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| 1 | The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance | American Journal of International Law | 1992 | 893 |
| 2 | Lawyers, Judges, and the Making of a Transnational Constitution | American Journal of International Law | 1981 | 603 |
| 3 | Security and emancipation | Review of International Studies | 1991 | 581 |
| 4 | The concept of security | Review of International Studies | 1997 | 570 |
| 5 | Human Dignity and Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights | European Journal of International Law | 2008 | 568 |
| 6 | Towards Relative Normativity in International Law? | American Journal of International Law | 1983 | 544 |
| 7 | International Law in a World of Liberal States | European Journal of International Law | 1995 | 481 |
| 8 | The Humanization of Humanitarian Law | American Journal of International Law | 2000 | 457 |
| 9 | International peacebuilding and the ‘mission civilisatrice’ | Review of International Studies | 2002 | 456 |
| 10 | Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change | Leiden Journal of International Law | 2005 | 444 |
| 11 | Saving liberal peacebuilding | Review of International Studies | 2010 | 430 |
| 12 | Fragmentation of International Law? Postmodern Anxieties | Leiden Journal of International Law | 2002 | 419 |
| 13 | Legitimacy in the International System | American Journal of International Law | 1988 | 393 |
| 14 | THE PRINCIPLE OF SYSTEMIC INTEGRATION AND ARTICLE 31(3)(C) OF THE VIENNA CONVENTION | International and Comparative Law Quarterly | 2005 | 386 |
| 15 | The state as person in international theory | Review of International Studies | 2004 | 383 |
| 16 | Fear no more: emotions and world politics | Review of International Studies | 2008 | 377 |
| 17 | The Legitimacy of International Governance: A Coming Challenge for International Environmental Law? | American Journal of International Law | 1999 | 370 |
| 18 | NATO, the UN and the use of force: legal aspects | European Journal of International Law | 1999 | 369 |
| 19 | Feminist Approaches to International Law | American Journal of International Law | 1991 | 368 |
| 20 | The postcolonial moment in security studies | Review of International Studies | 2006 | 367 |
| 21 | The Other in European self-definition: an addendum to the literature on international society | Review of International Studies | 1991 | 360 |
| 22 | Beyond Impunity: Can International Criminal Justice Prevent Future Atrocities? | American Journal of International Law | 2001 | 338 |
| 23 | Of Planets and the Universe: Self-contained Regimes in International Law | European Journal of International Law | 2006 | 333 |
| 24 | The assumption of anarchy in international relations theory: a critique | Review of International Studies | 1991 | 326 |
| 25 | European Legal Systems are not Converging | International and Comparative Law Quarterly | 1996 | 318 |
| 26 | Subsidiarity as a Structural Principle of International Human Rights Law | American Journal of International Law | 2003 | 302 |
| 27 | On the Current Trends towards Criminal Prosecution and Punishment of Breaches of International Humanitarian Law | European Journal of International Law | 1998 | 299 |
| 28 | The Peace of Westphalia, 1648–1948 | American Journal of International Law | 1948 | 294 |
| 29 | Biopolitics of security in the 21st century: an introduction | Review of International Studies | 2008 | 294 |
| 30 | Universal International Law | American Journal of International Law | 1993 | 292 |
| 31 | The Challenge of Soft Law: Development and Change in International Law | International and Comparative Law Quarterly | 1989 | 288 |
| 32 | International Law and International Relations Theory: A Dual Agenda | American Journal of International Law | 1993 | 284 |
| 33 | The Politics of International Law | European Journal of International Law | 1990 | 283 |
| 34 | On constitution and causation in International Relations | Review of International Studies | 1998 | 283 |
| 35 | Traditional and Modern Approaches to Customary International Law: A Reconciliation | American Journal of International Law | 2001 | 281 |
| 36 | Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights | American Journal of International Law | 2003 | 278 |
| 37 | Explaining the resurgence of regionalism in world politics | Review of International Studies | 1995 | 276 |
| 38 | Ex iniuria ius oritur: are we moving towards international legitimation of forcible humanitarian countermeasures in the world community? | European Journal of International Law | 1999 | 276 |
| 39 | The Security Council as World Legislature | American Journal of International Law | 2005 | 274 |
| 40 | United Nations Conference on Environment and Development | International Legal Materials | 1992 | 271 |
| 41 | The resurgence of the ‘Region’ and ‘Regional Identity’: theoretical perspectives and empirical observations on regional dynamics in Europe | Review of International Studies | 2009 | 271 |
| 42 | The Concept of 'Law' in Global Administrative Law | European Journal of International Law | 2009 | 270 |
| 43 | International Law and International Relations Theory: A New Generation of Interdisciplinary Scholarship | American Journal of International Law | 1998 | 269 |
| 44 | The nature and sources of liberal international order | Review of International Studies | 1999 | 269 |
| 45 | Rethinking epistemic communities twenty years later | Review of International Studies | 2013 | 268 |
| 46 | Civil society at the turn of the millenium: prospects for an alternative world order | Review of International Studies | 1999 | 267 |
| 47 | Positivism, Functionalism, and International Law | American Journal of International Law | 1940 | 265 |
| 48 | Sexual Violence Against Men in Armed Conflict | European Journal of International Law | 2007 | 263 |
| 49 | The Legitimacy of International Law: A Constitutionalist Framework of Analysis | European Journal of International Law | 2004 | 262 |
| 50 | The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants | American Journal of International Law | 2001 | 257 |
| 51 | Paris Agreement | International Legal Materials | 2016 | 257 |
| 52 | Toward a General Margin of Appreciation Doctrine in International Law? | European Journal of International Law | 2005 | 256 |
