Weekly Top 10

Following are the top ten most-downloaded papers from the SSRN Journal of Contract and Commercial Law for the 60 days ending January 22, 2006.

1  Law and the Rise of the Firm, Henry Hansmann (Yale), Reinier Kraakman (Harvard) & Richard C. Squire (Yale).

2  How Law Affects Lending, Rainer F.H. Haselmann (Leipzig-Business), Katharina Pistor (Columbia) & Vikrant Vig (Columbia-Business).

3  The Strategy of Boilerplate, Robert B. Ahdieh (Emory).

4  Beyond Reason and Rational Frogs: Intuitional Business Ethics in a Scientific World, Jeffrey M. Lipshaw (Indiana-Indianapolis).

5  The Return of the Twenty Bishops: Toward a Subjective Theory of Contract Formation, Lawrence M. Solan (Brooklyn).

6  Do Courts Matter? Rental Markets and the Law, Pablo Casas-Arce (Oxford-Economics) & Albert Saiz (Penn-Business).

7  Signals, Assent and Internet Contracting, Juliet Moringiello (Widener).

8  A Bridge, a Tax Revolt, and the Struggle to Industrialize: The Story and Legacy of Rockingham County v. Luten Bridge Co., Barak D. Richman (Duke), Jordi Weinstock (Duke) & Jason Mehta (Harvard).

9 Penalties and Optimality in Financial Contracts: Taking Stock, Michel A. Robe (American-Business), Eva-Maria Steiger (Humboldt-Business) & Pierre-Armand Michel (Liege-Management).

10  Diversity of Contract Law and the European Internal Market, Jan M. Smits (Maastricht).

[Frank Snyder]