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 
May 25, 2012 to July 24, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	212	Reforming the Short-Term Funding Markets  Morgan Ricks,  Harvard University Law School
2	210	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)
3	189	The Antitrust/Consumer Protection Paradox: Two Policies at War with Each Other  Joshua D. Wright,  George Mason University - School of Law, Faculty
4	184	The Irony of Privacy Class Action Litigation  Eric Goldman,  Santa Clara University - School of Law
5	182	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
6	175	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
7	159	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
8	109	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
9	93	Featuring People in Ads  Eric Goldman, Rebecca Tushnet,  Santa Clara University - School of Law, Georgetown University - Law Center
10	90	Affirmatively Inefficient Jurisprudence?: Confusing Contractors’ Rights to Raise Affirmative Defenses with Sovereign Immunity  Steven L. Schooner, Pamela Kovacs,  George Washington University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
May 25, 2012 to July 24, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	182	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
2	109	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
3	95	A Tea Party at the Hague?  Stephen B. Burbank,  University of Pennsylvania Law School
4	89	Law and the Stable Self  Rebecca E. Hollander-Blumoff,  Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law
5	71	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
6	49	Reflections on the Two-Handed Lawyer: Thinking versus Action in Business Lawyering  Jeffrey M. Lipshaw,  Suffolk University - Law School
7	48	Autonomy, Pluralism, and Contract Theory  Hanoch Dagan,  Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
8	46	'Do-Not-Track' as Contract  Joshua Fairfield,  Washington and Lee University - School of Law
9	44	Mistake Under the Common European Sales Law  Ariel Porat,  Tel Aviv University
10	43	Remedies for Breach of Contract  Gaurang Jajodia,  Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN

 

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