OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ICON-International Journal of Constitutional 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Las agencias reguladoras independientes y sus desafíos de legitimidad democrática: revisión de literatura y agenda para el derecho constitucional en Latinoamérica	25
Gender, democracy, and the legal academy: Afterword to the Foreword by Gráinne de Búrca, Rosalind Dixon, and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy	21
Repensando los préstamos constitucionales: un análisis crítico del uso de materiales foráneos desde la experiencia argentina	13
The non-constitutionalization and avoidant constitutionalization of gender in Czechia and Slovakia	10
Dos ejes para pensar la tensión entre el sistema interamericano de derechos humanos y los sistemas constitucionales de la regiónTwo axes to consider the tension between the Inter-American System of Hu	10
Traditional values, family, homeschooling: The role of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church in transnational moral conservative networks and their efforts at reshaping human rights	9
Party constitutionalization in socialist regimes	8
The constitutional impact of rule-of-law spending conditionality	8
The myth of populist constitutionalism in Hungary and Poland: Populist or authoritarian constitutionalism?	8
¿Por qué era urgente que los jefes de Estado condenaran la elección fraudulenta que tuvo lugar en Venezuela en el año 2024?Why was it urgent that heads of state condemned the 2024 Venezuelan fraudulen	7
What would a pluralist institutional approach to constitutional interpretation look like? Some methodological implications	7
Jonathan Hafetz, Review of Lawrence Repeta. Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War	7
Control and paralysis? A context-sensitive analysis of objections to supermajorities in constitutional adjudication	6
Law, film, and trans identity in Hong Kong	6
The switch: The Israel High Court of Justice’s transition from occupation law to human rights law	6
A constitutional court’s survival (by any name)	5
La judicialización de la política y el control constitucional en modelos híbridos restringidos: el activismo judicial por “defecto” de ParaguayThe judicialization of politics and judicial review in re	5
Mariana Canales Subercaseaux, Review of Aileen Kavanagh. The Collaborative Constitution.	5
Constitucionalismo transformador y derecho internacional de inversionesTransformative constitutionalism and international investment law	5
Tímea Drinóczi & Agnieszka Bień-Kacała. Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary: The Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of Law.	4
Chief justices and democratic resilience: Judicial leadership in times of constitutional crisis	4
Conventions and practical interpretation in Westminster-type constitutional systems	4
Taking global administrative law one step ahead: Online giants and the digital democratic sphere	4
Oran Doyle, Review of David S. Law (ed.). Constitutionalism in Context	4
Sanford Levinson, Review of Yasuo Hasebe, Towards a Normal Constitutional State: The Trajectory of Japanese Constitutionalism	4

The concept of coup d’état under stifling stress: Legal theory’s political-science–based response	4
Silvia Romboli, Review of Luigi Ferrajoli, Per una Costituzione della Terra. L’umanità al bivio	4
Constraining constituent conventions: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and the limits of pouvoir constituant	4
No higher law: The Uruguayan plebiscite of 1980 as a failed constituent moment	4
Oratorical leadership of chief justices in post-handover Hong Kong	4
Constitucionalismo fuerte y democracia deliberativa: Inconsistencias en Rawls, Dworkin, y AlexyStrong constitutionalism and deliberative democracy: Inconsistencies in Rawls, Dworkin, and Alexy	3
Appropriation and the rewriting of rights	3
Los terceros interesados ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos: una inclusión necesaria	3
Constitutional parasitism, camouflage, and pretense: Shaping citizenship through subterfuge	3
Revolutionary amnesia and the nature of prerogative power	3
Wen-Chen Chang, Kelley Loper, Mara Malagodi, & Ruth Rubio-Marin, eds. Gender, Sexuality and Constitutionalism in Asia	3
Mobilizing constitutional identity: Transformative constitutionalism and the threat of illiberalism in South Africa	3
Responsive judicial review and democracy: Examining Rosalind Dixon’s theory of judicial review	3
Vicente Aylwin Fernández, Review of Joshua Braver. We, the Mediated People: Popular Constitution-Making in Contemporary South America	3
Brian Christopher Jones, Review of Jack Beatson, Key Ideas in Law: The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers	3
Aileen Kavanagh. The Collaborative Constitution	3
Social and political dynamics in the feminization of judiciary	3
Las normas derogatorias constitucionales y su relación con la legislación preconstitucional	3
Maris Köpcke, Review of Leah Trueblood. Referendums as Representative Democracy	3
Institutions that define the policymaking role of courts: A comparative analysis of the supreme courts of Scandinavia	2
Is it time to abandon the theory of constituent power? A rejoinder	2
Constraints on the domestic separation of powers by supranational courts	2
Margaret K. Lewis, Review of Weitseng Chen & Hualing Fu (eds)., Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation, Development and Transition	2
Richard Johnson & Yuan Yi Zhu, eds., Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom	2
Luisa Gabriela Morales-Vega, Review of Elisa Ortega-Velázquez, El asilo como derecho en disputa en México: La raza y la clase como dispositivo de exclusión	2
The normative development of laws on asset preservation and confiscation: An examination of emerging best practices	2
Populism and the politics of constitutional (mis-)identity	2
Monitoring and compliance mechanisms as a diagnostic and prognostic tool of international anti-corruption cooperation: A data-driven study	2
