OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecclesiastical Law Journal 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Pre-Reformation Roman Canon Law in Post-Reformation English Ecclesiastical Law	3
The 2022 Revision of The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion	2
Re St Michael, Horton	1
Political Theology and Law Geminello Preterossi Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2023, Law and Politics: Continental Perspectives, 202 pp (hardback £96), ISBN: 9781138549821	1
The Church and Employment Law: A Comparative Analysis of the Legal Status of Clergy and Religious Workers John Duddington Routledge, 2023, 299 pp (hardback £125), ISBN: 978-0-367-55317-3	1
The Definition of an Archdeacon: Legal, Pastoral or Neither?	1
Response to ‘“Legalists and Moralists” in the Historic Portrayal of the Constitution of the Church of England’	1
Personnel Files, Confidentiality and the Right to Privacy	1
Re St Mary the Virgin, Stebbing	1
Unity in Christ: Bishops, Synodality, and Communion Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP with a foreword by Cardinal Mario Grech, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC, 2023, xi + 169 pp (p	1
Re Holy Trinity, Clapham	0
Re St Mary, Adderbury [2024] ECC Oxf 4	0
Editorial	0
A Handbook for Churchwardens and Parochial Church Councillors: New Revised Edition Timothy Briden and Kenneth MacMorran Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2023, 208 pp (paperback £14.99), ISBN: 978-1399409	0
General Synod of the Church of Ireland	0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Stevington	0
VIII: Thomas Sherlock (1678–1761)	0
Free election in the age of Erastianism: the case of R v The President and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral	0
The enduring impact of the Council of Nicaea	0
Voidable marriages	0
Gerald of Wales (c. 1146–1223): A Canonist Rediscovered	0
Anti-semitism and higher education: concerns and challenges	0
Re St Peter, Holy Trinity and All Saints, Dorchester	0
Sheila Cameron CBE KC (1934–2025)	0
Re St George, Unsworth	0

Re St Nicholas, Leicester	0
Synodal structures in the Roman Catholic diocese	0
Ecclesiastical Law Society Conference: ‘Accidents of Ecclesiastical Governance – Past, Present and Future?’	0
Re Bingham Cemetery	0
Reflections on a theory of law in the addresses of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I	0
General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada	0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church	0
Archbishop of Uganda v Joyce and Others	0
The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law John WitteJr and Rafael Domingo (editors) Oxford University Press, 2024, 899 pp (hardback £132.50), ISBN: 9780197606759	0
Conciliarity and dispersed authority from Nicaea to the Archbishops’ Council	0
Re St George, Newcastle	0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Weston Turville	0
Re St Michael, Twerton-on-Avon	0
Re St Lawrence, Eyam	0
February to May 2024	0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Woolmer Green	0
The Case of the Rustat Memorial – Does Duffield Pose all the Right Questions?	0
Unrepealed: why the proviso to Canon 113 of 1603 remains in force	0
Canon law and synodality: the nature of the parish in the Anglican Communion	0
The twenty-fourth Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon lawyers: canon law and confession	0
Re All Saints, Scotby	0
Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers	0
The Coronation Oath	0
What did the Nicene Creed say?	0
Re St Michael the Archangel, Warfield	0
ELJ volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
October 2023 to January 2024	0
Re St Michael, Langtoft	0
Re St Saviour, Nottingham	0
Religious Confession and Evidential Privilege in the 21st Century Edited by Mark Hill QC and Keith Thompson Connor Court Publishing, Cleveland, Australia, 2021, 320 pp (paperback A$40), ISBN: 978-1-92	0
Shared Burial Grounds	0
Re All Saints, Elston	0
The Canons of Nicaea and the canon law of the Church of England	0
Discovering Anglicanism – ecclesiology at Lambeth Conferences 1867–1998	0
Re an application to inter cremated remains	0
British Islam and English Law: A Classical Pluralist Perspective Patrick S Nash, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 308 pp (hardback £95), ISBN: 978-1-108-71360-3	0
The Visitation of Hereford Diocese in 1397 Edited by Ian Forrest and Christopher Whittick Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk, 2023, xli + 271pp (paperback £24.99), ISBN: 978-0-907239-87-1	0
