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Legal Systems and Judicial Processes

Legal Systems and Judicial Processes is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of legal and policy topics, including transnational law, international justice, corporate governance, human rights, constitutional law, criminal justice, intellectual property, and environmental law. The papers explore various dimensions of legal and policy issues in a transnational context, reflecting the complexities and challenges of navigating the intersection of law and global affairs.

  • Transnational Law
  • Policy Dimensions
  • International Justice
  • Legal Profession
  • Human Rights
  • Corporate Governance
  • Constitutional Law
  • Criminal Justice
  • Intellectual Property
  • Environmental Law
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-32%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
78% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Legal Systems and Judicial Processes

Which countries lead Legal Systems and Judicial Processes research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (1.1k and 70 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 70 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 68 works
  4. 4 Canada 43 works
  5. 5 India 40 works
  6. 6 Latvia 29 works
  7. 7 Russia 25 works
  8. 8 Australia 22 works
  9. 9 China 16 works
  10. 10 Germany 12 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 77.9%Indonesia: 4.8%United Kingdom: 4.6%Canada: 2.9%6 others listed: 9.8%78%largest
United States1,147 · 77.9%Indonesia70 · 4.8%United Kingdom68 · 4.6%Canada43 · 2.9%6 others listed144 · 9.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Legal Systems and Judicial Processes research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Michigan publishes the most Legal Systems and Judicial Processes research, followed by College of Law and Yale University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of MichiganUnited States 49 works
  2. 2 College of LawLatvia 29 works
  3. 3 Yale UniversityUnited States 18 works
  4. 4 Georgetown UniversityUnited States 17 works
  5. 5 Indiana UniversityUnited States 14 works
  6. 6 Boston UniversityUnited States 13 works
  7. 7 New York Law SchoolUnited States 13 works
  8. 8 Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 13 works
  9. 9 University of FloridaUnited States 13 works
  10. 10 University of VirginiaUnited States 12 works

What are the most cited papers in Legal Systems and Judicial Processes?

The most cited paper in Legal Systems and Judicial Processes is "Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law" (Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, 1988), with 1,347 citations. Next come "Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization" (1,014) and "The Virginia Journal of International Law (A)" (621).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law Kimberle Williams Crenshaw · Harvard Law Review May 1988 1,347
2 Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization Paul Ohm · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 13 Aug 2009 1,014
3 The Virginia Journal of International Law (A) Elliott N. Weiss, Britton Taubenfeld · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2020 621
4 Going by the Book: The Problem of Regulatory Unreasonableness, by Eugene Bardach and Robert A. Kagan Robert A. Katzmann · Political Science Quarterly 1983 602
5 Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education, by Gary Orfield and Susan E. Eaton Paul Teske · Political Science Quarterly 1997 514
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Legal Systems and Judicial Processes research done?

The largest centres of Legal Systems and Judicial Processes research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), Ann Arbor (United States) and Chicago (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Riga.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 76 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 67 works
  3. 3 Ann ArborUnited States 49 works
  4. 4 ChicagoUnited States 34 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 29 works
  6. 6 RigaLatvia 29 works
  7. 7 PhiladelphiaUnited States 22 works
  8. 8 New HavenUnited States 18 works
  9. 9 Los AngelesUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 HoustonUnited States 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RigaLV · 29.0 works35×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Legal Systems and Judicial Processes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Legal Systems and Judicial Processes?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Michigan, Yale University and Georgetown University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 15.98%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Georgetown UniversityUniversity of MichiganYale UniversityCollege of Law
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of MichiganUnited States 73.017.2%22.8×49 +13.8%
2Yale UniversityUnited States 53.213.0%11.9×18 -50.0%
3Georgetown UniversityUnited States 52.921.1%26.9×17 -58.6%
4College of LawLatvia 52.18.8%420.8×29 -47.2%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 45.025.9%4.3×9 -43.4%
6University of ChicagoUnited States 41.914.5%8.1×10 -29.5%
7New York Law SchoolUnited States 41.514.4%419.0×13 -50.1%
8University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 40.019.9%6.1×9 -50.0%
9William & MaryUnited States 38.219.8%76.2×10 -40.4%
10Boston UniversityUnited States 35.55.2%19.0×13 -24.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Legal Systems and Judicial Processes, country by country

Is Legal Systems and Judicial Processes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Legal Systems and Judicial Processes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0080% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Legal Systems and Judicial Processes over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Legal Systems and Judicial Processes10.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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