Weekly Top Ten from the Social Science Research Network

No really hot scholarship --based on downloads, anyway -- this week.  Contracts scholars, this is your chance to break into the big time.

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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 
October 21, 2010 to December 20, 2010

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	193	Choice of Forum Provisions in Intra-Corporate Litigation: Mandatory and Elective Approaches (The 2010 Pileggi Lecture)  Joseph Grundfest,  Stanford University Law School,  Date posted to database: October 11, 2010  Last Revised: October 27, 2010
2	192	Party Autonomy in Rome I and IΙ from a Comparative Perspective  Symeon C. Symeonides,  Willamette University - College of Law,  Date posted to database: October 25, 2010  Last Revised: October 26, 2010
3	192	The Gold Clause Cases and Constitutional Necessity  Gerard N. Magliocca,  Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis,  Date posted to database: November 17, 2010  Last Revised: November 21, 2010
4	191	Suing the Government as a 'Joint Employer' - Evolving Pathologies of the Blended Workforce  Steven L. Schooner, Collin D. Swan,  George Washington University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School,  Date posted to database: October 21, 2010  Last Revised: November 16, 2010
5	151	Divided Loyalties: The Attorney’s Role in Bankruptcy Reaffirmations  Gregory M. Duhl,  William Mitchell College of Law,  Date posted to database: November 17, 2010  Last Revised: November 17, 2010
6	140	The Regulation of Surrogate Motherhood in Greece  Aristides N. Hatzis,  University of Athens - Department of Philosophy & History of Science,  Date posted to database: October 10, 2010  Last Revised: October 10, 2010
7	137	Access or Expectation: The Test for Fiduciary Accountability  Robert Flannigan,  University of Saskatchewan,  Date posted to database: October 29, 2010  Last Revised: December 17, 2010
8	127	When Do Fiduciary Duties Arise?  James J. Edelman,  University of Oxford - Faculty of Law,  Date posted to database: October 26, 2010  Last Revised: November 13, 2010
9	104	Contract, Uncertainty and Innovation  Ronald J. Gilson, Charles F. Sabel, Robert E. Scott,  Stanford Law School, Columbia University - Law School, Columbia University - Law School,  Date posted to database: November 20, 2010  Last Revised: December 3, 2010
10	91	Structure and Reform of Corporate Governance in the United Kingdom in Relation to the Shareholder Versus the Stakeholder Theory  Rohit Arora,  Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN,  Date posted to database: September 29, 2010  Last Revised: September 29, 2010

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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic) 
October 21, 2010 to December 20, 2010

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	88	Strategic Default: The Popularization of a Debate Among Contract Scholars  Meredith R. Miller,  Touro College - Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center,  Date posted to database: October 3, 2010  Last Revised: November 17, 2010
2	86	The English vs. The American Rule on Attorneys Fees: An Empirical Study of Attorney Fee Clauses in Publicly-Held Companies’ Contracts  Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller,  Cornell University - School of Law, New York University (NYU) - School of Law,  Date posted to database: November 11, 2010  Last Revised: November 15, 2010
3	60	Origin Myths, Contracts, and the Hunt for Pari Passu  Mark C. Weidemaier, Robert E. Scott, G. Mitu Gulati,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law, Columbia University - Law School, Duke University - School of Law,  Date posted to database: July 17, 2010  Last Revised: November 10, 2010
4	50	An Optional Instrument on EU Contract Law: Could it Increase Legal Certainty and Foster Cross-Border Trade?  Martijn W. Hesselink,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL),  Date posted to database: October 23, 2010  Last Revised: December 15, 2010
5	41	An Optional Contract Law for Europe? (Rote Karte oder grünes Licht für den Blue Button) (German)  Walter Doralt,  Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law,  Date posted to database: November 11, 2010  Last Revised: November 11, 2010
6	36	Rudolf Von Jhering’s Influence on Karl Llewellyn  Robert Whitman, Julie E. Wynns,  University of Connecticut School of Law, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN,  Date posted to database: October 1, 2010  Last Revised: October 1, 2010
7	32	The Double Soul of Promissory Estoppel - A Comparative View  Paolo Pardolesi,  Università degli Studi di Bari - Faculty of Law,  Date posted to database: November 5, 2010  Last Revised: December 8, 2010
8	31	How Organisational and Structural Weaknesses Impacted the Harmonisation Process and What it Implies for European Private Law (Strukturelle Schwächen in der Europäisierung des Privatrechts – Eine Prozessanalyse der jüngeren Entwicklungen) (German)  Walter Doralt,  Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law,  Date posted to database: November 11, 2010  Last Revised: November 11, 2010
9	21	Arbitration's Suspect Status  Hiro N. Aragaki,  Fordham University - Fordham University Schools of Business,  Date posted to database: November 29, 2010  Last Revised: December 2, 2010
10	19	Autonomy and Paternalism from a Common Law Perspective: Setting Aside Disadvantageous Transactions  Stephen Michael Waddams,  University of Toronto - Faculty of Law,  Date posted to database: October 25, 2010  Last Revised: October 25, 2010

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