Re Holy Trinity, Pleshey	0
Editorial	0
The Legal Legacy of the Reformation – Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law John Duddington (ed) Routledge, London, 2025, 302 pp (hardback £108) ISBN: 978-0-367-20908-7	0
Re St Leonard, Hythe	0
A Limited Episcopacy? Canon Law and the Ministry of the ‘Episcopal Assistant’ in the Anglican Communion	0
Liturgy, law and the Diocesan Advisory Committee	0
General Synod of the Church of England	0
The canons of Nicaea as part of the living canonical tradition of the Orthodox Church	0
ELJ volume 27 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
R (Bowen) v Kent County Council	0
Re St Nicholas, Radford	0
Christianity and Constitutionalism Edited by Nicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022, 494 pp (paperback £29.99), ISBN: 9780197587263	0
‘Juristecture’ and the regulation of normative space	0

Paganism Persisting: A History of European Paganism Since Antiquity Robin Douglas and Francis Young University of Exeter Press, 2024, 220 pp (hardback £90) ISBN: 978-1-804-13123-7	0
ELJ volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Re Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry	0
February to May 2023	0
Re Bingham Cemetery (No 2)	0
Re A redundant church bell	0
Editorial	0
Re Exhumation for forensic post-mortem examination	0
Re St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall	0
Re St Nicholas, Kingsey	0
Re Removal of a Commemorative Plaque for Safeguarding Reasons	0
The Development of the Canons: A Historical Study and Summary of the Church of England's Canons 1969 to 2020 Edited by Gerald Bray Latimer Publications, London, 2022, 214 pp (paperback £9.50), ISBN: 9	0
JR87, Application for Judicial Review	0
June to September 2025	0
Re St Michael, Wandsworth Common	0
Ecclesiastical Law, Clergy and Laity: A History of Legal Discipline and the Anglican Church Neil Patterson Routledge, London and New York, 2020, 194 pp (paperback £30), ISBN: 978-0-3675-8625-6	0
The Anglican Eucharist in Australia: The History, Theology and Liturgy of the Eucharist in the Anglican Church of Australia Brian Douglas Brill, Leiden, 2022, Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History 8	0
Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers	0
Episcopacy, law and government	0
Reflections on the Workings of General Synod	0
Re St Anne, Ings	0
Re St James, Southbroom	0
Ethics, Politics and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing Melissa Moschella Notre Dame University Press, 2025, xiii + 216 pp (hardback $40) ISBN: 978-0-268-20926-1	0
Pindo Mulla v Spain: is religion missing from the equation?	0
Response to ‘Reflections on the Workings of General Synod’	0
The Practice and Politics of Establishment	0
Newman, Canon Law, and Development: Quarrying Granite Rocks with Razors David P Long CUA Press, 2025, 340 pp (hardback $85) ISBN: 978-0813238920	0
Anti-Catholic/Jewish discrimination, appointing Church of England bishops, and the vexed case of Boris Johnson	0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church	0
Re Brookwood Cemetery	0
Law and Religion in a Secular Age Rafael Domingo, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC, 2023, xx + 332 pp (hardback £75.00), ISBN: 9780813237299	0
Pious Causes: The Boundaries between Charity Law and Ecclesiastical Law	0
Re St Mary, Shotesham	0
Re All Saints, Pontefract	0
Re All Saints, Rainford	0
All Mouth and No Trousers? Observations Arising from the Decision on Jurisdiction in Re Evans	0
McCalla v Lichfield Diocesan Board of Finance	0
Particular councils and episcopal conferences in the Roman Catholic Church: synodality between the Universal Church and the diocese	0
Breathing with two lungs – the metaphor revisited, refreshed, renewed	0
June–September 2022	0
Power and its exercise in the Vatican City State	0
Revisiting the Rustat case	0
October 2024 to January 2025	0
To Proclaim Afresh: Declaration and Oaths for Church of England MinistersThe Faith and Order Commission of the Church of England Church House Publishing, London, 2022, ix + 35 pp (paperback	0
October 2022 to January 2023	0
Re St James, Piccadilly	0
Move over Lyndwood: the York Provinciale	0
The King and the Law of the Church of England	0
Ralph Lever (c. 1530–1585)	0
Re the Church of the Wisdom of God, Lower Kingswood	0
Synodally led and episcopally governed? Synodality at the universal level in the Roman Catholic Church	0
