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 11, 2011 to January 10, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	224	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
2	158	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
3	147	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	114	Rome I’s Rules on Party Autonomy for Choice of Law: A U.S. Perspective  Ronald A. Brand,  University of Pittsburgh - School of Law
5	81	Theories of Contract Law and Enforcing Promissory Morality: Comments on Charles Fried  Brian Bix,  University of Minnesota Law School
6	72	The Holmesian Bad Man Flubs His Entrance  Barbara H. Fried,  Stanford Law School
7	68	Subprime Mortgages and the Case for Broadening the Duty of Good Faith  Chunlin Leonhard,  Loyola University New Orleans College 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	59	Three Letters that Move the Markets: Credit Ratings between Market Information and Legal Regulation  Ulrich G. Schroeter,  University of Freiburg (Germany) - Faculty of Law
10	55	Consumer Protection and the Islamic Law of Contract  Muhammad Akbar Khan,  International Islamic University

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
November 11, 2011 to January 10, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	114	Rome I’s Rules on Party Autonomy for Choice of Law: A U.S. Perspective  Ronald A. Brand,  University of Pittsburgh - School of Law
2	72	The Holmesian Bad Man Flubs His Entrance  Barbara H. Fried,  Stanford Law School
3	68	Subprime Mortgages and the Case for Broadening the Duty of Good Faith  Chunlin Leonhard,  Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
4	55	Consumer Protection and the Islamic Law of Contract  Muhammad Akbar Khan,  International Islamic University
5	38	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	36	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
7	30	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
8	29	Full Harmonization in European Private Law: A Two-Track Concept  Vanessa Mak,  Tilburg University - Tilburg Law School
9	27	A Dual Approach to Contract Remedies  Michael D. Knobler,  Yale University - Law School
10	23	Interactive Contracting in Social Networks  Mark Chen,  Cornell Law Review

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