Weekly Top Ten

There’s a slew of new papers breaking into this week’s Top Ten.  Following are the ten most-downloaded papers from the SSRN Journal of Contract and Commercial Law for the 60 days ending November 27, 2005.  (Last week's ranking in parentheses.)

1 (2) Katrina's Continuing Impact on Procurement - Emergency Procurement Powers in H.R. 3766, Christopher R. Yukins & Joshua I. Schwartz (Geo. Washington).

2 (4) In Memoriam, John Cibinic, Jr., Ralph C. Nash (Geo. Washington), et al.

3 (5) Rethinking Spyware: Questioning the Propriety of Contractual Consent to Online Surveillance, Wayne Barnes (Texas Wesleyan).

4 (9) Taking Information Seriously: Misrepresentation and Nondisclosure in Contract Law and Elsewhere, Richard Craswell (Stanford).

5 (8) Contracting in the Shadow of the Law, Nicola Gennaioli (IIES-Stockholm).

6 (10) Effective vs. Nominal Valuations in Venture Capital Investing, Michael Woronoff (Proskauer Rose) &  Jonathan Rosen (Shelter Capital).

7 (-) From St. Ives to Cyberspace: The Modern Distortion of the Medieval 'Law Merchant,' Stephen E. Sachs (Yale).

8 (-) An Embedded Options Theory of Indefinite Contracts, George S. Geis (Alabama).

9 (-) Hurricane Katrina's Tangled Impact on U.S. Procurement, Christopher R. Yukins (Geo. Washington).

10 (-) One-Sided Contracts in Competitive Consumer Markets, Lucian Arye Bebchuk (Harvard) & Richard A. Posner (Chicago).