ELJ volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Governing Body of the Church in Wales	0
ELJ volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Reconciling Theology Paul Avis SCM Press, London, 2022, xiv+260 pp (paperback £30), ISBN: 978-0-334-06138-0	0
ELJ volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Canon law, ecumenism, and synodality	0
ELJ volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
The Peculiar Case of a Royal Peculiar: A Problem of Faculty at the Tower of London	0
Christianity and Global Law Edited by Rafael Domingo and John Witte Jr Routledge, Oxford, 2020, xiii + 429 pp (hardback £104), ISBN: 978-0-367-85816-2	0
Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500–1700 K. J. Kesselring and Tim Stretton Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022, 195 pp (hardback £70), ISBN: 9780192849953	0
Metropolitan Pavlos Menevissoglou (1935–2022)	0
VI: Francis Mason (1566/7–1621)	0
Re St Andrew, Horbling	0
Re All Saints, Isley Walton	0
ELJ volume 28 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Women and the Anglican Church Congress 1861–1938: Space, Place and Agency Sue Anderson-Faithful and Catherine Holloway Bloomsbury, London, 2023, xi + 259 pp (hardback £85), ISBN: 9781350324183	0
General Synod of the Church of Ireland	0
Re St Mary, Boxford	0
ELJ volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Re St Luke, Chelsea [2024] ECC Lon 3	0
Re All Saints, Spring Park Parochial Church Council v Church Commissioners	0
February to May 2025	0
Re St Anselm's Church, Kennington Cross	0
The law of liturgy: a theological context	0
Re St Mary, Stalbridge [2024] ECC Sal 1 & 2	0
Re St Bartholomew, Lower Sapey [2024] ECC Wor 3	0
The Language of Canon Law Judith Hahn Oxford University Press, New York, 2023, 248 pp (hardback £64), ISBN: 9780197674246	0
Religious rights and freedom of speech	0
Re St Leonard, Hythe	0

Re Chapel of King's College of Our Lady and St Nicholas, Cambridge	0
Re the exhumation of a baby	0
Re Rev Julian Blakely	0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Dedham	0
Re Lambeth Cemetery	0
Anglican Confirmation 1820–1945: From ‘Renewing the Baptismal Covenant’ to ‘The Sacramental Principle’ Phillip Tovey Routledge, 2024, 206 pp (hardback £135), ISBN: 978-1-032-66097-4	0
The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent Edited by Nelson H. Minnich Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023, xv + 351 pp (hardback £89.99), ISBN: 9781108590280	0
ELJ volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
ELJ volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
A History of Pew Renting in the Church of England J C Bennett Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, 237 pp (hardback £120), ISBN: 978-3-031-54426-2	0
Re St Michael le Belfrey, York	0
Re St Mary & All Saints, Willingham	0
Re All Saints, Darton	0
All Roads Lead to New Rome: The Canonical Origins and Status of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Ukraine	0
An exceptional burial in a closed churchyard: St Mary and St Eanswythe, Folkestone	0
Governing Body of the Church in Wales	0
Making Your Church Sustainable: A Practical Guide to Getting to Net Zero Nigel Walter Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2024, 126 pp (paperback £14.99) ISBN 978-1-78622-497-2	0
Catholic synodality: episcopacy, clergy, laity	0
Peacemaking and the Canon Law of the Catholic Church Charles J Reid Brill, 2023, 247pp (paperback EUR 70.00), ISBN: 978-90-04-68144-6	0
Re Tuxford War Memorial	0
Safeguarding and the law	0
ELJ volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Pelsall	0
Re Streatham Cemetery	0
The relevance of the Nicene canons for clergy discipline: past, present and future	0
Re St Paul, North Shore, Blackpool	0
Response to ‘Safeguarding and the law’	0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Berwick	0
ELJ volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
The Chancery Court of York: a forgotten jurisdiction ‘particularly circumstanced’?	0
Re St Mary, Uggeshall	0
Re St Nicholas, Leicester	0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Ashwell	0
Juridical ecumenism and the Canons of Nicaea: comparing the Nicene Canons (325) and the Statement of Principles of Christian Law (2016)	0
Re St Bartholomew, Orford	0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland	0
When a doctrine is not a doctrine: understating the intersection of civil and canon law and the ‘doctrine’ of marriage in the Anglican Church of Australia	0
