Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Council

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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 
November 8, 2012 to January 7, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	396	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	315	Libertarianism, Law and Economics, and the Common Law  Todd J. Zywicki,  George Mason University - School of Law, Faculty
3	145	Monism and Dualism in International Commercial Arbitration: Overcoming Barriers to Consistent Application of Principles of Public International Law  S.I. Strong,  University of Missouri School of Law
4	144	Sovereign Immunity and Sovereign Debt  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
5	125	Contracting About Private Benefits of Control  Ronald J. Gilson, Alan Schwartz,  Stanford Law School, Yale Law School
6	112	The Historical Origins of America's Mortgage Laws  Andra C. Ghent,  Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
7	109	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
8	86	The Transnationalisation of Commercial Law  Gralf-Peter Calliess, Hermann Hoffmann, Jens Mertens,  University of Bremen - Faculty of Law, University of Bremen - Faculty of Law, University of Bremen - Faculty of Law
9	75	Class, Mass and Collective Arbitration in National and International Law  S.I. Strong,  University of Missouri School of Law
10	71	The Inalienable Right of Publicity  Jennifer E. Rothman,  Loyola Marymount University - Loyola Law School Los Angeles

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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
November 9, 2012 to January 8, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	111	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
2	53	Transnational Private Regulatory Governance: Ambiguities of Public Authority and Private Power  Peer Zumbansen,  York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
3	52	Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange  Kieran Healy, Kimberly D. Krawiec,  Duke University, Duke University - School of Law
4	49	Contracting with Sovereignty: State Contracts and International Arbitration (Book Review)  A. F. M. Maniruzzaman,  University of Portsmouth - School of Law
5	43	Would Enactment of the Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreement Act in All Fifty States Change U.S. Law Regarding Premarital Agreements?  J. Thomas Oldham,  University of Houston - Law Center
6	30	The Role of Public Policy and Mandatory Rules within the Proposed Hague Principles on the Law Applicable to International Commercial Contracts - Updating Note  Andrew Dickinson,  University of Sydney - Faculty of Law,
7	24	Interpretations of Standard Clauses: A Comparative Study of China and UK Contract Law  Peng Wang,  Xi'an Jiaotong University -- School of Law
8	20	Die Bestimmung durch einen Dritten im Europäischen Vertragsrecht – Textstufen transnationaler Modellregelungen (Determination by a Third Party in European Contract Law – A Genetic Comparison of Transnational Model Rules)  Jens Kleinschmidt,  Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
9	20	Norms and Law: Putting the Horse Before the Cart  Barak D. Richman,  Duke University - School of Law
10	19	The Duty to Draft Reasonably and Online Contracts  Nancy S. Kim,  California Western School of Law

 

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