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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 
January 3, 2013 to March 4, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	398	Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2012: Twenty-Sixth Annual Survey  Symeon C. Symeonides,  Willamette University - College of Law
2	287	Arbitration and Access to Justice: Economic Analysis  Omri Ben-Shahar,  University of Chicago Law School
3	121	Sovereign Debt after NML v. Argentina  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
4	112	Computable Contracts  Harry Surden,  University of Colorado at Boulder - School of Law
5	111	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
6	110	Contract Hope and Sovereign Redemption  Anna Gelpern,  American University Washington College of Law
7	107	Publish and Perish? Handling the Unreasonable Publication Agreement  Harold Anthony Lloyd,  Wake Forest University School of Law
8	90	Is Corporate Law 'Private' (and Why Does it Matter)?  Marc Moore,  University College London - Faculty of Laws
9	86	Problems of Uniform Sales Law – Why the CISG May Not Promote International Trade  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI),
10	83	A Lesson on Some Limits of Economic Analysis: Schwartz and Scott on Contract Interpretation  Steven J. Burton,  University of Iowa - College of Law

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
January 4, 2013 to March 5, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	112	Computable Contracts  Harry Surden,  University of Colorado at Boulder - School of Law,
2	111	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
3	86	Problems of Uniform Sales Law – Why the CISG May Not Promote International Trade  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)
4	83	A Lesson on Some Limits of Economic Analysis: Schwartz and Scott on Contract Interpretation  Steven J. Burton,  University of Iowa - College of Law
5	83	Living with 'ADR': Evolving Perceptions and Use of Mediation, Arbitration and Conflict Management in Fortune 1,000 Corporations  Thomas Stipanowich, J. Ryan Lamare,  Pepperdine University School of Law, Pennsylvania State University - Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations
6	82	The Impact of Voidness for Infringement of Article 101 TFEU on Linked Contracts  Caroline Cauffman,  Maastricht University
7	75	Regulation by Liability Insurance: From Auto to Lawyers Professional Liability  Tom Baker, Rick Swedloff,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, Rutgers School of Law - Camden
8	74	A Particle of Freedom: Natural Law Thought and the Kantian Theory of Transfer by Contract  Helge Dedek,  McGill University - Faculty of Law
9	74	Tailoring a Consent Inquiry to Fit Individual Employment Contracts  Lisa J. Bernt,  Northeastern University School of Law
10	66	The Consumer Rights Directive  Joasia Luzak, Vanessa Mak,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), Tilburg University - Tilburg Law School

 

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New in Print

Barbara A. Atwood and Brian H. Bix, A New Uniform Law for Premarital and Marital Agreements, 46 Fam. L.Q. 313 (2012) [The Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act is printed in the same issue, 46 Fam. L.Q. 345 (2012)].

Joseph A. Grundfest, The History and Evolution of Intra-Corporate Forum Selection Clauses: An Empirical Analysis. 37 Del. J. Corp. L. 333 (2012). 

Michelle M. Harner and Jamie Marincic, The Naked Fiduciary, 54 Ariz. L. Rev. 879 (2012). 

Ling Li, Binding Effect of Arbitration Clauses on Holders of Bills of Lading As Nonoriginal Parties and a Potential Uniform Approach Through Comparative Analysis, 37 Tul. Mar. L.J. 107 (2012). 

Alan D.Miller and Ronen Perry, Good Faith Performance, 98 Iowa L. Rev. 689 (2013).

Viva R. Moffat, Making Non-Competes Unenforceable, 54 Ariz. L. Rev. 939 (2012).

J. Thomas Oldham, Would the Enactment of the Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act in All Fifty States Change U.S. Law Regarding Premarital Agreements? 46 Fam. L.Q. 367 (2012). 

Robert E. Rains, The Perils and Pitfalls of Marital Agreements in Multiple Legal Systems (Reviewing Marital Agreements and Private Autonomy in Comparative Perspective, edited by Jens M. Scherpe), 46 Fam. L.Q. 385 (2012).

