Weekly Top Ten

Technology and economics again dominate the top spots in this week's Top 10.  Following are the top ten most-downloaded recent papers from the SSRN Journal of Contract and Commercial Law for the 60 days ending September 24.

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

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

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

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

5 Payment Wars: The Merchant-Bank Struggle for Control of Payment Systems, Adam Levitin (Independent).

6  The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives, David A. Skeel (Penn) & Frank Partnoy (San Diego).

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

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

9  Illuminating Secrecy: A New Economic Analysis of Confidential Settlements, Scott A. Moss (Marquette).

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

[Frank Snyder]