Weekly Top Ten

The top three slots remain the same in the Weekly Top 10, but a new paper from Barak Richman and Jeffrey Macher debuts with a bullet in the fourth slot.  Following are the top ten most-downloaded new papers from the SSRN Journal of Contract and Commercial Law for the 60 days ending Sunday, September 3, 2006.  (Last week's ranking in parentheses.)

1 (1) Technoconsen(t)sus, Andrea M. Matwyshyn (Florida).

2 (2) The Law and Economics of Contracts, Avery W. Katz (Columbia), Benjamin E. Hermalin (Cal Berkeley-Economics) & Richard Craswell (Stanford).

3 (3) Terms of Use, Mark A. Lemley (Stanford).

4 (-) Transaction Cost Economics: An Assessment of Empirical Research in the Social Sciences, Barak D. Richman (Duke) & Jeffrey Macher (Georgetown-Business).

5 (4) Rise of the Financial Advisers: An Empirical Study of the Division of Professional Fees in Large Bankruptcies, Lynn M. LoPucki & Joseph W. Doherty (UCLA).

6 (7) The Strange Death of Academic Commercial Law, Larry T. Garvin (Ohio State).

7 (8) Bankruptcy, Creditor Protection and Debt Contracts, Stefano Rossi & Nicola Gennaioli (Stockholm-Economics).

8 (5) A Coasean Analysis of Marketing, Eric Goldman (Santa Clara).

9 (6) Between Rights and Contract: Arbitration Agreements and Non-Compete Covenants as a Hybrid Form of Employment Law, Cynthia L. Estlund (NYU).

10 (-) The Use of MTAs to Control Commercialization of Stem Cell Diagnostics and Therapeutics. Sean M. O'Connor (U Washington).

[Frank Snyder]