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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 
December 28, 2012 to February 26, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	394	Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2012: Twenty-Sixth Annual Survey  Symeon C. Symeonides,  Willamette University - College of Law
2	280	Arbitration and Access to Justice: Economic Analysis  Omri Ben-Shahar,  University of Chicago Law School
3	113	Sovereign Debt after NML v. Argentina  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
4	108	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
5	104	Contract Hope and Sovereign Redemption  Anna Gelpern,  American University Washington College of Law
6	103	Publish and Perish? Handling the Unreasonable Publication Agreement  Harold Anthony Lloyd,  Wake Forest University School of Law
7	97	Computable Contracts  Harry Surden,  University of Colorado at Boulder - School of Law
8	90	Is Corporate Law 'Private' (and Why Does it Matter)?  Marc Moore,  University College London - Faculty of Laws
9	81	A Lesson on Some Limits of Economic Analysis: Schwartz and Scott on Contract Interpretation  Steven J. Burton,  University of Iowa - College of Law
10	80	Problems of Uniform Sales Law – Why the CISG May Not Promote International Trade  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
December 28, 2012 to February 26, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	108	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
2	97	Computable Contracts  Harry Surden,  University of Colorado at Boulder - School of Law,
3	81	A Lesson on Some Limits of Economic Analysis: Schwartz and Scott on Contract Interpretation  Steven J. Burton,  University of Iowa - College of Law
4	80	Problems of Uniform Sales Law – Why the CISG May Not Promote International Trade  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)
5	73	A Particle of Freedom: Natural Law Thought and the Kantian Theory of Transfer by Contract  Helge Dedek,  McGill University - Faculty of Law
6	72	The Impact of Voidness for Infringement of Article 101 TFEU on Linked Contracts  Caroline Cauffman,  Maastricht University
7	62	A Legal Overview of Utah's H.B. 148 – The Transfer of Public Lands Act  Donald J. Kochan,  Chapman University School of Law
8	58	The Consumer Rights Directive  Joasia Luzak, Vanessa Mak,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), Tilburg University - Tilburg Law School
9	58	Can't Buy Me Love: Monetary Versus In-Kind Remedies  Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir,  Hebrew University - Faculty of Law
10	58	The Principle of Proportionality and European Contract Law  Caroline Cauffman,  Maastricht University

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New in Print

Kenneth A. Adams, A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (3d ed., 2013)

 Browning Jeffries, Preliminary Negotiations or Binding Obligations? A Framework for Determining the Intent of the Parties, 48 Gonz. L. Rev. 1 (2012/13)

Michael J. Davidson, , Lt. Col. (Ret.), U.S. Army, The Twenty-Third Major Frank B. Creekmore Lecture: Where We Came From and Where We May Be Going. 211 Mil. L. Rev. 263 (2012)

Zhiyong Liu, and Ronen Avraham, Ex Ante Versus Ex Post Expectation Damages, 32 Int'l Rev. L. & Econ. 339 (2012)

About a year ago this time, we posted about Melissa Lonegrass's presentation at the Seventh Annual International Conference on Contracts, which was held in San Diego.  We now happily note that the published version is now available:

Melissa T. Lonegrass, Finding Room for Fairness in Formalism— The Sliding Scale Approach to Unconscionability, 44 Loyola U. Chic. L. J. 1 (2012)

And speaking of the Annual International Conference on Contracts, the schedule for the Eighth International Conference on Contracts, coming up this weekend, is available here.

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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 
December 20, 2012 to February 18, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	360	Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2012: Twenty-Sixth Annual Survey  Symeon C. Symeonides,  Willamette University - College of Law
2	272	Arbitration and Access to Justice: Economic Analysis  Omri Ben-Shahar,  University of Chicago Law School
3	104	Sovereign Debt after NML v. Argentina  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
4	97	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
5	97	Publish and Perish? Handling the Unreasonable Publication Agreement  Harold Anthony Lloyd,  Wake Forest University School of Law
6	91	Contract Hope and Sovereign Redemption  Anna Gelpern,  American University Washington College of Law
7	85	Is Corporate Law 'Private' (and Why Does it Matter)?  Marc Moore,  University College London - Faculty of Laws
8	79	Redress for a No-Win Situation: Using Liquidated Damages in Comparable Coaches' Contracts to Assess a School's Economic Damage from the Loss of a Successful Coach  Richard T. Karcher,  Florida Coastal School of Law
9	74	Problems of Uniform Sales Law – Why the CISG May Not Promote International Trade  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)
10	75	A Lesson on Some Limits of Economic Analysis: Schwartz and Scott on Contract Interpretation  Steven J. Burton,  University of Iowa - College of Law

