OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leiden Journal of International Law 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
Mandatory human rights due diligence laws in Europe: A mirage for rightsholders?	14
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
Tilting at windmills: Reparations and the International Criminal Court	9
State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence	8
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
The international law of jurisdiction: A TWAIL perspective	5
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
International investment law in support of the right to development?	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
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
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
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
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
‘International Shanghai’ (1863–1931): Imperialism and private authority in the Global City	1
The ECtHR’s suitability test in national security cases: Two models for balancing human rights and national security	1
Might contain traces of Lotus: The limits of exclusive flag state jurisdiction in the Norstar and the Enrica Lexie cases	1
Fluctuating boundaries in a changing marine environment	1
Imperialism through adjudication in Latin America	1
LJL volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
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
International order and racial capitalism: The standardization of ‘free labour’ exploitation in international law	1
The situated and bounded rationality of international courts: A structuralist approach to international adjudicative practices	1
The powers of silence: Making sense of the non-definition of gender in international criminal 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
Not all rights are created equal: A loss–gain frame of investor rights and human rights	1
The role of precedent in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: A constructive interpretation	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
Does international law prohibit the facilitation of money laundering?	1
Diplomatic immunity ratione materiae, immunity ratione materiae of state officials, and state immunity: A comparative analysis	1
The social field of international adjudication: Structures and practices of a conflictive professional universe	1
Designing for international law: The architecture of international organizations 1922–1952	1
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