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 
April 19, 2012 to June 18, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	190	The Common European Sales Law (CESL) Beyond Party Choice  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)
2	180	Reforming the Short-Term Funding Markets  Morgan Ricks,  Harvard University Law School
3	169	The Irony of Privacy Class Action Litigation  Eric Goldman,  Santa Clara University - School of Law
4	149	A Minor Problem with Arbitration: A Proposal for Arbitration Agreements Contained in Employment Contracts of Minors  Matthew Miller-Novak, Richard A. Bales,  Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northern Kentucky University - Salmon P. Chase College of Law
5	142	Transaction Simplicity  Stephen J. Lubben,  Seton Hall University - School of Law
6	140	The Litigation Finance Contract  Maya Steinitz,  University of Iowa - College of Law
7	114	Conceptualizing Contractual Interpretation  Alan Schwartz, Joel Watson,  Yale Law School, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics
8	86	An Empirical Study of Predispute Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in Social Media Terms of Service Agreements  Michael L. Rustad, Richard Buckingham, Diane D'Angelo, Katherine Durlacher,  Suffolk University Law School, Suffolk University - Law School, Suffolk University - Law School, Suffolk University - Law School
9	82	Legal Epistemology in the Restatement (3d) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment  Lionel Smith,  McGill University - Faculty of Law - Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law
10	82	How Many Systems of Private Law are There in Europe? On Plural Legal Sources, Multiple Identities and the Unity of Law  Martijn W. Hesselink,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
April 19, 2012 to June 18, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	213	The Questionable Basis of the Common European Sales Law: The Role of an Optional Instrument in Jurisdictional Competition  Eric A. Posner,  University of Chicago - Law School
2	166	Modern Chinese Real Estate Law: Property Development in an Evolving Legal System (Chapter 1)  Gregory M. Stein,  University of Tennessee College of Law
3	86	An Empirical Study of Predispute Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in Social Media Terms of Service Agreements  Michael L. Rustad, Richard Buckingham, Diane D'Angelo, Katherine Durlacher,  Suffolk University Law School, Suffolk University - Law School, Suffolk University - Law School, Suffolk University - Law School
4	83	A Tea Party at the Hague?  Stephen B. Burbank,  University of Pennsylvania Law School
5	82	How Many Systems of Private Law are There in Europe? On Plural Legal Sources, Multiple Identities and the Unity of Law  Martijn W. Hesselink,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
6	78	Market Conditions and Contract Design: Variations in Debt Covenants and Collateral  George G. Triantis, Albert H. Choi,  Stanford University - Law School, University of Virginia School of Law,
7	70	Remedial Consilience  Marco Jimenez,  Stetson University College of Law
8	63	Mandatory Arbitration of Internal Trust Disputes: Improving Arbitrability and Enforceability Through Proper Procedural Choices  S.I. Strong,  University of Missouri School of Law
9	47	Letting Go of Binary Thinking and Too-Big-To-Fail: Preserving a Continuum Approach to Systemic Risk  Cheryl D. Block,  Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law
10	46	Navigating the Borders Between International Commercial Arbitration and U.S. Federal Courts: A Jurisprudential GPS  S.I. Strong,  University of Missouri School of Law

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