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Papers

(The median citation count of Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Enforcement of a Formal Conception of the Rule of Law as a Potential Way Forward to Address Backsliding: Hungary as a Case Study	48
The Rule of Law as a Constitutional Mandate for the EU	25
Was There a Rule of Law in Early Modern Amsterdam? Mercantile Customary Law as a Test	21
It Never Rains but it Pours. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal Declares the European Convention on Human Rights Unconstitutional	12
Chile’s New Constitution: What Right to Health?	12
The Court of Justice of the European Union in the Case Law of the Polish Constitutional Court: The Current Breakdown in View of Polish Constitutional Jurisprudence Pre-2016	10
Political and Legal Authority in Flux	8
Reconstructing Legitimacy After Crisis: The Chilean Path to a New Constitution	6
The Challenge of Catalan Secessionism to the European Model of the Rule of Law	5
Spain as a Democratic State Governed by the Rule of Law and the Catalan Secessionist Process	4
Poland’s Rule of Law Breakdown: A Five-Year Assessment of EU’s (In)Action	4
Reclaiming Political Rights During a Rule of Law Crisis: The Role of the UN Human Rights Committee	4
The Rule of Law Conditionality Under Regulation No 2092/2020—Is it all About the Money?	4
How Political Narratives Affect the Self-Enforcing Nature of Interim Constitutions	4
From Liberal Democracy to Illiberal Populist Autocracy: Possible Reasons for Hungary’s Autocratization	4
Rule of Law and Political Representation	4
Correction: International and European Law and the Catalan Secession Process: Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democracy at Stake?	3
Preserving the Rule of Law Through Transnational Soft Law: The Cooperation and Verification Mechanism	3
To Live and to Learn: The EU Commission’s Failure to Recognise Rule of Law Deficiencies in Lithuania	3
Market-Engaging Institutions: The Rule of Law, Resilience and Responsiveness in an Era of Institutional Flux	3
Deepening Democracy? Promises and challenges of Chile’s Road to a New Constitution	3
Reinforcing Institutional Power: The Discourse of Normalcy in European Union Governance	3
Well-Tempered Power: ‘A Cultural Achievement of Universal Significance’	3
Reconciling Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union	3
Rule of Law Through the ‘Urban Turn’ in South African Constitutionalism	2

