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 28, 2012 to August 27, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	1452	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	168	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	159	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
4	141	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 School
5	139	Featuring People in Ads  Eric Goldman, Rebecca Tushnet,  Santa Clara University - School of Law, Georgetown University - Law Center
6	135	Hollywood Deals: Soft Contracts for Hard Markets  Jonathan Barnett,  USC Gould School of Law
7	113	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
8	82	Autonomy, Pluralism, and Contract Theory  Hanoch Dagan,  Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
9	82	The Importance of Fault in Contract Law  Robert A. Hillman,  Cornell Law School
10	78	Do Promises Distinguish Contract from Tort?  Curtis Bridgeman, John C. P. Goldberg,  Florida State University - College of Law, Harvard Law School

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
June 28, 2012 to August 27, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	168	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)
2	159	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
3	135	Hollywood Deals: Soft Contracts for Hard Markets  Jonathan Barnett,  USC Gould School of Law
4	82	Autonomy, Pluralism, and Contract Theory  Hanoch Dagan,  Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
5	82	The Importance of Fault in Contract Law  Robert A. Hillman,  Cornell Law School
6	75	The Return-Reducing Ripple Effects of the 'Carried Interest' Tax Proposals  Heather M. Field,  University of California - Hastings College of the Law
7	73	Reflections on the Two-Handed Lawyer: Thinking versus Action in Business Lawyering  Jeffrey M. Lipshaw,  Suffolk University - Law School
8	62	The Proposal for a Regulation on a Common European Sales Law: Deficits of the Most Recent Textual Layer of European Contract Law  Horst Eidenmueller, Nils Jansen, Eva-Maria Kieninger, Gerhard Wagner, Reinhard Zimmermann,  University of Munich, University of Muenster, University of Wuerzburg, University of Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
9	56	Contracts, Treaties and Umbrella Clauses: Some Jurisdictional Issues in International Investment Arbitration  Velimir Zivkovic,  University of Belgrade - Faculty of Law
10	52	The Contract that Neither Party Intends  David McLauchlan,  Victoria University of Wellington - Faculty of Law

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