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 26, 2012 to June 25, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	185	Reforming the Short-Term Funding Markets  Morgan Ricks,  Harvard University Law School
2	172	The Irony of Privacy Class Action Litigation  Eric Goldman,  Santa Clara University - School of Law
3	164	Party Choice and the Common European Sales Law, or: How to Prevent the CESL from Becoming a Lemon on the Law Market  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)
4	153	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	153	The Litigation Finance Contract  Maya Steinitz,  University of Iowa - College of Law
6	136	The Antitrust/Consumer Protection Paradox: Two Policies at War with Each Other  Joshua D. Wright,  George Mason University - School of Law, Faculty
7	128	The Optional Instrument of European Contract Law: Opting-in through Standard Terms – A Reply to Simon Whittaker  Jürgen Basedow,  Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
8	125	Conceptualizing Contractual Interpretation  Alan Schwartz, Joel Watson,  Yale Law School, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics
9	110	Regulatory Techniques in Consumer Protection: A Critique of European Consumer Contract Law  Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar,  New York University (NYU) - School of Law, University of Chicago Law School
10	94	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

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
April 26, 2012 to June 25, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	218	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	128	The Optional Instrument of European Contract Law: Opting-in through Standard Terms – A Reply to Simon Whittaker  Jürgen Basedow,  Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law\
3	94	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	91	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)\
5	86	A Tea Party at the Hague?  Stephen B. Burbank,  University of Pennsylvania Law School
6	84	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	66	Mandatory Arbitration of Internal Trust Disputes: Improving Arbitrability and Enforceability Through Proper Procedural Choices  S.I. Strong,  University of Missouri School of Law
8	58	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
9	29	AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion and the Antidiscrimination Theory of Federal Arbitration Act Preemption  Hiro N. Aragaki,  Loyola Law School (Los Angeles)
10	26	Law and the Stable Self  Rebecca E. Hollander-Blumoff,  Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law

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