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  July 19, 2012 to September 17, 2012 Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 1643 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 2 190 What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich 3 179 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) 4 168 Hollywood Deals: Soft Contracts for Hard Markets  Jonathan Barnett,  USC Gould School of Law 5 153 Featuring People in Ads  Eric Goldman, Rebecca Tushnet,  Santa Clara University - School of Law, Georgetown University - Law Center 6 138 Allocating Risk Through Contract: Evidence from M&A and Policy Implications  John C. Coates, IV,  Harvard Law School 7 113 Intellectual Property and Shrinkwrap Licenses  Mark A. Lemley,  Stanford Law School 8 96 The Importance of Fault in Contract Law  Robert A. Hillman,  Cornell Law School 9 91 The Tenuous Case for Derivatives Clearinghouses  Adam J. Levitin,  Georgetown University - Law Center 10 89 Disarming the Trojan Horse of the UAAA and SPARTA: How America Should Reform its Sports Agent Laws to Conform with True Agency Principles  Marc Edelman,  Barry University - Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
July 19, 2012 to September 17, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	190	What Can Be Wrong with an Option? An Optional Common European Sales Law as a Regulatory Tool  Horst Eidenmueller,  University of Munich
2	179	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	168	Hollywood Deals: Soft Contracts for Hard Markets  Jonathan Barnett,  USC Gould School of Law
4	137	Allocating Risk Through Contract: Evidence from M&A and Policy Implications  John C. Coates, IV,  Harvard Law School
5	96	The Importance of Fault in Contract Law  Robert A. Hillman,  Cornell Law School
6	92	The Return-Reducing Ripple Effects of the 'Carried Interest' Tax Proposals  Heather M. Field,  University of California - Hastings College of the Law
7	89	Disarming the Trojan Horse of the UAAA and SPARTA: How America Should Reform its Sports Agent Laws to Conform with True Agency Principles  Marc Edelman,  Barry University - Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law
8	88	Autonomy, Pluralism, and Contract Theory  Hanoch Dagan,  Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
9	81	CDS Zombies  Anna Gelpern, G. Mitu Gulati,  American University Washington College of Law, Duke University - School of Law
10	75	The Government’s Proposed 'Review of Australian Contract Law': A Preliminary Positive Response  Luke R. Nottage,  University of Sydney - Faculty of Law

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