| Chiefs in South Africa: Law, power and culture in the post-apartheid era B Oomen James Currey Publishers, 2005 | 511 | 2005 |
| ‘One chief, one vote’: The revival of traditional authorities in post-apartheid South Africa I Van Kessel, B Oomen African Affairs 96 (385), 561-585, 1997 | 231 | 1997 |
| Introduction: the promise and challenges of human rights cities B Oomen Global Urban Justice: the rise of human rights cities, 336, 2016 | 199* | 2016 |
| Donor‐driven justice and its discontents: The case of Rwanda B Oomen Development and Change 36 (5), 887-910, 2005 | 185 | 2005 |
| Frontier cities: The rise of local authorities as an opportunity for international human rights law B Oomen, M Baumgärtel European Journal of International Law 29 (2), 607-630, 2018 | 168 | 2018 |
| ‘Going Glocal’: a qualitative and quantitative analysis of global citizenship education at a Dutch liberal arts and sciences college M Sklad, J Friedman, E Park, B Oomen Higher education 72 (3), 323-340, 2016 | 147 | 2016 |
| Decoupling and teaming up: The rise and proliferation of transnational municipal networks in the field of migration B Oomen International Migration Review 54 (3), 913-939, 2020 | 146 | 2020 |
| Human rights cities B Oomen, M Baumgärtel The SAGE handbook of human rights 2, 709-730, 2014 | 103 | 2014 |
| “We must now go back to our history” Retraditionalisation in a Northern Province Chieftaincy B Oomen African Studies 59 (1), 71-95, 2000 | 96 | 2000 |
| Vigilantism or alternative citizenship? The rise of Mapogo a Mathamaga B Oomen African Studies 63 (2), 153-171, 2004 | 95 | 2004 |
| Strategies of divergence: Local authorities, law, and discretionary spaces in migration governance B Oomen, M Baumgärtel, S Miellet, E Durmus, T Sabchev Journal of Refugee Studies 34 (4), 3608-3628, 2021 | 72 | 2021 |
| Chiefs!: law, power and culture in contemporary South Africa B Oomen Universiteit Leiden, 2002 | 69 | 2002 |
| Tradition on the move: Chiefs, democracy and change in rural South Africa B Oomen Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa, 2000 | 58 | 2000 |
| Group rights in post-apartheid South Africa: The case of the traditional leaders B Oomen The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 31 (44), 73-103, 1999 | 55 | 1999 |
| Cities of refuge: Rights, culture and the creation of cosmopolitan cityzenship B Oomen Cultures, citizenship and human rights, 121-136, 2019 | 51 | 2019 |
| Pulling human rights back in? Local authorities, international law and the reception of undocumented migrants M Baumgärtel, B Oomen The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 51 (2), 172-191, 2019 | 47 | 2019 |
| Transnational city networks and migration policy B Oomen, MGN Baumgärtel, E Durmus | 44 | 2018 |
| Rights for others: the slow home-coming of human rights in the Netherlands B Oomen Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 44 | 2014 |
| Human rights practice and the city: A case study of York (UK) E Graham, P Gready, E Hoddy, R Pennington Global Urban Justice: The Rise of Human Rights Cities, 179-198, 2016 | 35 | 2016 |
| Justice mechanisms and the question of legitimacy: The Example of Rwanda's multi-layered justice mechanisms B Oomen Building a Future on Peace and Justice: Studies on Transitional Justice …, 2009 | 35 | 2009 |
