Weekly Top Ten from the Social Science Research Network

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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 
November 19, 2010 to January 18, 2011

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	636	Mortgage Servicing  Adam J. Levitin, Tara Twomey,  Georgetown University - Law Center, National Consumer Law Center,  Date posted to database: December 18, 2010  Last Revised: January 17, 2011
2	345	Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2010: Twenty-Fourth Annual Survey  Symeon C. Symeonides,  Willamette University - College of Law,  Date posted to database: January 11, 2011  Last Revised: January 11, 2011
3	213	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
4	197	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
5	171	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
6	166	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
7	139	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
8	133	A Collaborative Model of Offshore Legal Outsourcing  Cassandra Burke Robertson,  Case Western Reserve University - School of Law,  Date posted to database: November 9, 2010  Last Revised: November 9, 2010
9	114	Does Disclosure Matter?  Florencia Marotta-Wurgler,  New York University (NYU) - School of Law,  Date posted to database: November 24, 2010  Last Revised: December 7, 2010
10	109	The Uncorporation and the Unraveling of 'Nexus of Contracts' Theory  Grant M. Hayden, Matthew T. Bodie,  Hofstra University - School of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law,  Date posted to database: December 10, 2010  Last Revised: December 15, 2010

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
November 19, 2010 to January 18, 2011

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	344	Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2010: Twenty-Fourth Annual Survey  Symeon C. Symeonides,  Willamette University - College of Law,  Date posted to database: January 11, 2011  Last Revised: January 11, 2011
2	93	Pregnant Man?: A Conversation  Darren Rosenblum, Noa Ben-Asher, Mary Anne Case, Elizabeth F. Emens, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Vivian M. Gutierrez, Lisa Chiyemi Ikemoto, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, Kimberly Mutcherson, Peter Siegelman, Beth Jones,  Pace Law School, Pace University - School of Law, University of Chicago Law School, Columbia Law School, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, Davis - School of Law, University of Iowa College of Law, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN, Rutgers School of Law-Camden, University of Connecticut - School of Law, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN,  Date posted to database: December 17, 2010  Last Revised: January 5, 2011
3	92	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
4	62	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	60	The Role of Dynamic Renegotiation and Asymmetric Information in Financial Contracting  Michael R. Roberts,  University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School - Finance Department,  Date posted to database: December 31, 2010  Last Revised: December 31, 2010
6	59	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
7	40	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
8	39	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
9	32	A Toolbox for European Judges  Martijn W. Hesselink,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL),  Date posted to database: December 17, 2010  Last Revised: December 17, 2010
10	30	Arbitration's Suspect Status  Hiro N. Aragaki,  Fordham University - Fordham University Schools of Business,  Date posted to database: November 29, 2010  Last Revised: December 28, 2010

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