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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise of digital constitutionalism in the European Union	37
The bound executive: Emergency powers during the pandemic	25
Mind the gap: Analyzing the divergence between constitutional text and constitutional reality	25
Poland and Hungary’s EU membership: On not confronting authoritarian governments	13
Comparative court-packing	12
The dual aversion of Chile’s constitution-making process	9
Is it time to abandon the theory of constituent power?	9
Judicial self-dealing and unconstitutional constitutional amendments in South Asia	7
Comparative political process theory	7
When and how to legally challenge economic globalization: A comment on the German Constitutional Court’s false promise	6
What constitutes compliance? Legislative responses to Constitutional Court decisions in Indonesia	6
On scholactivism in constitutional studies: Skeptical thoughts	5
The corruption of popular sovereignty	5
Small-c constitutional rights	5
The (mis)appropriation of human rights by the new global right: An introduction to the Symposium	4
Empirical research in comparative constitutional law: The cool kid on the block or all smoke and mirrors?	4
Understanding Chile’s constitution-making procedure	4
Constraining constituent conventions: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and the limits of pouvoir constituant	4
Constitutional amendment and public will formation: Deliberative mini-publics as a tool for consensus democracy	4
Calibrating the response to populism at the European Court of Human Rights	4
The personal is political: The feminist critique of liberalism and the challenge of right-wing populism	4
Crown-Presidentialism	4
Micronations: A lacuna in the law	3
Constructing a regional human rights legal order: The Inter-American Court, national courts, and judicial dialogue, 1988–2014	3
When the personal becomes political: Rethinking legal fatherhood	3

Para-constitutional engineering and federalism: Informal constitutional change through intergovernmental agreements	3
Ending the passport apartheid. The alternative to citizenship is no citizenship—A reply	3
Speaking truth to power: Legal scholars as survivors and witnesses of the Covid-19 maternal mortality in Brazil	3
Against settlement before the European Court of Human Rights	3
Feminist constitutionalism: Mapping a discourse in contestation	3
Judicial dialogue on data retention laws: A breakthrough for European constitutional courts?	3
A broad read of Ely: Political process theory for fragile democracies	2
Combatting malfunction or optimizing democracy? Lessons from Germany for a comparative political process theory	2
A view from the top: An examination of postfeminist sensibilities in women leaders’ constructions of success and responses to gender inequality in English football	2
Charting a way forward? Post-juristocracy, democratic decay, and the limits of Gardbaum’s valuable theory	2
Constitutional rigidity: The Mexican experiment	2
The interaction of human rights and religion in Africa’s sexuality politics	2
Whither judicial dialogue after convergence? Finding transnational public law in nomos-building	2
Constitutionalizing a perpetual transition: The “integration” of the Pashtun “tribal areas” in Pakistan	2
“It’s the political economy . . .!” A moment of truth for the eurozone and the EU	2
Entangled legalities in the postnational space	2
Constitutional pluralism and loyal opposition	2
A hole where Ely could be: Democracy and trust in South Africa	2
From hierarchical to panoptic control: The Chinese solution in monitoring judges	2
Elements for FIFA’s feminist transformation: The case for indicators on football and women’s rights	2
Shifting meanings of fazhi and China’s journey toward socialist rule of law	2
Ely in the world: The global legacy of Democracy and Distrust forty years on	2
Citizenship’s double-edged sword: Locating liberalism and illiberalism in citizenship	2
Constitutional rights, horizontality, and the Ugandan Constitution: An example of emerging norms and practices in Africa	2
Standing in the shadows of balancing: Proportionality and the necessity test	2
La idea de un derecho común en América Latina a la luz de sus críticasThe idea of a common law in Latin America in light of its critiques	2
Parliamentary sovereignty and the locus of constituent power in the United Kingdom	2
¿Límites de tratados internacionales al poder constituyente? Análisis del caso chilenoLimits of international treaties to the constituent power? Analysis of the Chilean case	2
(Un)constitutional change rooted in peace agreements	2
European integration: Quo vadis? A critical commentary on the PSPP judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court of May 5, 2020	1
Taking feminism beyond the state: FIFA as a transnational battleground for feminist legal critique	1
Political process review: Beyond distrust	1
The causes and consequences of a judicialized peace process in Colombia	1
Proportionality and procedure of monetary policy-making	1
Constitutional design for dynamic democracies: A framework for analysis	1
“Un-disabled by Covid”: Reflections of a (usually disabled) socio-legal scholar	1
Rousseau’s illiberal constitutionalism: Austerity, domination, and the circumstances of politics	1
Executive policy development and constitutional norms: Practice and perceptions	1
Republicanismo y ciudadanía armada en la Constitución Nacional argentina	1
Comparative political process theory	1
Securing cultural heritage? Understanding the law for our monuments, artworks, and archives today	1
