded rationality of international courts: A structuralist approach to international adjudicative practices	1
International order and racial capitalism: The standardization of ‘free labour’ exploitation in international law	1
Protection of LGBTQIA+ rights in armed conflict: How (and whether) to ‘queer’ the crime against humanity of persecution in international criminal law?	1
The powers of silence: Making sense of the non-definition of gender in international criminal law	1
The role of precedent in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: A constructive interpretation	1
Not all rights are created equal: A loss–gain frame of investor rights and human rights	1
Hardly predictable and yet an equitable solution: Delimitation by judicial process as an option for Greece and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean	1
‘Parity with all nations’: The ‘coolie’ trade and the quest for recognition by China and Japan	1
The challenges of long-delayed prosecutions in fighting impunity in Bangladesh	1
Science, epistemology and legitimacy in environmental disputes – The epistemically legitimate judicial argumentative space	1

The ambiguity of colonial international law: Three approaches to the Namibian Genocide	1
Informal instruments to impose human rights obligations on foreign investors: An emerging practice of legality?	1
Treaty rigidity and domestic democracy: Functions of and constitutional limits to democratic self-binding	1
Outer limits of the continental shelf beyond CLCS recommendations and Article 76(8) of UNCLOS: With reference to Japan’s Cabinet Order No. 302	1
On membership of the United Nations and the State of Palestine: A critical account	1
Diplomatic immunity ratione materiae, immunity ratione materiae of state officials, and state immunity: A comparative analysis	1
Does international law prohibit the facilitation of money laundering?	1
Designing for international law: The architecture of international organizations 1922–1952	1
The social field of international adjudication: Structures and practices of a conflictive professional universe	1
Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities	0
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Catharine Titi and Katia Fach Gómez (eds.), Mediation in International Commercial and Investment Disputes, Oxford University Press, 2019, 408 pp, £84.00, ISBN 9780198827955 doi: 10.1093/law/9780198827	0
Ableism in the college of international lawyers: On disabling differences in the professional field	0
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Francisco de Vitoria and the (geo)politics of canonization in Spain/America	0
Eradicating the exceptional: The role of territory in structuring international legal thought	0
Gender and the international judge: Towards a transformative equality approach	0
Exploiting the deep seabed for the benefit of humankind: A universal ideology for sustainable resource development or a false necessity?	0
Digital evidence and fair trial rights at the International Criminal Court	0
Between commodification and data protection: Regulatory models governing cross-border information transfers in regional trade agreements	0
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The rediscovery of the Roman jus gentium and the post 1945 international order	0
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Yuji Iwasawa, Domestic Application of International Law: Focusing on Direct Applicability, Brill \| Nijhoff, 2022, 314 pp, ISBN 9789004509863*	0
BinaryTech in motion: The sexgender in the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence	0
International legal scholarship and the making of a ‘scientific self’	0
The ICC and the situation in Afghanistan: A critical examination of the role of the Pre-Trial Chambers in the initiation of investigations proprio motu	0
The fragmentation of international investment and tax dispute settlement: A good idea?	0
Shai Dothan, International Judicial Review: When Should International Courts Intervene?, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 170pp, £85.00, ISBN 9781108488761	0
Beyond the res judicata doctrine: The nomomechanics of ICJ interpretation judgments	0
C. Schwöbel-Patel , Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 306pp, £85.00, ISBN 9781108482752 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781	0
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Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis, Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace, Yale University Press, 2020, 288 pp, $28.00, ISBN:	0
Delimitation methodology for the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles: Three-stage approach as a way forward?	0
Seizing stateless smuggling vessels on the Mediterranean High Seas	0
Treaty amendment procedures: A typology from a survey of multilateral environmental agreements	0
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The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century	0
The objects and effects of non-party intervention before the International Court of Justice	0
Conceptualizing legal change as ‘norm-knitting’ through the example of the environmental human right	0
The chivalric pursuit of coherence in international law	0
Vicarius Christi: Extraterritoriality, pastoral power, and the critique of secular international law	0
Revisiting Jessup and the imperial origins of transnational law	0
An archaeological look at ‘international custom as evidence of a general practice accepted as law’ and Article 38 of the World Court’s Statute – ERRATUM	0
(Il)legitimacy of international intellectual property regime?	0
Doreen Lustig, Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Corporation 1886-1981, Oxford University Press, 2020, 256 pp., ISBN 9780198822097, £80.00	0