| 53 | A post-liberal peace: Eirenism and the everyday | Review of International Studies | 2009 | 256 |
| 54 | How to compare regional powers: analytical concepts and research topics | Review of International Studies | 2010 | 256 |
| 55 | Form and Substance in International Agreements | American Journal of International Law | 2005 | 252 |
| 56 | Macrosecuritisation and security constellations: reconsidering scale in securitisation theory | Review of International Studies | 2009 | 247 |
| 57 | Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Living Culture of Peoples | European Journal of International Law | 2011 | 246 |
| 58 | The Paris Climate Change Agreement: A New Hope? | American Journal of International Law | 2016 | 246 |
| 59 | Autonomous Institutional Arrangements in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Little-Noticed Phenomenon in International Law | American Journal of International Law | 2000 | 244 |
| 60 | Proportionality and Force in International Law | American Journal of International Law | 1993 | 243 |
| 61 | International Institutions Today: An Imperial Global State in the Making | European Journal of International Law | 2004 | 243 |
| 62 | 'Core Labour Standards' and the Transformation of the International Labour Rights Regime | European Journal of International Law | 2004 | 243 |
| 63 | Introduction: Global Governance and Global Administrative Law in the International Legal Order | European Journal of International Law | 2006 | 241 |
| 64 | Compensatory Constitutionalism: The Function and Potential of Fundamental International Norms and Structures | Leiden Journal of International Law | 2006 | 240 |
| 65 | Constructing identity and relating to difference: understanding the EU's mode of differentiation | Review of International Studies | 2004 | 238 |
| 66 | The Role of Public International Law in the WTO: How Far Can We Go? | American Journal of International Law | 2001 | 237 |
| 67 | International Criminalization of Internal Atrocities | American Journal of International Law | 1995 | 234 |
| 68 | Enacting meaning-in-use: qualitative research on norms and international relations | Review of International Studies | 2009 | 233 |
| 69 | WTO Dispute Settlement and Human Rights | European Journal of International Law | 2002 | 230 |
| 70 | Human rights and the social construction of sovereignty | Review of International Studies | 2001 | 229 |
| 71 | The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship | American Journal of International Law | 2012 | 228 |
| 72 | Remedies in the WTO legal system: between a rock and a hard place | European Journal of International Law | 2000 | 227 |
| 73 | International Law in Times of Hegemony: Unequal Power and the Shaping of the International Legal Order | European Journal of International Law | 2005 | 227 |
| 74 | Redesigning the European Court of Human Rights: Embeddedness as a Deep Structural Principle of the European Human Rights Regime | European Journal of International Law | 2008 | 227 |
| 75 | The product/process distinction - an illusory basis for disciplining 'unilateralism' in trade policy | European Journal of International Law | 2000 | 226 |
| 76 | Identity and security: Buzan and the Copenhagen school | Review of International Studies | 1996 | 224 |
| 77 | The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court | American Journal of International Law | 1999 | 223 |
| 78 | Constructing Norms for Global Cybersecurity | American Journal of International Law | 2016 | 223 |
| 79 | Global Administrative Law: The Quest for Principles and Values | European Journal of International Law | 2006 | 222 |
| 80 | Sovereignty and Human Rights in Contemporary International Law | American Journal of International Law | 1990 | 221 |
| 81 | Two Ways of Thinking about Cultural Property | American Journal of International Law | 1986 | 218 |
| 82 | Conjuring Up New Human Rights: A Proposal For Quality Control | American Journal of International Law | 1984 | 215 |
| 83 | The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | American Journal of International Law | 1998 | 215 |
| 84 | The law of the exception: A typology of emergency powers | International Journal of Constitutional Law | 2004 | 215 |
| 85 | Sovereignty and Inequality | European Journal of International Law | 1998 | 213 |
| 86 | The Martens Clause: half a loaf or simply pie in the sky? | European Journal of International Law | 2000 | 213 |
| 87 | The United States and the International Criminal Court | American Journal of International Law | 1999 | 212 |
| 88 | The Politics of International Law - 20 Years Later | European Journal of International Law | 2009 | 209 |
| 89 | The Martens Clause, Principles of Humanity, and Dictates of Public Conscience | American Journal of International Law | 2000 | 208 |
| 90 | The Administrative Law of Global Private-Public Regulation: the Case of Forestry | European Journal of International Law | 2006 | 208 |
| 91 | Humanity as the A and of Sovereignty | European Journal of International Law | 2009 | 206 |
| 92 | Strategic culture as context: the first generation of theory strikes back | Review of International Studies | 1999 | 205 |
| 93 | Vulnerable groups: The promise of an emerging concept in European Human Rights Convention law | International Journal of Constitutional Law | 2013 | 205 |
| 94 | The Maastricht Treaty, Economic and Monetary Union and the neo-realist research programme | Review of International Studies | 1995 | 204 |
| 95 | Human Dignity as a Normative Concept | American Journal of International Law | 1983 | 203 |
| 96 | Normative Hierarchy in International Law | American Journal of International Law | 2006 | 201 |
| 97 | “Indigenous Peoples” in International Law: A Constructivist Approach to the Asian Controversy | American Journal of International Law | 1998 | 200 |
| 98 | A fresh look at soft law | European Journal of International Law | 1999 | 200 |
| 99 | When security community meets balance of power: overlapping regional mechanisms of security governance | Review of International Studies | 2009 | 200 |
| 100 | Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Kigali Amendment) | International Legal Materials | 2017 | 199 |
