Weekly Top Ten

Downloads slow down a good deal during the semester break, and few new papers get posted.  Here are the top ten most-downloaded papers from the SSRN Journal of Contract and Commercial Law for the 60 days ending January 9. 2006.

1  One-Sided Contracts in Competitive Consumer Markets, Lucian Arye Bebchuk (Harvard) & Richard A. Posner (7th Circuit).

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

6  Canadian Jurisprudence and the Uniform Application of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, Peter Mazzacano (Osgoode Hall).

7 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).

8-t  The Frontiers of Contract Law - Contract Formation and Mistake in Cyberspace - The Singapore Experience, Andrew Phang (Vienna U of Economics).

8-t  Signals, Assent and Internet Contracting, Juliet Moringiello (Widener).

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

[Frank Snyder]