| Veiled Women and the Affect of Religion in Democracy S Motha Journal of law and Society 34 (1), 139-162, 2007 | 95 | 2007 |
| The Failure of ‘Postcolonial’Sovereignty in Australia S Motha Australian Feminist Law Journal 22 (1), 107-125, 2005 | 48 | 2005 |
| The sovereign event in a nation's law S Motha Law and Critique 13, 311-338, 2002 | 47 | 2002 |
| Begging to be black S Motha Theory, culture & society 27 (7-8), 285-305, 2010 | 44 | 2010 |
| Archiving sovereignty: Law, history, violence S Motha University of Michigan Press, 2018 | 35 | 2018 |
| Mabo: Encountering the Epistemic Limit of the Recognition of'Difference' S Motha Griffith L. Rev. 7, 79, 1998 | 34 | 1998 |
| Reconciliation as domination S Motha Law and the Politics of Reconciliation, 69-92, 2007 | 32 | 2007 |
| Law, memory, violence: uncovering the counter-archive S Motha, H van Rijswijk Routledge, 2016 | 29 | 2016 |
| Law, ethics and the utopian end of human rights S Motha, T Zartaloudis Social & Legal Studies 12 (2), 243-268, 2003 | 19 | 2003 |
| Guantanamo Bay, abandoned being and the constitution of jurisdiction S Motha Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction, 75-95, 2007 | 18 | 2007 |
| Mabo: Encountering the Epistemic Limit of the Recognition of Difference’(1998) S Motha Griffith Law Review 7, 79, 0 | 15 | |
| Archiving colonial sovereignty: from ubuntu to a jurisprudence of sacrifice S Motha SA Publiekreg= SA Public Law 24 (2), 297-327, 2009 | 13 | 2009 |
| Deposing sovereignty after Mabo S Motha, C Perrin Law and Critique 13 (3), 231-231, 2002 | 13 | 2002 |
| Introduction: A counter-archival sense S Motha, H van Rijswijk Law, Memory, Violence, 1-15, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| A New Nomos Offshore and Bodies as their Own Signs S Jones, S Motha Law & Literature 27 (2), 253-278, 2015 | 11 | 2015 |
| Liberal cults, suicide bombers, and other theological dilemmas S Motha Law, culture and the humanities 5 (2), 228-246, 2009 | 11 | 2009 |
| As If-Law, History, Ontology S Motha UC Irvine L. Rev. 5, 327, 2015 | 10 | 2015 |
| Colonial sovereignty, forms of life and liminal beings in South Africa S Motha Agamben and colonialism, 128-151, 2012 | 10 | 2012 |
| Archiving Sovereignty: Law S Motha History, Violence 99, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Reading Modern Law R Buchanan, S Motha, S Pahuja Taylor & Francis., 2012 | 9 | 2012 |
