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 
November 25, 2011 to January 24, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	352	The Scope and Implications of Stern v. Marshall, 131 S. Ct. (2011)  Michael St. Patrick Baxter, Elizabeth Gibson, Randal C. Picker, Patrick Vance,  Covington & Burling LLP, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law, University of Chicago - Law School, Jones Walker - New Orleans Office
2	270	Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2011: Twenty-Fifth Annual Survey  Symeon C. Symeonides,  Willamette University - College of Law
3	231	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
4	198	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
5	160	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	118	Bankruptcy, Backwards: The Problem of Quasi-Sovereign Debt  Anna Gelpern,  American University Washington College of Law
7	92	Theories of Contract Law and Enforcing Promissory Morality: Comments on Charles Fried  Brian Bix,  University of Minnesota Law School
8	90	Competition and Consumer Protection: A Behavioral Economics Account  Oren Bar-Gill,  New York University (NYU) - School of Law
9	67	How to Judge Shari'a Contracts: A Guide to Islamic Marriage Agreements in American Courts  Nathan B. Oman,  William & Mary Law School
10	67	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

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
November 25, 2011 to January 24, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	160	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	67	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
3	60	Consumer Protection and the Islamic Law of Contract  Muhammad Akbar Khan,  International Islamic University
4	50	A Dual Approach to Contract Remedies  Michael D. Knobler,  Yale University - Law School
5	48	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
6	39	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	38	Judging Lite: How Arbitrators Use and Create Precedent  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
8	38	Full Harmonization in European Private Law: A Two-Track Concept  Vanessa Mak,  Tilburg University - Tilburg Law Schoo
9	37	Private Law and Moral Practices Part 1: Contract  Prince Saprai, George Letsas,  University College London - Faculty of Laws , University College London - Faculty of Laws
10	34	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

 

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