Chien-Huei Wu, Law and Politics on Export Restrictions: WTO and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN 9781108953566 (e-pub), doi:10.1017/9781108953566	0
Undesirable and unreturnable individuals: Rethinking the International Criminal Court’s human rights obligations towards detained witnesses	0
The fight for humane war	0
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Chinese perspectives on the ad bellum/in bello relationship and a cultural critique of the ad bellum/in bello separation in international humanitarian law	0
Between authority and (in)authenticity: How literary canons shaped jus gentium	0
An Australian glimpse of James Crawford	0
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Lâle Can, Michael Christopher Low, Kent F. Schull and Robert Zens (eds.), The Subjects of Ottoman International Law, Indiana University Press, 2020, 282pp, $25.00, ISBN 9780253056610	0
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Marie Aronsson-Storrier, Publicity in International Lawmaking: Covert Operations and the Use of Force, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 172 pp., £85.00, ISBN 9781108494380	0
On the punitive nature of ICC reparations orders	0
‘A Plea of Humanity to Law’: In Memoriam for Benjamin Berell Ferencz (1920–2023)	0
Conferences of the Parties beyond international environmental law: How COPs influence the content and implementation of their parent treaties	0
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Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback	0
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Chagos in the South Pacific? The principle of self-determination and the France-Vanuatu dispute over the Matthew and Hunter Islands	0
Inter-regime conversations: What barriers persist for individuals in international law?	0
Under the shadow of legality: A shadow hauntology on the legal construction of the Women, Peace and Security agenda	0
Inside the treaty interpreter’s mind: An experimental linguistic approach to international law	0
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Corina Heri, Responsive Human Rights: Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR, Hart Publishing, 2021, ISBN 9781509941230, £85.00 (hb), 264pp doi:10.5040/9781509941261	0
Seeing Santurbán through ISDS: A sociolegal case study of Eco Oro v. Colombia	0
Kent Roach , Remedies for Human Rights Violations – A Two Track Approach to Supra-National and National Law, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 632 pp., ISBN 978-1-108-41787-7, £99.99	0
The ‘ideal victim’: A cage for victims’ narratives at the International Criminal Court	0
The relevance of the African regional human rights system in the urban age	0
Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade: An unwavering quest for international justice and for the universalization and humanization of international law	0
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The legacy of Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade to contemporary international law	0
Divided governmental structure and state compliance with international human rights law: A reputation-based approach	0
Yuji Iwasawa, Domestic Application of International Law: Focusing on Direct Applicability, Brill \| Nijhoff, 2022, 314 pp, ISBN 9789004509863 – CORRIGENDUM	0
Eva Nanopoulos, The Juridification of Individual Sanctions and the Politics of EU Law, Hart, 2020, ISBN 9781509909797, £72.00 (hb)	0
Debating interpretation: On the road to Ithaca	0
Andrew Clapham, War, Oxford University Press, 2021, 624pp, £29.99 (pb)	0
An analysis of stagnation in multilateral law-making – and why the law of the sea has transcended the stagnation trend	0
Navigating transformations: Climate change and international law	0
Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner (eds.), Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp, £80.00	0
Private or public adjudication? Procedure, substance and legitimacy	0
Emmanuel H. D. De Groof and Micha Wiebusch , International Law and Transitional Governance: Critical Perspectives, Routledge, 2020, 165pp, IBSN 9780367178109, US$48.95	0
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The Hawija airstrike: Reverberating effects on civilians under international humanitarian law	0
The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice	0
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Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2021, 592pp, ISBN: 9780691148694, $39.95	0
Remembering Judge Cançado Trindade’s voice, faith, and integrity	0
Judicial Dissent at the International Criminal Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis	0
Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting	0
Between the utopian imaginaries of literature and international law: The question of the insurgent child in international legal discourse and Kris Montañez’s Youth	0
Characterization of the violence between Türkiye and the PKK	0
Anthony Carty , The Decay of International Law: A Reappraisal of the Limits of Legal Imagination in International Affairs, Manchester University Press, 2019, 216 pp, ISBN 9781526127914, £22.50	0
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Legal justifications for gender parity on the bench of the International Court of Justice: An argument for evolutive interpretation of Article 9 of the ICJ Statute – CORRIGENDUM	0
In someone else’s words: Judicial borrowing and the semantic authority of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights	0
Non-economic disciplines still take the back seat: The tale of conflict clauses in investment treaties	0
Tom Ginsburg, Democracies and International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 329pp, £29.99 (hb) doi: 10.1017/9781108914871	0
The nadir of vital interests: Hannah Arendt and the Franco-German Armistice 1940	0