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
December 20, 2012 to February 18, 2013

ank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	97	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
2	75	A Lesson on Some Limits of Economic Analysis: Schwartz and Scott on Contract Interpretation  Steven J. Burton,  University of Iowa - College of Law
3	74	Problems of Uniform Sales Law – Why the CISG May Not Promote International Trade  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)
4	66	A Particle of Freedom: Natural Law Thought and the Kantian Theory of Transfer by Contract  Helge Dedek,  McGill University - Faculty of Law
5	64	The Impact of Voidness for Infringement of Article 101 TFEU on Linked Contracts  Caroline Cauffman,  Maastricht University
6	57	A Legal Overview of Utah's H.B. 148 – The Transfer of Public Lands Act  Donald J. Kochan,  Chapman University School of Law
7	54	Norms and Law: Putting the Horse Before the Cart  Barak D. Richman,  Duke University - School of Law
8	54	Can't Buy Me Love: Monetary Versus In-Kind Remedies  Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir,  Hebrew University - Faculty of Law
9	52	The Principle of Proportionality and European Contract Law  Caroline Cauffman,  Maastricht University
10	48	The Consumer Rights Directive  Joasia Luzak, Vanessa Mak,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), Tilburg University - Tilburg Law School

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New in Print

Uri Benoliel, Rethinking the U.S. Supreme Court's Abandonment Requirement in Mac's Shell Service Inc. v. Shell Oil Products. 43 Rutgers L.J. 77 (2011/2012)

Lisa J. Bernt, Tailoring a Consent Inquiry to Fit Individual Employment Contracts, 63 Syracuse L. Rev. 31 (2012)

Jeffrey C. Bright, Unilateral Attorney's Fees Clauses: A Proposal to Shift to the Golden Rule, 61 Drake L. Rev. 85 (2012)

Eli Bukspan, Extreme Makeover -- Contract Law Edition: A New Home for Human Rights and Social Responsibility (Lessons from Israel). 7 Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 329 (2012)

Jeff Dasteel, Arbitration Agreements that Discriminate in the Selection and Appointment of Arbitrators. 11 Rich. J. Global L. & Bus. 383 (2012)

Thomas W. Foley, Freedom of Contract vs. the Right to Work: An Analysis and Some Thoughts on Iowa's Covenant Not to Compete Law. 61 Drake L. Rev. 205- (2012)

Kieran Healy and Kimberly D. Krawiec, Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange, 62 Duke L.J. 645 (2012)

Steven Feldman, Employment-at-Will and Employee Handbooks: Distinguishing Employee Contractual Rights and Company Workplace Policies, Tennessee Bar Journal, 49-FEB Tenn. B.J. 18 (2013)

Daniel I. Gordon, The Twenty-Seventh Gilbert A. Cuneo Lecture in Government Contract Law, 210 Mil. L. Rev. 103 (2011)

David A. Hoffman and Alexander S. Radus, Instructing Juries on Noneconomic Contract Damages. 81 Fordham L. Rev. 1221 (2012)

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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 
December 13, 2012 to February 11, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	333	Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2012: Twenty-Sixth Annual Survey  Symeon C. Symeonides,  Willamette University - College of Law
2	265	Arbitration and Access to Justice: Economic Analysis  Omri Ben-Shahar,  University of Chicago Law School
3	200	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	94	Sovereign Debt after NML v. Argentina  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
5	90	Sea Changes in Consumer Financial Protection: Stronger Agency and Stronger Laws  Dee Pridgen,  University of Wyoming College of Law
6	89	Contract Hope and Sovereign Redemption  Anna Gelpern,  American University Washington College of Law
7	89	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
8	83	Is Corporate Law 'Private' (and Why Does it Matter)?  Marc Moore,  University College London - Faculty of Laws
9	78	Redress for a No-Win Situation: Using Liquidated Damages in Comparable Coaches' Contracts to Assess a School's Economic Damage from the Loss of a Successful Coach  Richard T. Karcher,  Florida Coastal School of Law
10	77	Publish and Perish? Handling the Unreasonable Publication Agreement  Harold Anthony Lloyd,  Wake Forest University School of Law

