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 14, 2012 to August 13, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	221	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)
2	202	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
3	194	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
4	161	You Definitely Should Have: A Contractual Look at Israeli Wedding Gift Culture  Zvi H. Triger,  College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS) School of Law
5	147	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
6	128	Featuring People in Ads  Eric Goldman, Rebecca Tushnet,  Santa Clara University - School of Law, Georgetown University - Law Center
7	126	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
8	104	Hollywood Deals: Soft Contracts for Hard Markets  Jonathan Barnett,  USC Gould School of Law
9	101	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	95	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 14, 2012 to August 13, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	194	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	161	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	147	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
4	104	Hollywood Deals: Soft Contracts for Hard Markets  Jonathan Barnett,  USC Gould School of Law
5	95	Law and the Stable Self  Rebecca E. Hollander-Blumoff,  Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law
6	74	Autonomy, Pluralism, and Contract Theory  Hanoch Dagan,  Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
7	68	Reflections on the Two-Handed Lawyer: Thinking versus Action in Business Lawyering  Jeffrey M. Lipshaw,  Suffolk University - Law School
8	62	Mistake Under the Common European Sales Law  Ariel Porat,  Tel Aviv University
9	62	The Importance of Fault in Contract Law  Robert A. Hillman,  Cornell Law School
10	52	The Renegotiating Clause in Petroleum International Joint Venture Agreements  Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi,  University of Qatar

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