Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Network

Brent White (pictured) has catapulted to the top, debuting at #1 with Beyond Guilt on both lists and already #7 on the hallowed SSRN All Time Top 10 List in Law & Society: Contracts!!  Congratulations!!  Meanwhile, Walking Away is also racking up the downloads.  Brent White is the Lady Gaga of contracts scholarship!!!

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal
March 13, 2010 to May 12, 2010

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	588	Beyond Guilt in the Housing Crisis: The Morality of Strategic Default Brent T. White University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
2	294	The Shadow of State Secrets Laura Donohue Georgetown University Law Center
3	282	A Myth Deconstructed: The 'Emperor’s New Clothes' on the Low Profit Limited Liability Company Daniel S. Kleinberger William Mitchell College of Law
4	209	Virtue and Contract Law Chapin Cimino Drexel University - Earle Mack School of Law
5	201	Walking Away: The Emotional Drivers of Strategic Default Brent T. White University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
6	191	The Failure of Mandated Disclosure Omri Ben-Shahar & Carl E. Schneider University of Chicago Law School, University of Michigan Law School
7	156	The Right to Withdraw in Contract Law Omri Ben-Shahar & Eric A. Posner University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago Law School
8	145	A Critical Theory of Private Equity Lee Harris University of Memphis - Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
9	138	In Defense of Bailouts Adam J. Levitin Georgetown University Law Center
10	131	Consent to Retaliation: A Civil Recourse Theory of Contractual Liability Nathan B. Oman William & Mary Law School

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)
March 13, 2010 to May 12, 2010

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	588	Beyond Guilt in the Housing Crisis: The Morality of Strategic Default Brent T. White University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
2	282	A Myth Deconstructed: The 'Emperor’s New Clothes' on the Low Profit Limited Liability Company Daniel S. Kleinberger William Mitchell College of Law
3	249	Private and Public Construction in Modern China Gregory M. Stein Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law
4	200	Walking Away: The Emotional Drivers of Strategic Default Brent T. White University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law,
5	190	The Failure of Mandated Disclosure Omri Ben-Shahar & Carl E. Schneider University of Chicago Law School, University of Michigan Law School
6	188	Veil-Piercing Peter B. Oh University of Pittsburgh - School of Law
7	156	The Right to Withdraw in Contract Law Omri Ben-Shahar & Eric A. Posner University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago Law School
8	84	Common Frame of Reference and UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts: Coexistence, Competition, or Overkill of Soft Law? Stefan Vogenauer University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
9	64	Globalization of Law as Documented in the Law on International Sales of Goods Harry M. Flechtner University of Pittsburgh - School of Law
10	63	When the Law is Understood - L3C No Daniel S. Kleinberger & J. William Callison William Mitchell College of Law, Faegre & Benson LLP

[Jeremy Telman]