Chaihark Hahm. The Constitution of South Korea: A Contextual Analysis	2
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, Review of Eugenie Merieau. Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	2
The constitutional quandary of social rights: Questions in times of the Polish illiberal turn	2
The ubiquity of unwritten constitutionalism	2
Tadić en Chapinero: Usos del Derecho Internacional en la justicia transicional en Colombia para la creación de “nuevos” crímenes de guerra Tadić in Chapinero: Uses of International Law in Transitional	2
Editorial: In this issue; Guest Editorial: Islands and ocean: Public law and international legal ordering in Oceania; Ten good reads	2
Invitamos a Francisca Pou Giménez, Investigadora del Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, a escribir una editorial.We invited Francisca Pou Giménez, Researcher at Instituto de Investigac	2
Costly ambiguities: Afterword to the Foreword by Nehal Bhuta	2
Honoring our peer reviewers	2
Of cheques and balances: Funding and separation of powers in international organizations law	2
Avances y retos del plurilingüismo en los poderes públicos del estado españolProgress and challenges of multilingualism in the public powers of the Spanish state	2
Yasuo Hasebe, Review of Linda Colley, The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World	1
Ching-Fu Lin, Review of Hans-W. Micklitz, Oreste Pollicino, Amnon Reichman, Andrea Simoncini, Giovanni Sartor, and Giovanni De Gregorio, eds. Constitutional Challenges in the Algorithmic Society	1
Constitutional identity, democracy, and illiberal change	1
What is constitutional ideology?	1
Erin Daly, Review of Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu, ed. Human Dignity in Asia: Dialogue Between Law and Culture	1
Democracy and constitutionalism in the Arab world	1
Han Zhu, Review of Neil J. Diamant. Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society	1
Itziar Gómez Fernández, Review of Rosa María Rodríguez Magda, El sexo en disputa. De la necesaria recuperación jurídica de un concepto.	1
Assessing the filters to tame the populist beast	1
Is it time to abandon the theory of Democracy? The problem with the people: Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo	1
The CJEU and EU (de-)constitutionalization: Unpacking jurisprudential responses	1

Dismantling democratic change in Asia: Modalities and weapons of choice	1
Too soon to know: Exploring the conditions of existence of the constituent power—Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo	1
Learning from the euro crisis: A new method of government for the European Union’s economic policy coordination after the pandemic	1
Constitutional democracy as fixed point? On interpretation and judicial representation-reinforcement	1
Gender and the legal academy	1
Pluralizing federalisms	1
Europe’s “independence wars”: A constitutional perspective—A reply to Antoine Vauchez	1
The role of courts in abortion decriminalization: The unmet potential of proportionality	1
Two cultures of justification in constitutional law	1
Theorizing about the executive in the modern state	1
Between two worlds: Personal reflections from Slovenia and Spain on the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Constituting the negative globality of fear	1
Fuentes normativas y desarrollo jurisprudencial del derecho humano al agua en América LatinaNormative sources and jurisprudential development of the human right to water in Latin America	1
Republicanismo y ciudadanía armada en la Constitución Nacional argentina	1
Human rights and corruption: Problems and potential of individualizing a systemic problem	1
Samuel E. Bagg. The Dispersion of Power. A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy	1
Raeesa Vakil, Review of Philipp Dann and Arun K. Thiruvengadam (eds). Democratic Constitutionalism in India and the European Union: Comparing the Law of Democracy in Continental Polities	1
The “constitutional court of China”? Setting the record straight	1
State-centered liberal constitutionalism: An underappreciated legacy of “China’s Constitutional Court”	1
Incapacitating, or something else? Unpacking Australian amendment culture in the First Nations Voice Referendum	1
A dialogical model of human rights adjudication	1
Regions and the European Union in times of crisis: A decline of the regional interest?	1
Tom Gerald Daly, Review of Mark Tushnet, The New Fourth Branch: Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy	1
Rachel Bayefsky. Dignity and Judicial Authority	1
Reflections on the thesis that (natural) social rights preceded the creation of the social (welfare) state: Afterword to the Foreword by Nehal Bhuta	1
Microcontextual considerations in ouster clause analysis: A comparative study of parallel trends in the United Kingdom and Singapore	1
Constitutional design preferences: An experimental approach	1
Julie C. Suk. After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It	1
In this issue; Guest Editorial: Unsexing scholarship? Towards better citation and citizenship practices in global public law	1
Matthew S.R. Palmer & Dean R. Knight. The Constitution of New Zealand: A Contextual Analysis	1
Matej Avbelj, Review of Cormac S. Mac Amhlaigh. New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory	1
Moeen Cheema. Courting Constitutionalism: The Politics of Public Law and Judicial Review in Pakistan	1
The interaction of human rights and religion in Africa’s sexuality politics	1
El proceso constituyente español de 1873: origen y fracaso de la República FederalThe Spanish constituent process of 1873: origin and failure of the Federal Republic	1
Rotating chief justices in a democracy under stress: The Brazilian Supremo Tribunal Federal under Bolsonaro	1
Introduction to the Symposium: Academic stories of Covid-19 and its unequal impacts	1
Secession from and secession within the European Union: Toward a holistic theory of secession	1