OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Law & Literature 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
Censoring Kuli Pratha in British India	3
Avant-Garde Literature and the Ground of Rights	2
Legal Cultures in the Age of Goethe: An Introduction	2
Bentham, Iser, and the Necessity of Fiction	2
The Drover’s Wife, the Legend of Molly Johnson : Leah Purcell’s Reclaiming of a Colonial Fetish	2
Vortext	1
Getting Legal Reason to Speak for Itself: The Legal Form of the Gutachten and Its Affordances	1
Ian Ward, the Play of Law in Modern British Theatre	1
The Mothers of Us All : Extracts, with Comments, from the “Yellow Catalogue” Published by the Milan Women’s Bookstore – Paper No. 2: From Novels to the Figures, Themes a	1
A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema: Superheroes, Science Fictions and Fantasies of Modern Law	1
Neocolonial Treks: Sexual Tourism and Dancefloor as Transactional Space	1
The Tigers of Curzon Street	1
The Mind Behind Modern Legal Thought: An Interview with Professor Peter Goodrich	1
Emblems Performing Law	1
Libertines and the Law: Subversive Authors and Criminal Justice in Early Seventeenth-Century France	1
Into One’s Own Hands: The Shape of Justice in China’s Rust Belt	1
Stephanie Elsky, Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature	1
Portrait and Mugshot: Metonymical Foundation of Photographic Genres	0
Toward Creative Reciprocity in Legal History and Literature ^#	0
Disrupting Undocumentation: Municipal ID Cards against Passport Fetishism	0
The Art of Complicity	0
Accepting or Transgressing the Failure: Derrida and Agamben on Kafka’s Before the Law	0
Property, Propriety, and Publicity: A Different Look at Pope v. Curll (1741)	0
On Paradox: The Claims of Theory	0
Derring Literarity: The Case of Negative Comparative Law	0

What’s in a Name? Legal Fictions and Philosophical Fictionalism	0
“For an Anne Bert Law”: Narratives, Advocacy, and the Legalization of Assisted Dying in France	0
Adoption Archives: Documents, Subjecthood, and the Possibility of Justice	0
Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus	0
“Oracles of the Law:” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s Legal Futurism	0
The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes	0
The Extravagant Community of Love	0
Feudal Scots Law and the Theory of the Historical Novel Genre	0
The sentimental life of international law: literature, language, and longing in world politics *The sentimental life of international law: literature, language, and lon*	0
The Mothers of Us All: Extracts, with comments, from the ‘Yellow Catalogue’ published by the Milan Women’s Bookstore	0
Literature as Legal History: Understanding the Colonial Roots of the Nigerian Police Force	0
Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police	0
Tragic Staging as Critique in the War Crimes Tribunal: The Suicide of Slobodan Praljak	0
Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene	0
Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization *Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization* , by Ste	0
The Confluence of Rhetoric and Emotion: How the History of Rhetoric Illuminates the Theoretical Importance of Emotion	0
Legal Academics as the Civic Priests of the Trickster Law	0
Navigating the Pitfalls of Counterfactuality: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legal Fictions	0
Introduction: Law, Literature, and the World	0
Public Order, Human Dignity, and the Child’s Best Interests: The Legal Dilemma of Surrogacy in Mo Yan’s Frog	0
Mikhaïl Bakhtin and International Refugee Law: A Dialogic Approach to Treaty Negotiations and Cross-Cultural Legal Hearings	0
Maksymilian Del Mar, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication	0
Nothing But the Fictions	0
The Emperor Augustus and Narratives of Legal Origin	0
“Land[s] beyond the White World”: (Re)imagining the International through Fiction	0
Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics	0
Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the Death Penalty	0
A Court in the Backlands: A Nomadic Justice in Brazilian Literature	0
We Make Each Other Beautiful: Art, Activism, and the Law	0
From Plucking to Purgation: Negative Transcendence in Shakespeare’s Political Drama	0
