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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The constitutional impact of rule-of-law spending conditionality	35
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	30
Paridad de género y representación. El caso mexicanoGender parity and representation. The Mexican case	17
Elements for FIFA’s feminist transformation: The case for indicators on football and women’s rights	17
The European Union’s demoicratic legislature	15
Las agencias reguladoras independientes y sus desafíos de legitimidad democrática: revisión de literatura y agenda para el derecho constitucional en Latinoamérica	9
Indirect elections as a constitutional device of epistocracy	9
Rachael Walsh, Review of Hélène Landemore, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century	8
Constitutional review of negotiated international investment agreements: Strengths and shortcomings of the Colombian Constitutional Court’s approach	7
Repensando los préstamos constitucionales: un análisis crítico del uso de materiales foráneos desde la experiencia argentina	6
Gender, democracy, and the legal academy: Afterword to the Foreword by Gráinne de Búrca, Rosalind Dixon, and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy	6
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	5
¿Por qué I•CON publica un número en español?; Editorial invitada: Un matrimonio de conveniencia; Editorial invitada: La paz posible; En este númeroWhy is I•CON publishing an issue in Spanish?; Guest e	5
The switch: The Israel High Court of Justice’s transition from occupation law to human rights law	5
Shifting meanings of fazhi and China’s journey toward socialist rule of law	5
Control and paralysis? A context-sensitive analysis of objections to supermajorities in constitutional adjudication	4
Editorial: I•CON in Spanish—I•CON en Español; Brexit, the Irish Protocol, and the “Versailles Effect”; Cancelling Carl Schmitt?; Changes in the masthead; In this issue	4
Constitutional amendment and public will formation: Deliberative mini-publics as a tool for consensus democracy	4
The myth of populist constitutionalism in Hungary and Poland: Populist or authoritarian constitutionalism?	4
Angelo Jr Golia, Review of Mariano Croce and Marco Goldoni, The Legacy of Pluralism: The Continental Jurisprudence of Santi Romano, Carl Schmitt, and Costantino Mortati	3
Nationalism versus “identity pluralism”? Preserving and valorizing archeological heritage	3
Mariana Canales Subercaseaux, Review of Aileen Kavanagh. The Collaborative Constitution.	3
Constitucionalismo transformador y derecho internacional de inversionesTransformative constitutionalism and international investment law	3
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.	3
¿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	3

Jonathan Hafetz, Review of Lawrence Repeta. Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War	3
What would a pluralist institutional approach to constitutional interpretation look like? Some methodological implications	3
Oran Doyle, Review of David S. Law (ed.). Constitutionalism in Context	3
Constraining constituent conventions: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and the limits of pouvoir constituant	3
Empirical research in comparative constitutional law: The cool kid on the block or all smoke and mirrors?	3
Law, film, and trans identity in Hong Kong	3
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	3
Silvia Romboli, Review of Luigi Ferrajoli, Per una Costituzione della Terra. L’umanità al bivio	3
The concept of coup d’état under stifling stress: Legal theory’s political-science–based response	2
The personal is political: The feminist critique of liberalism and the challenge of right-wing populism	2
Conventions and practical interpretation in Westminster-type constitutional systems	2
The fatigue of multilateralism: A new hope for international law—Afterword to the Foreword by Karen Alter	2
Social and political dynamics in the feminization of judiciary	2
Agustín Grijalva y José Luis Castro. Reelección presidencial y Democracia	2
Taking global administrative law one step ahead: Online giants and the digital democratic sphere	2
A constitutional court’s survival (by any name)	2
Sanford Levinson, Review of Yasuo Hasebe, Towards a Normal Constitutional State: The Trajectory of Japanese Constitutionalism	2
No higher law: The Uruguayan plebiscite of 1980 as a failed constituent moment	2
Constitutional parasitism, camouflage, and pretense: Shaping citizenship through subterfuge	2
The normative development of laws on asset preservation and confiscation: An examination of emerging best practices	2
Gabriele Wadlig, Review of Gina Heathcote, Feminist Dialogues on International Law: Successes, Tensions, Futures	2
Constitucionalismo fuerte y democracia deliberativa: Inconsistencias en Rawls, Dworkin, y AlexyStrong constitutionalism and deliberative democracy: Inconsistencies in Rawls, Dworkin, and Alexy	2
Correction to: Tres desafíos de legitimidad del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos	2
Measurement and causal identification in constitutional law: A reply to Niels Petersen and Konstantin Chatziathanasiou	2
Brian Christopher Jones, Review of Jack Beatson, Key Ideas in Law: The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers	2
Revolutionary amnesia and the nature of prerogative power	2
Institutions that define the policymaking role of courts: A comparative analysis of the supreme courts of Scandinavia	2
