Weekly Top 10

After a lengthy hiatus and with a semester still fairly new, here are the top ten most-downloaded new papers from the SSRN Journal of Contract and Commercial Law for the 60 days ending September 21, 2008.

1 Freedom of Contract, David E. Bernstein (Geo. Mason).

2  Contract Enforcement and Institutions Among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie, Avner Greif (Stanford-Econ)

3  Consent in Contract Law, Brian Bix (Minnesota).

4  Law's Illusion: Scientific Jurisprudence and the Struggle with Judgment, Jeffrey M. Lipshaw (Suffolk).

5 The British Approach to Consumer Financial Disputes: A Model for Reform in Insurance Law and Beyond, Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota).

6 Resolving the Foreclosure Crisis: Mortgage Modification in Bankruptcy, Adam Levitin (Georgetown) & Joshua Goodman (Columbia-Econ).

7 The Right Not to Be a Genetic Parent?, I. Glenn Cohen (Harvard).

8 Intellectual Property and Restrictive Covenants, Orly Lobel (San Diego).

9  Spanish and International Judicial Interpretation of CISG, Anselmo M. Martinez Canellas (Islas Baleares).

10 To Err is Human, to Moo Bovine: The Rose of Aberlone Story, Norman Otto Stockmeyer (Thos. Cooley).

[Frank Snyder]