OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Hague Journal on the Rule of 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 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	35
Chile’s New Constitution: What Right to Health?	32
Reconciling Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union	16
Well-Tempered Power: ‘A Cultural Achievement of Universal Significance’	14
Purging the Judiciary After a Transition: Between a Rock and a Hard Place	11
Private Power, the Rule of Law and the European Union	10
Pre-enlargement Reform Failures in the Western Balkans: Social and Economic Preconditions of the Rule of Law	8
The Rule of Law Under Pressure: A Transnational Perspective	6
Correction: Triangulation of Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualizations Related to the Rule of Law	5
The Rule of Law as a Well-Established and Well-Defined Principle of EU Law	5
Informal Concentration of Powers in Illiberal Constitutionalism: The Case of Hungary	5
Rule of Law and the Criteria for Appointment of Judges: A Case for Judicial Virtues	5
Academic Freedom as a Defensive Right	4
Informal Exercise of Power: Undermining Democracy Under the EU’s Radar in Hungary and Poland	4
Courts and Populist Electoral Politics – the Case of Hungary	4
Special Issue of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law on Populism, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe	4
Aristocrats in Arbitration: Did Class Affect Inter-state Arbitration Before or After the 1899 Hague Peace Conference?	4
Chile’s ‘Procedurally Regulated’ Constitution-Making Process	4
How Political Narratives Affect the Self-Enforcing Nature of Interim Constitutions	3
Between a Rock-Hard Reality and a Pious Wish Place: Postema on the Rule of Law Beyond Borders	3
Rule of Law and Political Representation	3
Rule of Law Through the ‘Urban Turn’ in South African Constitutionalism	3
To Live and to Learn: The EU Commission’s Failure to Recognise Rule of Law Deficiencies in Lithuania	3
Correction: International and European Law and the Catalan Secession Process: Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democracy at Stake?	3
Reclaiming Political Rights During a Rule of Law Crisis: The Role of the UN Human Rights Committee	3

Maritime Rule of Law: Some Preliminaries	3
Was There a Rule of Law in Early Modern Amsterdam? Mercantile Customary Law as a Test	2
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	2
Triangulation of Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualizations Related to the Rule of Law	2
Gender Inequality and the Rule of Law	2
Amnesties, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law	2
Winds of Change: Comparing the Early Phases of Constitutional Redrafting in Chile and Venezuela	2
Quick Fix Solutions-Anticorruption as Core/Peripheral Modality of the ‘Rule of Law’	2
The Council of Europe and the Catalan Secessionist Process: The Authoritarian Drift of the Radical Democratic Principle	1
Reconstructing Legitimacy After Crisis: The Chilean Path to a New Constitution	1
Crisis, Reinterpretation, and the Rule of Law: Repurposing ‘Cohesion’ as a General EU Spending Power	1
The Rule of Law and Corporate Actors: Measuring Influence	1
It Never Rains but it Pours. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal Declares the European Convention on Human Rights Unconstitutional	1
Urban Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges	1
Militant Democracy and Rule of Law in Three Paradoxes: The Annulment of the Romanian Presidential Elections	1
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	1
Enforcement of a Formal Conception of the Rule of Law as a Potential Way Forward to Address Backsliding: Hungary as a Case Study	1
Rebuilding the Rule of Law in the Era of Democratic Backsliding	1
COVID-19, The Rule of Law and Democracy. Analysis of Legal Responses to a Global Health Crisis	1
Reconciling the Theory and the Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union Measuring the Rule of Law	1