Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Network

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)

October 31, 2010 to December 30, 2010

TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 

 

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	201	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
2	194	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
3	193	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	157	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
5	148	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
6	148	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
7	137	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
8	126	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
9	98	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	96	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

 

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)
October 31, 2010 to December 30, 2010

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	91	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	87	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	55	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
4	49	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
5	38	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
6	36	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
7	35	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	26	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
9	20	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
10	18	Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Home Mortgage Documents Interpreted as Nonrecourse Debt (with Poetic Comments Lifted from Carl Sandburg) John Mixon, University of Houston - Law Center, Date posted to database: November 19, 2010 Last Revised: November 19, 2010

 

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