Edward Willis, Review of Brian Christopher Jones, Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy: Challenging the Infatuation with Writtenness.	2
Appropriation and the rewriting of rights	2
Maria Moscati, Review of Alice Margaria, The Construction of Fatherhood. The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights	1
Republicanismo y ciudadanía armada en la Constitución Nacional argentina	1
Avances y retos del plurilingüismo en los poderes públicos del estado españolProgress and challenges of multilingualism in the public powers of the Spanish state	1
Theorizing about the executive in the modern state	1
Deborah Daich y Cecilia Varela (coords). Los Feminismos en la Encrucijada del Punitivismo	1
Too soon to know: Exploring the conditions of existence of the constituent power—Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo	1
¿Límites de tratados internacionales al poder constituyente? Análisis del caso chilenoLimits of international treaties to the constituent power? Analysis of the Chilean case	1
Europe’s “independence wars”: A constitutional perspective—A reply to Antoine Vauchez	1
The limited usefulness of the proportionality principle	1
Yasuo Hasebe, Review of Linda Colley, The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World	1
Katarzyna Krzyżanowska, Review of Ágúst Þór Árnason and Catherine Dupré, eds, Icelandic Constitutional Reform: People, Processes, Politics	1
Tom Gerald Daly, Review of Mark Tushnet, The New Fourth Branch: Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy	1
The ubiquity of unwritten constitutionalism	1
Is it time to abandon the theory of Democracy? The problem with the people: Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo	1
Matej Avbelj, Review of Cormac S. Mac Amhlaigh. New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory	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
Martin Belov (ed.). Courts, Politics and Constitutional Law: Judicialization of Politics and Politicization of the Judiciary	1
Vicente Aylwin Fernández, Review of Joshua Braver. We, the Mediated People: Popular Constitution-Making in Contemporary South America	1
Cost-benefit analysis in rights adjudication—An assessment in light of the proportionality debate: A reply to Yun-chien Chang and Xin Dai	1
Constitutional design preferences: An experimental approach	1
The constitutional quandary of social rights: Questions in times of the Polish illiberal turn	1

La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y la “conversación entre iguales”The Inter-American Human Rights Court and the “conversation among equals”	1
Margaret K. Lewis, Review of Weitseng Chen & Hualing Fu (eds)., Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation, Development and Transition	1
Learning from the euro crisis: A new method of government for the European Union’s economic policy coordination after the pandemic	1
Guest editorial: Liberal constitutionalism and postcolonialism in the South and beyond: On liberalism as an open source and the insights of decolonial critiques	1
Secession from and secession within the European Union: Toward a holistic theory of secession	1
Monitoring and compliance mechanisms as a diagnostic and prognostic tool of international anti-corruption cooperation: A data-driven study	1
Dismantling democratic change in Asia: Modalities and weapons of choice	1
Para-constitutional engineering and federalism: Informal constitutional change through intergovernmental agreements	1
The interaction of human rights and religion in Africa’s sexuality politics	1
Between two worlds: Personal reflections from Slovenia and Spain on the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Han Zhu, Review of Neil J. Diamant. Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society	1
Robert Poll, Review of Zaid Al-Ali, Arab Constitutionalism: The Coming Revolution	1
Los terceros interesados ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos: una inclusión necesaria	1
Constitutional identity, expressivism, and constitutional change through judicial interpretation: The Indonesian LGBT case as a case study	1
Is it time to abandon the theory of constituent power? A rejoinder	1
Reinforcing the binary and disciplining the subject: The constitutional right to gender recognition in the Italian case law	1
Constitutional scholars and scholactivism	1
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, Review of Eugenie Merieau. Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	1
State-centered liberal constitutionalism: An underappreciated legacy of “China’s Constitutional Court”	1
Crown-Presidentialism	1
In the Möbius strip of global economic law: Afterword to the Foreword by Karen Alter	1
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	1
A view from the top: An examination of postfeminist sensibilities in women leaders’ constructions of success and responses to gender inequality in English football	1
Editorial: In this issue; Guest Editorial: Islands and ocean: Public law and international legal ordering in Oceania; Ten good reads	1
Regions and the European Union in times of crisis: A decline of the regional interest?	1
La permanente necesidad de un mecanismo transparente de elección de miembros de la CIDH y la Corte IDHThe permanent need for a transparent mechanism for the election of the members of the IACHR and th	1
What is constitutional ideology?	1
Joelle Grogan, Review of Miguel Poiares Maduro and Paul W. Kahn, eds., Democracy in Times of Pandemic: Different Futures Imagined	1
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	1
Maris Köpcke, Review of Leah Trueblood. Referendums as Representative Democracy	1