| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Plural Policing and Democratic Governance | Social and Legal Studies | 2000 | 331 |
| 2 | Jurisdiction and Scale: Legal `Technicalities' as Resources for Theory | Social and Legal Studies | 2009 | 250 |
| 3 | Reply to Critics | Social and Legal Studies | 2014 | 213 |
| 4 | New Bearings in the Sociology of Law | Social and Legal Studies | 2014 | 210 |
| 5 | Enclosure, Common Right and the Property of the Poor | Social and Legal Studies | 2008 | 194 |
| 6 | Governed By Law? | Social and Legal Studies | 1998 | 192 |
| 7 | Constructing the `Right To the City' in Brazil | Social and Legal Studies | 2007 | 180 |
| 8 | ‘Setting ’Em Up’: Personal, Familial and Institutional Grooming in the Sexual Abuse of Children | Social and Legal Studies | 2006 | 176 |
| 9 | Sexual Violence in the Digital Age | Social and Legal Studies | 2016 | 153 |
| 10 | Francisco De Vitoria and the Colonial Origins of International Law | Social and Legal Studies | 1996 | 152 |
| 11 | Victims and Transitional Justice | Social and Legal Studies | 2013 | 149 |
| 12 | The Woman of Legal Discourse | Social and Legal Studies | 1992 | 125 |
| 13 | A History of Ambivalence and Conflict in the Discursive Construction of the ‘Child Victim’ of Sexual Abuse | Social and Legal Studies | 1999 | 118 |
| 14 | Now You See Her, Now You Don’t: Sex Workers at the UN Trafficking Protocol Negotiation | Social and Legal Studies | 2005 | 117 |
| 15 | Anticipating the Past | Social and Legal Studies | 2012 | 116 |
| 16 | Border Control and the Limits of the Sovereign State | Social and Legal Studies | 2008 | 114 |
| 17 | Mobilization Through Interpellation : James Bulger, Juvenile Crime and the Construction of a Moral Panic | Social and Legal Studies | 1995 | 113 |
| 18 | Dealing with Law in Migration Control | Social and Legal Studies | 2014 | 97 |
| 19 | Justice Discourses in Transition | Social and Legal Studies | 2004 | 94 |
| 20 | Capitalism, Globalization and Rule of Law : an Alternative Trajectory of Legal Change in China | Social and Legal Studies | 1994 | 86 |
| 21 | Subalternity and International Law: the Problems of Global Community and the Incommensurability of Difference | Social and Legal Studies | 1996 | 82 |
| 22 | Architects of Justice: the Politics of Courtroom Design | Social and Legal Studies | 2007 | 81 |
| 23 | Male Rape and the Careful Construction of the Male Victim | Social and Legal Studies | 2006 | 78 |
| 24 | Kaleidoscopic Justice: Sexual Violence and Victim-Survivors’ Perceptions of Justice | Social and Legal Studies | 2019 | 78 |
| 25 | The Sad Subject of Infanticide: Law, Medicine and Child Murder, 1860-1938 | Social and Legal Studies | 1999 | 77 |
| 26 | How Rape Myths Are Used and Challenged in Rape and Sexual Assault Trials | Social and Legal Studies | 2017 | 75 |
| 27 | Beyond Legal Pluralism: Towards a New Approach To Law in the Informal Sector | Social and Legal Studies | 1994 | 73 |
| 28 | Disclosing/Invoking Legal Culture: an Introduction | Social and Legal Studies | 1995 | 70 |
| 29 | Queer Property, Queer Persons: Self-Ownership and Beyond | Social and Legal Studies | 1999 | 68 |
| 30 | Sentencing as Craftwork and the Binary Epistemologies of the Discretionary Decision Process | Social and Legal Studies | 2007 | 68 |
| 31 | International Therapeutic Peace and Justice in Bosnia | Social and Legal Studies | 2004 | 67 |
| 32 | ‘It’s Torture for the Soul’: The Harms of Image-Based Sexual Abuse | Social and Legal Studies | 2021 | 67 |
| 33 | Critical Legal Studies and the Politics of Space | Social and Legal Studies | 2009 | 66 |
| 34 | The Trans-Cyberian Mail Way | Social and Legal Studies | 1998 | 65 |
| 35 | Narrating Political Reconciliation: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa | Social and Legal Studies | 2006 | 64 |
| 36 | Of ‘Normal Sex’ and ‘Real Rape’: Exploring The Use of Socio-Sexual Scripts in (Mock) Jury Deliberation | Social and Legal Studies | 2009 | 63 |
| 37 | The Demon Drink and the Demonized Woman: Socio-Sexual Stereotypes and Responsibility Attribution in Rape Trials Involving Intoxicants | Social and Legal Studies | 2007 | 60 |
| 38 | The Politics of Legalism : Rules Versus Standards in Nursing-Home Regulation | Social and Legal Studies | 1995 | 58 |
| 39 | ‘Other Inhumane Acts’: Forced Marriage, Girl Soldiers and the Special Court for Sierra Leone | Social and Legal Studies | 2006 | 58 |
| 40 | ‘Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul?’1 Compensation, Social Control and Social Suffering | Social and Legal Studies | 2012 | 58 |
| 41 | Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants: the Irish Case in International Perspective | Social and Legal Studies | 2007 | 57 |
| 42 | Advancing Indigenous Rights at the United Nations: Strategic Framing and Its Impact on the Normative Development of International Law | Social and Legal Studies | 2004 | 56 |
| 43 | Political Reconciliation Through a Struggle for Recognition? | Social and Legal Studies | 2004 | 56 |
| 44 | Family, Law and Sexuality: Feminist Engagements | Social and Legal Studies | 1999 | 55 |
| 45 | `Islamic Headscarves' and the European Convention On Human Rights: an Intersectional Perspective | Social and Legal Studies | 2007 | 55 |
| 46 | The Politics of Global Information Sharing: Whose Cultural Agendas Are Being Advanced? | Social and Legal Studies | 2009 | 55 |
| 47 | Subversive Property: Reshaping Malleable Spaces of Belonging | Social and Legal Studies | 2010 | 53 |
| 48 | Gazette of Morality and Social Whip: Punishment, Hegemony and the Case of the Usa, I970-92 | Social and Legal Studies | 1993 | 51 |
| 49 | The Fixation on Wartime Rape | Social and Legal Studies | 2014 | 51 |
| 50 | The Politics of Rights : a Politics With Little Class | Social and Legal Studies | 1992 | 50 |
