| Wall street on trial: A corrupted state? J O'Brien John Wiley & Sons, 2005 | 59 | 2005 |
| Redesigning financial regulation: the politics of enforcement J O'Brien John Wiley & Sons, 2006 | 44 | 2006 |
| The Oxford handbook of the corporation T Clarke, J O'Brien, C O'Kelley Oxford University Press, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| Governing the corporation: Regulation and corporate governance in an age of scandal and global markets J O'Brien John Wiley & Sons, 2005 | 39 | 2005 |
| Engineering a financial bloodbath: how sub-prime securitization destroyed the legitimacy of financial capitalism J O'brien World Scientific, 2009 | 36 | 2009 |
| The future of financial regulation IG MacNeil, J O'Brien Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010 | 34 | 2010 |
| Barriers to entry: foreign direct investment and the regulation of sovereign wealth funds J O'brien Int'l Law. 42, 1231, 2008 | 30 | 2008 |
| What future for disclosure as a regulatory technique? Lessons from Behavioural Decision Theory and the Global Financial Crisis E Avgouleas The future of financial regulation, 205-26, 2010 | 26 | 2010 |
| Killing Finucane: murder in defence of the realm J O'Brien Gill, 2005 | 25 | 2005 |
| Integrity, risk and accountability in capital markets: regulating culture J O'Brien, G Gilligan Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
| General Amin and the Uganda Asians: Doing the Unthinkable J O'brien The Round Table 63 (249), 91-104, 1973 | 22 | 1973 |
| The common link in failures and scandals at the world's leading banks J O'Brien, O Dixon Seattle UL Rev. 36, 941, 2012 | 18 | 2012 |
| The facade of enforcement: Goldman Sachs, negotiated prosecution, and the politics of blame J O’Brien How they got away with it: With collar criminals and the financial meltdown …, 2013 | 17 | 2013 |
| Private equity, corporate governance and the dynamics of capital market regulation J O'Brien World Scientific, 2007 | 16 | 2007 |
| Trust, accountability and purpose: The regulation of corporate governance J O'Brien Elements in Corporate Governance, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| The triumph, tragedy and lost legacy of James M Landis: a life on fire J O'Brien Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014 | 15 | 2014 |
| The politics of enforcement: Eliot Spitzer, state-federal relations, and the redesign of financial regulation J O'Brien Publius: The Journal of Federalism 35 (3), 449-466, 2005 | 15 | 2005 |
| Ethics, Probity, and the Changing Governance of Wall Street: Cure or Remission? J O'BRIEN Public Integrity 7 (1), 43-56, 2004 | 15 | 2004 |
| Brown Britons: the crisis of the Ugandan Asians J O'Brien (No Title), 1972 | 15 | 1972 |
| Culture wars: Rate manipulation, institutional corruption, and the lost normative foundations of market conduct regulation J O'Brien Seattle UL Rev. 37, 375, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
