William Twining

4.8k total citations
106 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

William Twining is a scholar working on Law, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William Twining has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Law, 44 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William Twining's work include Legal Education and Practice Innovations (29 papers), Comparative and International Law Studies (29 papers) and Judicial and Constitutional Studies (18 papers). William Twining is often cited by papers focused on Legal Education and Practice Innovations (29 papers), Comparative and International Law Studies (29 papers) and Judicial and Constitutional Studies (18 papers). William Twining collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. William Twining's co-authors include Terence Anderson, David Miers, David A. Schum, Roderick A. Macdonald, Grant Gilmore, John Bell, Christopher McCrudden, J. R. Dinwiddy, G. A. Vignaux and Bernard Robertson and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Law & Society Review and Stanford Law Review.

In The Last Decade

William Twining

94 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Twining United Kingdom 21 910 605 328 210 159 106 1.6k
Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart 3 773 0.8× 850 1.4× 582 1.8× 276 1.3× 170 1.1× 3 2.0k
Neil MacCormick United Kingdom 20 1.0k 1.1× 1.1k 1.8× 500 1.5× 161 0.8× 83 0.5× 91 2.0k
Robert Alexy Germany 23 1.4k 1.6× 1.2k 2.0× 573 1.7× 177 0.8× 160 1.0× 120 2.3k
Hans Kelsen United States 21 948 1.0× 1.2k 2.0× 682 2.1× 162 0.8× 108 0.7× 157 2.2k
Lon L. Fuller United States 11 679 0.7× 524 0.9× 404 1.2× 244 1.2× 24 0.2× 26 1.3k
Lewis A. Kornhauser United States 19 814 0.9× 387 0.6× 403 1.2× 1.2k 5.9× 189 1.2× 78 2.2k
Frank I. Michelman United States 17 524 0.6× 625 1.0× 402 1.2× 399 1.9× 16 0.1× 107 1.4k
Max Rheinstein United States 11 398 0.4× 373 0.6× 439 1.3× 183 0.9× 53 0.3× 61 1.2k
Owen M. Fiss United States 15 377 0.4× 292 0.5× 280 0.9× 175 0.8× 20 0.1× 84 879
Roger Cotterrell United Kingdom 17 527 0.6× 362 0.6× 385 1.2× 111 0.5× 14 0.1× 77 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Twining

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Twining

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Mertz, Elizabeth, Michael W. McCann, Stewart Macaulay, et al.. (2016). The New Legal Realism. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 12 indexed citations
2.
Twining, William. (2011). Globalisation and Legal Scholarship. UCL Discovery (University College London). 11 indexed citations
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Twining, William. (2011). Responding to Globalization. Osgoode Hall law journal. 49(2). 353–373. 3 indexed citations
4.
Twining, William. (2009). Human Rights, Southern Voices. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 15 indexed citations
5.
Twining, William. (2009). General Jurisprudence. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 73 indexed citations
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Economides, Kim, et al.. (2007). Can human rights survive?: a symposium on the 2005 Hamlyn lectures. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 2 indexed citations
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Twining, William. (2007). Argumentation, stories and generalizations: a comment. Law Probability and Risk. 6(1-4). 169–185. 6 indexed citations
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Twining, William. (2006). Diffusion and Globalization Discourse. Harvard international law journal. 47(2). 507–516. 14 indexed citations
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Twining, William. (2005). Human Rights: Southern Voices: Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na’im, Yash Ghai, and Upendra Baxi. UCL Discovery (University College London).
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Twining, William. (2005). TEORÍA GENERAL DEL DERECHO. Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez. 39. 597–688. 13 indexed citations
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Twining, William. (2003). A Post-Westphalian Conception of Law. Law & Society Review. 37(1). 199–258. 21 indexed citations
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Twining, William & Iain Hampsher‐Monk. (2003). Evidence and inference in history and law : interdisciplinary dialogues. Northwestern University Press eBooks. 30(2). 3–13. 3 indexed citations
13.
Twining, William, John Bell, & Christopher McCrudden. (2001). French Legal Cultures. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 18 indexed citations
14.
Twining, William. (1997). Other People's Power: The Bad Man and English Positivism 1897-1997. Brooklyn law review. 63(1). 189. 4 indexed citations
15.
Twining, William & Emma Quick. (1994). Legal records in the Commonwealth. 2 indexed citations
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Twining, William. (1993). The Idea of Juristic Method: A Tribute to Karl Llewellyn. University of Miami law review. 48(1). 119. 4 indexed citations
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Anderson, Terence & William Twining. (1991). Analysis of evidence : how to do things with facts. 19 indexed citations
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Twining, William, et al.. (1981). Legal Literature in Small Jurisdictions. 1 indexed citations
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Twining, William & Jennifer Uglow. (1981). Law publishing and legal information : small jurisdictions of the British Isles. Sweet & Maxwell eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Twining, William. (1963). The Restatement of African Customary Law: A Comment. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 1(2). 221–228. 5 indexed citations

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