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 8, 2012 to August 7, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	267	The Antitrust/Consumer Protection Paradox: Two Policies at War with Each Other  Joshua D. Wright,  George Mason University - School of Law, Faculty
2	218	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	196	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
4	192	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	159	You Definitely Should Have: A Contractual Look at Israeli Wedding Gift Culture  Zvi H. Triger,  College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS) School of Law,  Date posted to database: July 9, 2012  Last Revised: July 9, 2012
6	138	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
7	122	Featuring People in Ads  Eric Goldman, Rebecca Tushnet,  Santa Clara University - School of Law, Georgetown University - Law Center
8	113	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
9	100	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 8, 2012 to August 7, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	192	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	159	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	138	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
4	95	Law and the Stable Self  Rebecca E. Hollander-Blumoff,  Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law
5	68	Autonomy, Pluralism, and Contract Theory  Hanoch Dagan,  Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
6	61	Reflections on the Two-Handed Lawyer: Thinking versus Action in Business Lawyering  Jeffrey M. Lipshaw,  Suffolk University - Law School
7	59	Mistake Under the Common European Sales Law  Ariel Porat,  Tel Aviv University
8	45	The Renegotiating Clause in Petroleum International Joint Venture Agreements  Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi,  University of Qatar
9	45	The Importance of Fault in Contract Law  Robert A. Hillman,  Cornell Law School
10	45	The Contract that Neither Party Intends  David McLauchlan,  Victoria University of Wellington - Faculty of Law

 

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