Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Council

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 
October 11, 2012 to December 10, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	304	The Cross-Border Freedom of Form Principle Under Reservation: The Role of Articles 12 and 96 CISG in Theory and Practice  Ulrich G. Schroeter,  University of Mannheim - Faculty of Law
2	268	Libertarianism, Law and Economics, and the Common Law  Todd J. Zywicki,  George Mason University - School of Law, Faculty
3	201	Losing the Paper – Mortgage Assignments, Note Transfers and Consumer Protection  Alan M. White,  City University of New York (CUNY) - School of Law
4	161	CISG and CESL  Ulrich Magnus,  c/o Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
5	122	Lewellyn Slept Here: A Short History of Sticky Contracts and Feudalism  Cheryl B. Preston, Eli McCann,  Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN
6	95	Commercial Sales: The Common European Sales Law Compared to the Vienna Sales Convention  Marco Loos, Harriët Schelhaas,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN
7	95	The Historical Origins of America's Mortgage Laws  Andra C. Ghent,  Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
8	88	An EU Law for Cross-Border Sales Only – Its Meaning and Implications in Open Markets  Jürgen Basedow,  Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
9	84	Markets as a Moral Foundation for Contract Law  Nathan B. Oman,  William & Mary Law School
10	78	A People's History of Collective Action Clauses  Mark C. Weidemaier, G. Mitu Gulati,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law, Duke University - School of Law

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
October 11, 2012 to December 10, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	304	The Cross-Border Freedom of Form Principle Under Reservation: The Role of Articles 12 and 96 CISG in Theory and Practice  Ulrich G. Schroeter,  University of Mannheim - Faculty of Law
2	201	Losing the Paper – Mortgage Assignments, Note Transfers and Consumer Protection  Alan M. White,  City University of New York (CUNY) - School of Law
3	161	CISG and CESL  Ulrich Magnus,  c/o Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
4	122	Lewellyn Slept Here: A Short History of Sticky Contracts and Feudalism  Cheryl B. Preston, Eli McCann,  Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN
5	95	Commercial Sales: The Common European Sales Law Compared to the Vienna Sales Convention  Marco Loos, Harriët Schelhaas,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN
6	88	An EU Law for Cross-Border Sales Only – Its Meaning and Implications in Open Markets  Jürgen Basedow,  Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
7	84	Markets as a Moral Foundation for Contract Law  Nathan B. Oman,  William & Mary Law School
8	78	A People's History of Collective Action Clauses  Mark C. Weidemaier, G. Mitu Gulati,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law, Duke University - School of Law
9	74	Contract Theory and the Failures of Public-Private Contracting  Wendy Netter Epstein, Wendy Netter Epstein,  Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law, Kirkland & Ellis,
10	72	In Defense of Commercial Capitalism: Lessius, Partnerships and the Contractus Trinus  Wim Decock,  Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History

 

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