Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Network

A hit!  A palpable hit!  At the top of the SSRN list, we have a new article that has vaulted to #1 out of nowhere.  312 downloaders can't be wrong!

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 
November 18, 2011 to January 17, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	312	The Scope and Implications of Stern v. Marshall, 131 S. Ct. (2011)  Michael St. Patrick Baxter, Elizabeth Gibson, Randal C. Picker, R. Patrick Vance,  Covington & Burling LLP, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law, University of Chicago - Law School, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN
2	229	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
3	187	In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt Homeowners  Melissa B. Jacoby, Daniel T. McCue, Eric S. Belsky,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University
4	168	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	145	The Rome I Regulation Rules on Party Autonomy for Choice of Law: A U.S. Perspective  Ronald A. Brand,  University of Pittsburgh - School of Law
6	88	Theories of Contract Law and Enforcing Promissory Morality: Comments on Charles Fried  Brian Bix,  University of Minnesota Law School
7	69	Competition and Consumer Protection: A Behavioral Economics Account  Oren Bar-Gill,  New York University (NYU) - School of Law
8	65	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	64	How to Judge Shari'a Contracts: A Guide to Islamic Marriage Agreements in American Courts  Nathan B. Oman,  William & Mary Law School
10	61	Bankruptcy, Backwards: The Problem of Quasi-Sovereign Debt  Anna Gelpern,  American University Washington College of Law

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
November 18, 2011 to January 17, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	145	The Rome I Regulation Rules on Party Autonomy for Choice of Law: A U.S. Perspective  Ronald A. Brand,  University of Pittsburgh - School of Law
2	58	Consumer Protection and the Islamic Law of Contract  Muhammad Akbar Khan,  International Islamic University
3	58	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
4	43	Das neue Internationale Privatrecht der Volksrepublik China: Nach den Steinen tastend den Fluss überqueren (The New Private International Law of the People's Republic of China: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones)  Knut Benjamin Pissler,  Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
5	42	A Dual Approach to Contract Remedies  Michael D. Knobler,  Yale University - Law School
6	38	Non-State Law in the (Proposed) Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Contracts  Genevieve Saumier, Lauro Gama,  McGill University - Faculty of Law, PUC-Rio,
7	37	Full Harmonization in European Private Law: A Two-Track Concept  Vanessa Mak,  Tilburg University - Tilburg Law School
8	29	Private Law and Moral Practices Part 1: Contract  Prince Saprai, George Letsas,  University College London - Faculty of Laws , University College London - Faculty of Laws
9	28	Beyond Ex Post Expediency - An Ex Ante View of Rescission and Restitution  Richard R. W. Brooks, Alexander Stremitzer,  Yale University - Law School, UCLA School of Law
10	25	Interactive Contracting in Social Networks  Mark Chen,  Cornell Law Review

 

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