From “democracy and distrust” to a contextually situated dialogic theory	1
The gatekeepers: Executive lawyers and the executive power in comparative constitutional law	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
Limited democracy and great distrust: John Hart Ely in Bolivia and Chile	1
Necessity or balancing: The protection of rights under different proportionality tests—Experimental evidence	1
The switch: The Israel High Court of Justice’s transition from occupation law to human rights law	1
A new comparative political process theory?	1
Antiabortion legal mobilization in Brazil: Human rights as a field of contention	1
Assessing the impact of Covid-19 on teaching and research: A Ghanaian perspective	1

Populismo constituyente, democracia y promesas incumplidas: el caso de la Convención Constitucional Chilena (2021-2022)Constituent populism, democracy, and failed promises: The case of the Chilean Con	1
Constitutional touchstones: Peace processes, federalism, and constitution-making in Myanmar	1
A double-edged sword: Constitutional dialogue confined	1
La evolución de la relación normativa entre el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos y los sistemas jurídicos nacionalesThe evolution of the normative relationship between the Interamerican Syste	1
Can the people exercise constituent power?	1
Translating the concept of “cultural identity” in public policies: Between the international and the national, and the tangible and intangible dimension	1
Football feminism: Global governance perspectives	1
The limited usefulness of the proportionality principle	1
How can constitutional review experiments fail? Lessons from the 1925 Chilean Constitution	1
Why Weiss? The I•CON symposium: Preface	1
Secession from and secession within the European Union: Toward a holistic theory of secession	1
The myth of populist constitutionalism in Hungary and Poland: Populist or authoritarian constitutionalism?	1
“Rule of law” with Chinese characteristics: Evolution and manipulation	1
Judicial amendment of the constitution	1
Ely in New Zealand	1
Rawls and right-wing populism— A qualified defense of the former: A reply to Gila Stopler	1
The abortion jurisprudence in Brazil: An analysis of ADPF 54 from feminist equality-based perspectives	1
Dialogue and distrust: John Hart Ely and the Canadian Charter	1
El proceso constituyente de Bachelet en Chile (2015-2018): razones de un fracaso (previsible)Bachelet’s constitution-making process in Chile (2015-2018): reasons for a (foreseeable) failure	1
What would a pluralist institutional approach to constitutional interpretation look like? Some methodological implications	1
Gender recognition at the crossroads: Four models and the compass of comparative law	1
Paridad de género y representación. El caso mexicanoGender parity and representation. The Mexican case	1
Conventions and practical interpretation in Westminster-type constitutional systems	1
Gender identity in the era of mass incarceration: The cruel and unusual segregation of trans people in the United States	1
Conceptual realism and imperial nostalgia in Chinese legal historiography	1
Domestic courts as guarantors of international climate cooperation: Insights from the German Constitutional Court’s climate decision	1
Sobre fracaso constitucional, constitucionalismo transformador y utopismoOn constitutional failure, Transformative Constitutionalism, and Utopianism	1
A plea for proportionality: A reply to Yun-chien Chang and Xin Dai	1
Continuity and change in human rights appropriation: The case of Turkey	1
Rights-based constitutionalism and gender justice in Colombian women’s soccer	1
The sovereignty deficit: Afterword to the Foreword by Neil Walker	1
A core case for supermajority rules in constitutional adjudication	1
The mysterious meeting between Carl Schmitt and Josef Redlich	1
“Knowledge comes with responsibility”: Why academic ivory towerism can’t be the answer to legal scholactivism	1
A margin for the margin of appreciation: Deference in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	1
Route 66: Mutations of the internal market explored through the prism of citation networks	1
Federalism’s radical potential	1
The gender pay gap: How FIFA dropped the ball	1
Filing the world: Archives as cultural heritage and the power of remembering	1
Citizenship at a crossroad	1
Political process theory and institutional realism	1
Revolutions, real contradictions, and the method of resolving them: The relationship between the Court of Justice of the European Union and the German Federal Constitutional Court	1
The CJEU and EU (de-)constitutionalization: Unpacking jurisprudential responses	1
The case for supermajority requirements in referendums	1
Institutions that define the policymaking role of courts: A comparative analysis of the supreme courts of Scandinavia	1
Malleable monuments and comparative cultural property law: The Balbo monument between the United States and Italy	1
Conceptualizing the role of courts in peace processes	1
The constitutional quandary of social rights: Questions in times of the Polish illiberal turn	1
What establishment expresses	1
Las agencias reguladoras independientes y sus desafíos de legitimidad democrática: revisión de literatura y agenda para el derecho constitucional en Latinoamérica	1
Introducción: Los entes autónomos en el derecho constitucional latinoamericano	1
Huehue constitutionalism	1
Comparative political process theory: A rejoinder	1
Constricting rights, imagining identities: The impact on real lives—A rejoinder to Maja Sahadžić	1