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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 
November 4, 2011 to January 3, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	213	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	146	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	81	Theories of Contract Law and Enforcing Promissory Morality: Comments on Charles Fried  Brian Bix,  University of Minnesota Law School
4	65	Credit on Wheels: The Law and Business of Auto Title Lending  Jim Hawkins,  University of Houston Law Center
5	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
6	61	The Holmesian Bad Man Flubs His Entrance  Barbara H. Fried,  Stanford Law School
7	60	Subprime Mortgages and the Case for Broadening the Duty of Good Faith  Chunlin Leonhard,  Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
8	58	Promissory Autonomy, Imperfect Courts, and the Immorality of the Expectation Damages Default  George G. Triantis,  Stanford Law School
9	51	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	50	Consumer Protection and the Islamic Law of Contract  Muhammad Akbar Khan,  International Islamic University

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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
November 4, 2011 to January 3, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	61	The Holmesian Bad Man Flubs His Entrance  Barbara H. Fried,  Stanford Law School
2	60	Subprime Mortgages and the Case for Broadening the Duty of Good Faith  Chunlin Leonhard,  Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
3	58	Promissory Autonomy, Imperfect Courts, and the Immorality of the Expectation Damages Default  George G. Triantis,  Stanford Law School
4	50	Consumer Protection and the Islamic Law of Contract  Muhammad Akbar Khan,  International Islamic University
5	48	Will Firms Consider a European Optional Instrument in Contract Law?  Gary Low,  Maastricht European Private Law Institute
6	35	Acquis Principles  Hans Christoph Grigoleit, Lovro Tomasic,  Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich - Faculty of Law, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich - Faculty of Law
7	32	Mandatory Law: Fundamental Principles  Hans Christoph Grigoleit,  Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich - Faculty of Law
8	32	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
9	29	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
10	27	Full Harmonization in European Private Law: A Two-Track Concept  Vanessa Mak,  Tilburg University - Tilburg Law School

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