Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Network

In an uprecedented development our second Top Ten list is only a Top Eight.  Apparently, there is a shortage of fresh contracts scholarship showing up on SSRN this summer.  Those of you out there eager to break into the big time with a top-ten hit, this is the time to post.

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 
April 5, 2012 to June 4, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	561	The Perils of Social Reading  Neil M. Richards,  Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law
2	162	The Common European Sales Law (CESL) Beyond Party Choice  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)
3	143	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
4	130	Transaction Simplicity  Stephen J. Lubben,  Seton Hall University - School of Law
5	128	The Private Equity Contract  Steven M. Davidoff,  Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law
6	101	The Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) - The Most Interesting Development in Contract Law Since the Code Civil and the BGB  Frank Emmert,  Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
7	101	'Offer to Sell' as a Policy Tool  Lucas Osborn,  Campbell University Law School
8	80	Conceptualizing Contractual Interpretation  Alan Schwartz, Joel Watson,  Yale Law School, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics
9	74	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	67	A Framework for Analyzing Financial Market Transformation  Steven L. Schwarcz,  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)  
April 5, 2012 to June 4, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	561	The Perils of Social Reading  Neil M. Richards,  Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law
2	150	Modern Chinese Real Estate Law: Property Development in an Evolving Legal System (Chapter 1)  Gregory M. Stein,  University of Tennessee College of Law
3	78	A Tea Party at the Hague?  Stephen B. Burbank,  University of Pennsylvania Law School
4	65	Europe-Building Through Private Law: Lessons from Constitutional Theory  Chantal Mak,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
5	65	Remedial Consilience  Marco Jimenez,  Stetson University College of Law
6	64	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
7	62	Instructing Juries on Noneconomic Contract Damages  David A. Hoffman, Alexander Radus,  Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law
8	36	Against Liability for Private Risk-Exposure  Sheila B. Scheuerman,  Charleston School of Law

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