The use of force against neutral ships outside territorial waters	0
James Crawford and the art of law	0
The formative international law studies of Judge Shi Jiuyong	0
Stability of maritime boundaries and the challenge of geographical change: A reply to Snjólaug Árnadóttir	0
China and international law: Two tales of an encounter	0
Global value chains, development and the long duree of trade and investment law	0
James Crawford AC SC FBA (Adelaide, 14 November 1948–The Hague, 31 May 2021)	0
Gaëtan Cliquennois , European Human Rights Justice and Privatisation: The Growing Influence of Foreign Private Funds, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 263 pp., ISBN 9781108497053, £85.00	0
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Unilateral declarations excluding bilateral relations under a multilateral treaty	0
Seeking victim-centred accountability for violence against persons with disabilities at the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Ukraine	0
The dark legacy of Nuremberg: Inhumane air warfare, judicial desuetudo and the demise of the principle of distinction in International Humanitarian Law	0
Prometheus caged: The exiling of Napoleon and the Law of Nations, 1814–1821	0
Social movements, reframing investment relations, and enhancing the application of human rights norms in international investment law	0
The Committee on the Rights of the Child and Article 12: Applying the Lundy model to treaty body recommendations	0
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Ukri Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making, Hart, 2021, 208pp, £80.00	0
Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial	0
Election hacking, the rule of sovereignty, and deductive reasoning in customary international law	0
Erin Pobjie, Prohibited Force: The Meaning of ‘Use of Force’ in International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2024, Online ISBN: 9781009022897	0
Towards a unified approach to superior responsibility in international criminal law: Establishing the links between participation to the crime and the superior responsibility doctrine	0
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From treaty to custom: Shifting paths in the recent development of international humanitarian law	0
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Against impact	0
Coming to terms with the SDGs: A perspective from legal scholarship	0
Julien Chaisse , China’s International Investment Strategy: Bilateral, Regional, and Global Law and Policy, Oxford University Press, 2019, 560 pp, ISBN 9780198827450, $135.00	0
A coherence framework for fact-finding before the International Court of Justice	0
The ‘imbroglio’ of ecocide: A political economic analysis	0
New court, same division: The Bemba case as an illustration of the continued confusion regarding the command responsibility doctrine	0
Mapping interpretation by the International Criminal Court	0
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Mapping out due diligence in regional human rights law: Comparing case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	0
Emancipating human rights: Capitalism and the common good	0
Belén Olmos Giupponi, Trade Agreements, Investment Protection and Dispute Settlement in Latin America, Wolters Kluwer, 2019, 413 pp, ISBN 9789041182333, €205	0
Sondra Faccio, Indirect expropriation in international investment law. Between State regulatory powers and investor protection, Editoriale Scientifica, 2020, 346pp., €30.00, ISBN 978883918008	0
Deciphering l’esprit d’internationalité: The 1872 Alabama arbitration and the pacifist antithesis of modern international law profession	0
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Hayek’s dream: International investment law and the denigration of politics	0
Rethinking international law along with Amazonian ontologies: problematizing human-non-human divisions	0
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In search of Paulus Vladimiri: Canon, reception, and the (in)conceivability of an Eastern European ‘founding father’ of international law	0
Developments in Canada on business and human rights: One step forward two steps back	0
Secession, self-determination and territorial disagreements: Sovereignty claims in the contemporary South Pacific	0
Beyond the machinery metaphors: Towards a theory of international organizations as machines	0
International law from the outside: Insights from the Dutch Research Council (NWO)	0
Prologue to truth: Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappeared and the authority of international law	0
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Kai Ambos (ed.), Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Article-by-Article Commentary, Beck, Hart, and Nomos, 4th ed., 2022, 3,064 pp., ISBN 9781509944057, £475	0
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Jens Steffek, International Organizations as Technocratic Utopia, Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780192845573, 256pp, $100	0
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Provisional boundaries and alternative solutions to maritime delimitation	0
Social justice and the judicial interpretation of international equal protection law	0
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Explaining power and authority in international courts	0
International law in the minds: On the ideational basis of the making, the changing, and the unmaking of international law	0
In praise of multiplicity: Suspending the desire to change the world	0
Responses of international legal academia to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	0
Subsidiarity does not win cases: A mixed methods study of the relationship between margin of appreciation language and deference at the European Court of Human Rights	0