International and European Institutions and Catalan Nationalism	2
A Primacy of Privileges? Urban Constitutionalism, the Rule of Law and Late Medieval Bruges	2
Maritime Rule of Law: Some Preliminaries	2
The Council of Europe and the Catalan Secessionist Process: The Authoritarian Drift of the Radical Democratic Principle	2
Urban Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges	2
Achmea versus the Rule of Law: CJEU’s Dogmatic Dismissal of Investors’ Rights in Backsliding Member States of the European Union	2
How to Assess Rule-of-Law Violations in a State of Emergency? Towards a General Analytical Framework	2
Re-Imagining Customary Justice Systems: Interrogating Past Assumptions and Entertaining New Ones	1
Private Power, the Rule of Law and the European Union	1
Form and Flexibility: The Normalisation of ‘Magnitsky Sanctions’ in the Face of the Rule of Law	1
International and European Law and the Catalan Secession Process: Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democracy at Stake?	1
Reconciling the Theory and the Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union Measuring the Rule of Law	1
Rebuilding the Rule of Law in the Era of Democratic Backsliding	1
Confused Constitutionalism in Hungary—New Assessment Criteria for Recognising a Populist Constitutional Court	1
Purging the Judiciary After a Transition: Between a Rock and a Hard Place	1
Between a Rock-Hard Reality and a Pious Wish Place: Postema on the Rule of Law Beyond Borders	1
Crisis, Reinterpretation, and the Rule of Law: Repurposing ‘Cohesion’ as a General EU Spending Power	1
The Rule of Law Under Pressure: A Transnational Perspective	1
COVID-19, The Rule of Law and Democracy. Analysis of Legal Responses to a Global Health Crisis	1
The Rule of Law and Corporate Actors: Measuring Influence	0
Fixing the Problem of Unlawfully Appointed Judges in Poland in the Light of the ECHR	0
Constitutional Rewrite in Chile: Moving toward a Social and Democratic Rule of Law?	0
Gender Inequality and the Rule of Law	0
Courts and Populist Electoral Politics – the Case of Hungary	0
Informal Exercise of Power: Undermining Democracy Under the EU’s Radar in Hungary and Poland	0
The Shifting Landscape of Judicial Independence Criteria Under the Preliminary Reference Procedure: A Comment on the CJEU’s Recent Case Law and the Trajectory of Article 267 TFEU	0
Chile’s ‘Procedurally Regulated’ Constitution-Making Process	0
Post-communist Chief Justices in Slovakia: From Transmission Belts to Semi-autonomous Actors?	0
Administrative Law as a Dual State. Authoritarian Elements of Administrative Law	0
EU Enlargement Policy Goes East: Historical and Comparative Takes on the EU’s Rule of Law Conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine	0
The Rule of Law in a State of Disaster: Evaluating Standards for the Promulgation, Administration and Enforcement of Emergency Regulations in South Africa	0
Academic Freedom as a Defensive Right	0
Corruption and Separation of Powers: Where do Prosecutors Fit?	0
The Core Requirements of the International Rule of Law in the Practice of States	0
Pre-enlargement Reform Failures in the Western Balkans: Social and Economic Preconditions of the Rule of Law	0
Playbook of Subnational Illiberalism: Autocrats Face the Opposition-led Local Governments	0
The European Union’s Response to the Catalan Secessionist Process	0
The Rule of Law in Cities of the Medieval Low Countries: Community-Building in Context	0
A Democracy-Friendly Theory of the Rule of Law	0
Core, Periphery, and Universals in Rule of Law Promotion: Contextual (Dis)incentives, Conceptual Shifts	0
Rule of Law and the Criteria for Appointment of Judges: A Case for Judicial Virtues	0
Militant Rule of Law and Not-so-Bad Law	0
Winds of Change: Comparing the Early Phases of Constitutional Redrafting in Chile and Venezuela	0
Public International Law and the Catalan Secession Process	0
The Rule of Law: A Slogan in Search of a Concept	0
Amnesties, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law	0
Informal Concentration of Powers in Illiberal Constitutionalism: The Case of Hungary	0
EU Lawlessness Law at the EU-Belarusian Border: Torture and Dehumanisation Excused by ‘Instrumentalisation’	0
The Scope of City Autonomy in the Constitutions of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: Informality, Subsidiarity, Identity	0
The Systemic Implications of the Supranational Legal Order for the Practice of the Rule of Law	0

Populist Jurisprudence? Examining Selected Case Law of the Polish Constitutional Court After 2016	0
The Bidirectional Relationship Between Academic Freedom and Rule of Law: Hungary, Poland and Russia	0
Friends or Foes: Is Unamendability the Answer to Democratic Backsliding?	0
The Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the Catalan Secession Process	0
Aristocrats in Arbitration: Did Class Affect Inter-state Arbitration Before or After the 1899 Hague Peace Conference?	0
Special Issue of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law on Populism, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe	0
Abortion Law and Human Rights in Poland: The Closing of the Jurisprudential Horizon	0
Quick Fix Solutions-Anticorruption as Core/Peripheral Modality of the ‘Rule of Law’	0
Correction: Triangulation of Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualizations Related to the Rule of Law	0
Triangulation of Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualizations Related to the Rule of Law	0
EU Enlargement in Disregard of the Rule of Law: A Way Forward Following the Unsuccessful Dispute Settlement Between Croatia and Slovenia and the Name Change of Macedonia	0
European Judicial Supervision of the Rule of Law: The Protection of the Independence of National Judges by the CJEU and the ECtHR	0
EU Responses to the Democratic Deficit and the Rule of Law Crisis: Is It Time for a (New) European Exceptionalism?	0
The Rule of Law as a Well-Established and Well-Defined Principle of EU Law	0