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association v Scottish Event Campus Ltd	0
Bishop Roger Herft: The Determination of the Episcopal Standards Board of the Anglican Church of Australia	0
Synodal structures in the Roman Catholic parish	0
‘Legalists and Moralists’ in the Historic Portrayal of the Constitution of the Church of England	0
Theology and the Enlightenment: A Critical Enquiry into Enlightenment Theology and its Reception Paul Avis T & T Clark, London, 2023, xi + 402 pp (paperback £28.99), ISBN: 9780567705648	0
ELJ volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Re St John the Baptist, Tisbury	0
Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties John Witte Jr Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019, xxii + 434 pp (paperback £28), ISBN: 978-1-316-63612-1	0
The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea Young Richard Kim (ed.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021, 424 pp (paperback £30.99), ISBN: 978-1-108-44811-6	0
Synodality at the local level – diocesan synods in Anglican canon law	0
What Does the Future Hold for Freedom of Religion and Belief?	0
KS (Thailand) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	0
Strasbourg, Russia and the Right to Same-Sex Marriage	0
ELJ volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Re St Mary, East Molesey	0
The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law Edited by Anders Winroth and John C Wei Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2022, xx + 617 pp (hardback £140), ISBN 978-1-107-02504-2	0
Beyond Establishment: Resetting Church–State Relations in England Jonathan Chaplin SCM Press, London, 2022, 220 pp (paperback £25), ISBN: 978-0-334-06173-1	0
Re St Paul, Caton-with-Littledale	0
The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible Bruce Wells (ed) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024, 386 pp (paperback £22.99) ISBN: 978-1-108-72566-8	0
Re St Peter, Egmond	0
The Monarch, the common witness of the Church, and the godly constitution of the State	0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Morpeth	0
Anderlecht Christian Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses & Others v Belgium	0
Devises of advowsons to trustees	0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland	0
Re St Leonard, Hythe	0
Re Holy Rood, Edwalton	0
Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy: The Legacy of the Great Jurists Edited by Orazio Condorelli and Rafael Domingo Routledge, London and New York, 2021, xiii + 468 pp (hardback £120), ISBN: 978-	0
February–May 2022	0
Re St Christopher, Ellistown	0
Re Holy Trinity and St Jude, Halifax	0
Synodality: the regional level in the Anglican Communion	0
ELJ volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Islam, Religious Liberty and Constitutionalism in Europe Mark HillKC and Lina Papadopoulou (eds) Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2024, 281 pp (hardback £95) ISBN: 978-1-5099-6695-0	0
The Twenty-Third Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers: Canon Law and Synodality	0
Re St Nicholas, Tackley	0
R (TTT) v Michaela Community Schools Trust	0
Re St James, Sutton Cheney	0
The Legal History of the Church of England: From the Reformation to the Present Norman Doe and Stephen Coleman (eds) Hart/Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2024, xii + 268 pp (hardback £90), ISBN: 978-1-	0
ELJ volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
ELJ volume 27 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Sources of English Legal History: Public Law to 1750 Sir John Baker Oxford University Press, 2024, lii + 788 pp (hardback £150) ISBN: 978-0-19-954679-4	0
ELJ volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Re St Mary, Ingleton	0
Aston Cantlow v Wallbank: a twenty-year retrospective	0
ELJ volume 28 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Synodality at the universal level in the Anglican Communion	0
Church Law History Consortium	0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland	0
Reflections on the Workings of General Synod – CORRIGENDUM	0
June to September 2023	0
Reclaiming the Blessings of Religious Liberty: Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment	0
Governing Body of the Church in Wales	0
Re St Mary, Thame	0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church	0
The Ecclesiastical Law Society's 35th Annual Conference: Sacred Space	0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Berwick	0
Re Bognor Regis Town Cemetery	0