OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Dispute Settlement 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A tale of two cities: the education and experiences of two ICJ judges in China and America	6
A case note of the review of the objection by the Russian Federation to a decision of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (CMM 01-2023) (PCA Case No. 2023-33	4
Sun from Behind the Clouds: the Appeals Board of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts	3
Application of the Principle of Unity in the Legal Settlement of Sovereignty Disputes over Islands and Other Maritime Features	3
Returning the Home State to the Global Anti-Corruption Campaign	3
Enhancing anti-corruption via investment arbitration: from red flags to due diligence	2
Individual Opinions as an Agent of International Legal Development?	2
Advancing Predictability via a Judicialized Investment Court? A Fresh Look Through the Lens of Constructivism	2
State Responsibility for the Conduct of Rebels in Situations of Unsuccessful Civil Wars: A Critical Analysis of the Cengiz v Libya Case	2
International Arbitration and Cross-Border Insolvency—Friends or Foes? Revisiting the Role of Arbitration in Resolving Cross-border Insolvency-Related Disputes	2
Investment Facilitation for Development and the Reform of International Investment Dispute Settlement Mechanism: The Choice of Developing Countries	2
In memoriam: The profound impact of professor Armand de Mestral	2
On the request for an advisory opinion on climate change under UNCLOS before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea	2
Enhancing access to digital justice: digital governance of dispute resolution and dispute prevention in online commercial activities	2
Missing Masters: Causes, Consequences and Corrections for States’ Disengagement from the Investment Treaty System	2
Latin America and the Caribbean in the International Court of Justice—an empirical quantitative analysis (2000–24)	2
Multiple proceedings and abuse of procedure on BRI disputes	2
The Rise of the International Commercial Court: A Threat to the Rule of Law?	1
The two problem pillars of multiple proceedings in investment arbitration: why the abuse of process doctrine is a necessary remedy and requires focus in UNCITRAL’s ISDS reform	1
China and International Adjudication—Picking Up Steam?	1
Complying with Custom before the World Court: Towards a Relational Normativity	1
Jurisdictional Conflicts between Investment Treaty and Commercial Arbitration—The Role of Lis Pendens	1
Cutting off the King’s Head: Rethinking Authority in International Law	1
Much More than a Footnote (or Three): Frank C. Hendryx and an Untold Story of Petroleum Concessions and the Genesis of ICSID	1
Unusual Sources of Inspiration: Schrödinger and Everett	1

Arbitration as an Alternative Dispute Settlement Mechanism at the WTO	1
Article 17.6(ii) of the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement: Waiting for Chekhov’s Gun to Go Off	1
Banning oil and gas activities under international investment law: a problem of indeterminacy	1
Reforming Shareholder Claims in Investor-State Dispute Settlement	1
Unusual Sources of Inspiration: Springsteen	1
Trade openness in developing countries and use of the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organisation	1
Reflecting on the interpretation and application of the international convention for the suppression of the financing of terrorism in light of the Ukraine v Russia case	1
How to write a judgment: creative writing and international adjudication	1
Damages and ISDS Reform: Between Procedure and Substance	0
National Contestations of the Legal Reasoning of International Courts and Tribunals: A Gramscian Discourse Analysis Approach	0
Affects, Emotions, and the Cartesian Epistemology of International Law	0
Corrigendum to idab005 “Judicial Interactions and Human Rights Contestations in Latin America”	0
Influence in investor-state dispute settlement: a dynamic concept	0
Compulsory dispute settlement system under the BBNJ agreement: some considerations on future constraints	0
Are the protections offered by EU law adequate alternatives to those offered by international investment law?	0
The legitimation of international adjudication	0
Provisional Measures after Ukraine v Russia (2022)	0
A new analytical matrix for understanding International Investment Law Agreements in the Global South	0
Pleading for international law: assessing the influence of party to proceedings on legal change in international courts	0
Equitable representation on international benches and the appointment of tribunal members in investor–State dispute settlement: a historical perspective	0
Reflecting on the rule of law contestations narratives in the world trading system	0
Admissibility of Counterclaims: The Practice of UNCLOS Tribunals	0
The Quadrilemma: Appointing Adjudicators in Future Investor–State Dispute Settlement	0
‘Lying with numbers’ in international arbitration against states	0
The ‘It’ Arbitrator: Why Do Corporations Not Act as Arbitrators?	0
The meaning of ‘very subject-matter of the dispute’ in the Monetary Gold rule of the International Court of Justice’s jurisprudence	0
From Traction to Treaty-Bound: Jus Cogens, Erga Omnes and Corporate Subjectivity in International Investment Arbitration	0
Continental shelf delimitation beyond 200 nautical miles: Mauritius/Maldives and the forking paths in the jurisprudence	0
Perception and Process: Towards a Behavioural Theory of Compliance	0
Selection and Appointment in International Adjudication: Insights from Political Science	0
Why states refuse to participate in judicial proceedings: uncovering key reasons and historical evolution	0
Competing over the continental shelf: the legal versus the geophysical entitlements	0
Compensation in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: towards an equitable approach	0
The ‘no greater rights’ principle: heading to a new Calvo Clause?	0
Confronting the ‘Non-Market Economy’ Treatment: The Evolving World Trade Organization Jurisprudence on Anti-Dumping and China’s Recent Practices	0
Arbitration in cross-border data protection disputes	0
The precarity of the police powers doctrine in investment arbitration: Rockhopper v Italy	0
Adjudication at the Service of Diplomacy: The Enrica Lexie Case	0
Reconceptualizing counterclaim assessment in investment treaty arbitration: a discourse on fairness through Rawlsian justice theory	0
When International Commercial Arbitration meets China’s sanction laws: living together but remaining apart?	0
The ICJ and the protection of foreign property under customary international law: quid novi?	0
