Weekly Top Ten

Following are the Top 10 most-downloaded papers from the SSRN Journal of Contract and Commercial Law for the 60 days ending November 7, 2010.  (Last week's ranking in parentheses.)

1 (1)  Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System's Land Title Theory, Christopher Lewis Peterson (Utah).

2 (2)  Good Faith and Contract Interpretation: A Law and Economics Perspective, Simone M. Sepe (Arizona).

3 (3)  The Need for Insurance Policy Transparency, Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota).

4 (7)  Choice of Forum Provisions in Intra-Corporate Litigation: Mandatory and Elective Approaches, Joseph Grundfest (Stanford).

5 (6)  Taking Punitive Damages Seriously: Why a French Court Did Not Recognize An American Decision Awarding Punitive Damages and Why it Should Have, François-Xavier Licari (Metz).

6 (5)  Misbehavioral Economics: The Case Against Behavioral Antitrust, Joshua D. Wright (Geo. Mason) & Judd E. Stone (Int’l Center for Law & Economics).

7 (8)  A Moral Rights Theory of the Private Law, Andrew S. Gold (DePaul).

8 (9)  Contractors and the Ultimate Sacrifice, Steven L. Schooner & Collin D. Swan (Geo. Washington).

9 (–)  Should Consumers Be Permitted to Waive Products Liability? Product Safety, Private Contracts, and Adverse Selection, Albert H. Choi (Virginia) & Kathryn E. Spier (Harvard).

10 (10)  Vertical Restraints, Dealers with Power, and Antitrust Policy, Herbert J. Hovenkamp (Iowa).

FGS