Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Network

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 
October 27, 2011 to December 26, 2011

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	212	Incentive Contracting  Ralph C. Nash,  George Washington University - Law School,  Date posted to database: September 16, 2011  Last Revised: September 26, 2011
2	195	Endogenous Institutions: Law as a Coordinating Device  Gillian Hadfield, Barry R. Weingast,  USC Law School and Department of Economics, Stanford University - The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace,  Date posted to database: November 24, 2011  Last Revised: December 8, 2011
3	176	How to Opt into the Common European Sales Law? Brief Comments on the Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation  Martijn W. Hesselink,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
4	142	Political Risk and Sovereign Debt Contracts  Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati, Eric A. Posner,  New York University (NYU) - School of Law, Duke University - School of Law, University of Chicago - Law School
5	88	Introduction: The Three and a Half Minute Transaction: Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design  G. Mitu Gulati, Robert E. Scott,  Duke University - School of Law, Columbia University - Law School
6	78	Theories of Contract Law and Enforcing Promissory Morality: Comments on Charles Fried  Brian Bix,  University of Minnesota Law School
7	65	Credit on Wheels: The Law and Business of Auto Title Lending  Jim Hawkins,  University of Houston Law Center
8	63	Beyond the First Amendment: Shaping the Contours of Commercial Speech in Video Games, Virtual Worlds and Social Media  Jon Garon,  NKU Chase College of Law
9	60	Subprime Mortgages and the Case for Broadening the Duty of Good Faith  Chunlin Leonhard,  Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
10	59	The Holmesian Bad Man Flubs His Entrance  Barbara H. Fried,  Stanford Law School

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
October 29, 2011 to December 28, 2011

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	179	How to Opt into the Common European Sales Law? Brief Comments on the Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation  Martijn W. Hesselink,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
2	71	Contract Versus Statute in Internet Governance  Lee A. Bygrave,  University of Oslo
3	60	Subprime Mortgages and the Case for Broadening the Duty of Good Faith  Chunlin Leonhard,  Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
4	59	The Holmesian Bad Man Flubs His Entrance  Barbara H. Fried,  Stanford Law School
5	58	Promissory Autonomy, Imperfect Courts, and the Immorality of the Expectation Damages Default  George G. Triantis,  Stanford Law School
6	49	Consumer Protection and the Islamic Law of Contract  Muhammad Akbar Khan,  International Islamic University
7	46	Will Firms Consider a European Optional Instrument in Contract Law?  Gary Low,  Maastricht European Private Law Institute
8	33	Acquis Principles  Hans Christoph Grigoleit, Lovro Tomasic,  Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich - Faculty of Law, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich - Faculty of Law
9	30	Mandatory Law: Fundamental Principles  Hans Christoph Grigoleit,  Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich - Faculty of Law
10	29	In-House Counsel’s Role in the Structuring of Mortgage-Backed Securities  Shaun Barnes, Kathleen G. Cully, Steven L. Schwarcz,  Duke University - School of Law, Kathleen G. Cully PLLC, Duke University - School of Law

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