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 21, 2012 to August 20, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	1302	A Transactional Genealogy of Scandal: From Michael Milken to Enron to Goldman Sachs  William W. Bratton, Adam J. Levitin,  University of Pennsylvania - Law School, Georgetown University - Law Center
2	197	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	164	You Definitely Should Have: A Contractual Look at Israeli Wedding Gift Culture  Zvi H. Triger,  Striks School of Law, The College of Management Academic Studies (COLMAN)
4	150	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
5	132	Featuring People in Ads  Eric Goldman, Rebecca Tushnet,  Santa Clara University - School of Law, Georgetown University - Law Center
6	132	The Dynamics of Contract Evolution  Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati, Eric A. Posner,  New York University (NYU) - School of Law, Duke University - School of Law, University of Chicago - Law Schoo
7	122	Hollywood Deals: Soft Contracts for Hard Markets  Jonathan Barnett,  USC Gould School of Law
8	102	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
9	99	Contract and Innovation: The Limited Role of Generalist Courts in the Evolution of Novel Contractual Terms  Ronald J. Gilson, Charles F. Sabel, Robert E. Scott,  Stanford Law School, Columbia University - Law School, Columbia University - Law School
10	96	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 21, 2012 to August 20, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	197	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	164	You Definitely Should Have: A Contractual Look at Israeli Wedding Gift Culture  Zvi H. Triger,  Striks School of Law, The College of Management Academic Studies (COLMAN)
3	150	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
4	122	Hollywood Deals: Soft Contracts for Hard Markets  Jonathan Barnett,  USC Gould School of Law
5	96	Law and the Stable Self  Rebecca E. Hollander-Blumoff,  Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law
6	81	Autonomy, Pluralism, and Contract Theory  Hanoch Dagan,  Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
7	73	The Return-Reducing Ripple Effects of the 'Carried Interest' Tax Proposals  Heather M. Field,  University of California - Hastings College of the Law
8	70	The Importance of Fault in Contract Law  Robert A. Hillman,  Cornell Law School
9	69	Reflections on the Two-Handed Lawyer: Thinking versus Action in Business Lawyering  Jeffrey M. Lipshaw,  Suffolk University - Law School
10	53	The Renegotiating Clause in Petroleum International Joint Venture Agreements  Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi,  University of Qatar

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