Reconsidering International Compensation in Historical Context	0
Unveiling the ‘author’ of international law — The ‘legal effect’ of ICJ’s advisory opinions	0
The effects of third-party intervention in the adjudication of maritime delimitation disputes	0
Dynamics of change in international investment law	0
‘China’s Disequilibrium’ in ISDS: an interplay of China’s trade-offs and domestic institutions to investment treaty policy	0
The ICJ judgment on Nicaragua v Colombia (2022): applying an established jurisdictional test or a problematic invention?	0
Keeping score: an empirical analysis of the interventions in Ukraine v Russia	0
International commercial courts and EU law: easing the tension	0
Mediation in Future Investor–State Dispute Settlement	0

Behavioural Compliance Theory	0
Procedural Cross-Fertilization in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration: A Functional Approach	0
Getting ‘real’ about ISDS reform: a critical realist view of international investment law’s status quo	0
Standing the Test of Time: The Level Playing Field and Rebalancing Mechanism in the UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA)	0
Ownership of the sea: evaluating how culture affects the success of dispute resolution techniques in resolving maritime boundary conflicts	0
New developments in the interpretation and application of the clean hands doctrine by investment tribunals	0
The ‘Open System’ and Its Gatekeepers: From Complexity in International Law, a Seminar in Honour of James Crawford	0
The uneasy delegation: conditional judicialization of international investment dispute settlement	0
Sanctioning to Change State Behaviour	0
New international commercial courts: a delocalized approach	0
Unusual Source of Inspiration: Cooking International Law	0
The ‘Arbitralization’ of Courts: The Role of International Commercial Arbitration in the Establishment and the Procedural Design of International Commercial Courts	0
Is There Life After Death?: The Persuasive Value of Annulled Investment Awards	0
International investment law and public health: the need for forward-looking reforms	0
Deripaska v Montenegro: the alpha and omega of State succession to BITs	0
Treaty interpretation, multilinguism, and the WTO dispute settlement system: towards the comparative translation paradigm?	0
Independence and impartiality through the lens of incompatible activities, disqualification and challenge: the ICJ, ITLOS, and inter-State arbitration	0
The sovereign function test out of thin air? The status of the central bank determined behind the scenes in Certain Iranian Assets	0
Evidentiary challenges in the litigation of war reparations: Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (DRC v Uganda)	0
The Legislative Adjustment of Chinese Enforcement Regulation of the International Commercial Settlement Agreement in the context of the Singapore mediation convention	0
Erratum to: How are Disputes Resolved under Bilateral Air Services Agreements? A Typology	0
The Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform Process: Design, Dilemmas and Discontents	0
Experimentation at the WTO lab: towards a better ‘Interface’ to accommodate State-owned enterprises	0
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Deference in Investment Treaty Arbitration?	0
Correction to: Enhancing access to digital justice: digital governance of dispute resolution and dispute prevention in online commercial activities	0
Drawing boundaries of police powers doctrine: a balanced framework for investors and states	0
Towards clarity: the ‘may be affected’ requirement and non-party intervention at the International Court of Justice	0
Erratum to: China and International Adjudication—Picking Up Steam?	0
Choice of court agreements in light of CJEU Decision in case C-566/22 Inkreal	0
Of squares, spheres and the elusive third dimension	0
A framework of African Continental Free Trade Area dispute settlement mechanism: legal challenges	0
Paradigms of justice and the limits of ISDS reform	0
Towards Greater Investor Accountability: Indirect Actions, Direct Actions by States and Direct Actions by Individuals	0
Reparations in environmental cases: should the International Criminal Court consider the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence?	0
OECD National Contact Point Specific Instances: When ‘Soft Law’ Bites?	0
Environmental accountability: a case for international conciliation?	0
When the Dragon comes Home to Roost: Chinese Investments in the EU, National Security, and Investor–State Arbitration	0
Correction to: Cutting off the King’s Head: Rethinking Authority in International Law	0
Enhancing Conflict Resolution ‘ASEAN Way’: The Dispute Settlement System of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	0
International organizations’ practice in the interpretation of their constituent instruments	0
The Potential of the Singapore Convention on Mediation for Art and Cultural Property Disputes	0
The afterlife of ISDS awards: post-award settlements and the limits of transparency reforms	0
A tale of policy carve-outs and general exceptions: Eco Oro v Colombia as a case study	0
The resolution of professional tennis disputes	0
International sanctions enacted against Russia as overriding mandatory rules—on which foot should international arbitrators stand?	0
The Draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators in Investor–State Dispute Settlement: A Low-hanging Fruit in the ISDS Reform Process	0
Editorial Series on Unusual Sources of Inspiration for International Dispute Settlement	0
Inter-State Communication under ICERD: From ad hoc Conciliation to Collective Enforcement?	0
The use of MFN clauses in investment arbitration: the problem of importation	0
From Smart Contract Litigation to Blockchain Arbitration, a New Decentralized Approach Leading Towards the Blockchain Arbitral Order	0
An Equivocal or Unequivocal Bar for Determining Consent to Jurisdiction	0
Biased or Not Biased? Arbitral Decision-Making and Arbitrators’ Preferences	0
Disrupt the Gambler’s Nirvana: Security for Costs in Investment Arbitration Supported by Third-Party Funding	0
The interplay of Islamic principles of construction in English court: the case of NIOC v Crescent Petroleum	0
Domestic Contestations against International Courts and Tribunals: Introduction to the Special Issue	0
State Compliance with International Law in Intelligence Matters: A Behavioural Approach	0
Critics are not enemies	0
The Origins and Operation of the General Principles of Law as Gap fillers	0
Beyond law and politics: an empirical study of judicial mediation in China	0