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 
June 1, 2012 to July 31, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	241	The Antitrust/Consumer Protection Paradox: Two Policies at War with Each Other  Joshua D. Wright,  George Mason University - School of Law, Faculty
2	213	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	187	The Irony of Privacy Class Action Litigation  Eric Goldman,  Santa Clara University - School of Law
4	187	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
5	185	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
6	155	You Definitely Should Have: A Contractual Look at Israeli Wedding Gift Culture  Zvi H. Triger,  College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS) School of Law
7	124	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
8	112	Featuring People in Ads  Eric Goldman, Rebecca Tushnet,  Santa Clara University - School of Law, Georgetown University - Law Center,
9	96	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
10	92	Law and the Stable Self  Rebecca E. Hollander-Blumoff,  Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
June 1, 2012 to July 31, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	187	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	155	You Definitely Should Have: A Contractual Look at Israeli Wedding Gift Culture  Zvi H. Triger,  College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS) School of Law
3	123	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
4	92	Law and the Stable Self  Rebecca E. Hollander-Blumoff,  Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law
5	72	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	59	Autonomy, Pluralism, and Contract Theory  Hanoch Dagan,  Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
7	56	Reflections on the Two-Handed Lawyer: Thinking versus Action in Business Lawyering  Jeffrey M. Lipshaw,  Suffolk University - Law Schoo
8	48	'Do-Not-Track' as Contract  Joshua Fairfield,  Washington and Lee University - School of Law
9	46	Remedies for Breach of Contract  Gaurang Jajodia,  Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN
10	45	Mistake Under the Common European Sales Law  Ariel Porat,  Tel Aviv University

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