Weekly Top 10

Two new papers and one returnee join this week's Top Ten.  Following are the ten most-downloaded new papers from the SSRN Journal of Contract and Commercial Law for the sixty days ending April 23, 2006.  (Last week's rank in parentheses.)

1 (1) Emerging Policy and Practice Issues (2005), Steven L. Schooner & Christopher R. Yukins (Geo. Washington).

2 (2) Contract Law Theory, Brian Bix (Minnesota).

3 (3) The Best Puffery Article Ever, David A. Hoffman (Temple).

4 (5) Contract Formation Issues in Employment Arbitration, Richard A. Bales (Northern Kentucky).

5 (-) Corporation and Contract, Henry Hansmann (Yale).

6 (8) The Employment Due Process Protocol at Ten: Twenty Unresolved Issues, and a Focus on Conflicts of Interest, Richard A. Bales (Northern Kentucky).

7 (9) Modularity in Contracts: Boilerplate and Information Flow, Henry E. Smith (Yale).

8 (-) Constructing a Bid Protest Process: Choices Every Procurement Challenge System Must Make, Daniel I.. Gordon (GAO).

9 (10) Creative Commons: A Skeptical View of a Worthy Pursuit, Niva Elkin-Koren (Haifa).

10 (-) Legal Default Rules: The Case of Wrongful Discharge Laws, W. Bentley MacLeod (Columbia-Economics) & Voraprapa Nakavachara (Southern Cal-Economics).

[Frank Snyder]