Annie Ernaux, Dobbs , and the Right to Tell Abortion Stories	0
Hydrojustice	0
Cecily Shoots a Rhinoceros: Big Game Hunting in British Somaliland and the 1900 Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish in Africa	0
Pleasures of Liminality	0
The Pretense Mode of Fiction. On the Practice of Fiction in Literary Studies	0
Shakespeare’s Strangers and English Law	0
Topology and Resistance Before the Law	0
Snark Staring Mad	0
Norval Morris, George Orwell, and Parables of the Law	0
The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law. Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production	0
“Speaking for the Dead to Protect the Living”: On Audre Lorde’s Biomythography, Law, Love, and Epistemic Violence in the Coronial Jurisdiction in the Kimberley	0
Correction	0
Speaking Out: Graphic Narrative as Alternative Jurisdiction	0
Complicity and the Colonial Force of Law in the Courtroom of Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies	0
Judgment *Judgment* , by Thomas Giddens, Abingdon: Routledge, 2022, 105 pp	0
Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination	0
The Legal Shadow of the Future Individual: A Shakesperean Symposium on Its Legal Person	0
The Rights of Nature: Their Conceptual Architecture	0
Speculative Constitutions in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle and the Rights of Nature	0
Aspect Perception in Philosophy, Fiction, and Law	0

Examining Mass Incarceration: Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room	0
On the True Men and Women, and Rebel Beetles: Utopia as Revolutionary Method and Practice in the Zapatista Tales of Subcomandante Marcos	0
Theaters of Pardoning	0
Free Indirect Discourse in Court: An Overview of Contemporary Jurisprudence in French Press Law	0
Corto Maltese and the Myriad Narratives of a More-than-Human Ocean: Revisiting Some of UNCLOS’ Ontological Assumptions	0
Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice	0
Introduction: Writing Inheritance in European Literature	0
The Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination	0
Editors’ Introduction: Fictions in Law, Literature, and Philosophy	0
Big Lies, Drag Shows, and Legal Fictions	0
The Union of India: Bodily Unity in Indian Law and Literature	0
From Clapham to Salina: Locating the Reasonable Man	0
On What Mutters: The Unnamable Subject of Practical Reason Finnis..Raz…Beckett..Cha	0
Stopping the Boats, Changing the Narrative: How the Migrant Refugee Bildungsroman Became a Ghost Story	0
The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice	0
The Right to Not Cut Our Owne Throats with Our Tongues: Proverbial Roots of the Fifth Amendment	0
Justice for Hamlet	0
Legal and Epic Alienation. Fritz Bauer’s Critique of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-1965) and Peter Weiss’s Dramatic Treatment of the Trial in the Investigation. Oratorio in 11 Can	0
Art Narrative as Normative Order	0
Judging Otherwise: Allegorizing Anti-Corruption Laws Through Mo Yan’s Crocodile	0
Traveling Outside of Time: Speculative Futurism and Environmental Justice	0
A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination	0
Reclaiming the Border Narrative: Refugee Children as Victim, Witness, and Agent in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive	0
The Reception of Vaihinger in Civil Law Scholarship	0
Planetary Gifts of Law and Literature	0
Qualities of Mercy: Capital Punishment and the Royal Prerogative in Familial Cases in the Chosŏn Records of Adjudications ( Simnir	0
From Novels to Figures, Themes and Strategies of a Political Practice PART II: Sexual Difference: An Occasion for Being	0
The Pasts of Law. Koselleck, Didi-Huberman and Sanmartino’s Cristo Velato in Naples	0
Orwell and Empire	0
Prisoner of the Book. The Living Constitution and Jorge Luis Borges’ Book of Sand	0
Performing Hepatitis C, Problematising “Cure”: The Construction of Hepatitis C (Cure) in Social Security and Migration Law	0
What Are You, Critical Legal Education? An Absurd Symphony	0
Law’s Will to Truth in The Sound of Things Falling	0
Tapestry of Tales: Women’s Collative Writings as Legal Storytelling	0
Eros against Law: Levinas and Erotic Interiority in Don Juan of Kolomea	0
Grains of Allowance: Liberty, Toleration, and Justice in George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer	0