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
December 13, 2012 to February 11, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	89	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
2	69	Problems of Uniform Sales Law – Why the CISG May Not Promote International Trade  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)
3	67	A Lesson on Some Limits of Economic Analysis: Schwartz and Scott on Contract Interpretation  Steven J. Burton,  University of Iowa - College of Law
4	55	A Legal Overview of Utah's H.B. 148 – The Transfer of Public Lands Act  Donald J. Kochan,  Chapman University School of Law
5	50	The Principle of Proportionality and European Contract Law  Caroline Cauffman,  Maastricht University
6	50	Norms and Law: Putting the Horse Before the Cart  Barak D. Richman,  Duke University - School of Law
7	47	Can't Buy Me Love: Monetary Versus In-Kind Remedies  Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir,  Hebrew University - Faculty of Law
8	46	Taking Outcomes Seriously  Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir,  Hebrew University - Faculty of Law
9	44	A Particle of Freedom: Natural Law Thought and the Kantian Theory of Transfer by Contract  Helge Dedek,  McGill University - Faculty of Law
10	40	The Consumer Rights Directive  Joasia Luzak, Vanessa Mak,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), Tilburg University - Tilburg Law School

 

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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 
December 6, 2012 to February 4, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	318	Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2012: Twenty-Sixth Annual Survey  Symeon C. Symeonides,  Willamette University - College of Law
2	230	Arbitration and Access to Justice: Economic Analysis  Omri Ben-Shahar,  University of Chicago Law School
3	194	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	90	Class, Mass and Collective Arbitration in National and International Law  S.I. Strong,  University of Missouri School of Law
5	86	Sovereign Debt after NML v. Argentina  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
6	84	Sea Changes in Consumer Financial Protection: Stronger Agency and Stronger Laws  Dee Pridgen,  University of Wyoming College of Law
7	83	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
8	81	Is Corporate Law 'Private' (and Why Does it Matter)?  Marc Moore,  University College London - Faculty of Laws
9	76	Redress for a No-Win Situation: Using Liquidated Damages in Comparable Coaches' Contracts to Assess a School's Economic Damage from the Loss of a Successful Coach  Richard T. Karcher,  Florida Coastal School of Law
10	74	Contract Hope and Sovereign Redemption  Anna Gelpern,  American University Washington College of Law

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
December 6, 2012 to February 4, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	83	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
2	66	Problems of Uniform Sales Law – Why the CISG May Not Promote International Trade  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)
3	66	Transnational Private Regulatory Governance: Ambiguities of Public Authority and Private Power  Peer Zumbansen,  York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
4	63	A Lesson on Some Limits of Economic Analysis: Schwartz and Scott on Contract Interpretation  Steven J. Burton,  University of Iowa - College of Law
5	53	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	52	A Legal Overview of Utah's H.B. 148 – The Transfer of Public Lands Act  Donald J. Kochan,  Chapman University School of Law
7	48	Norms and Law: Putting the Horse Before the Cart  Barak D. Richman,  Duke University - School of Law
8	45	The Principle of Proportionality and European Contract Law  Caroline Cauffman,  Maastricht University
9	42	Taking Outcomes Seriously  Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir,  Hebrew University - Faculty of Law
10	35	The Consumer Rights Directive  Joasia Luzak, Vanessa Mak,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), Tilburg University - Tilburg Law School

 

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New in Print (including new Books)

Albert Choi and George Triantis, The Effect of Bargaining Power on Contract Design, 98 Va. L. Rev. 1665 (2012)

Charles T. Kirchmaier,  Lt. Col., U.S. Army, Treating the Symptoms but Not the Disease: A Call to Reform False Claims Act Enforcement. 209 Mil. L. Rev. 186 (2011)

Marc T. Law and Cheryl X. Long, What Do Revolving-Door Laws Do? 55 J.L. & Econ. 421 (2012) 

Maya Steinitz, The Litigation Finance Contract, 54 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 455 (2012)

Margaret Temple-Smith & Deborah Cupples, Legal Drafting: Litigation Documents, Contracts, Legislation, and Wills (West 2013)

UNCITRAL Digest of Case Law on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. 30 J.L. & Com. 3 (2012).

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, Legal Promise and Psychological Contract. 47 Wake Forest L. Rev. 843 (2012)

Special mention goes to Jean Braucher, John Kidwell and William C Whitford (eds.), Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay: On the Empirical and the Lyrical (Hart 2013)

From the Hart website:

This book contains the papers prepared for a conference held at the Wisconsin Law School in 2011 to honour the work of Stewart Macaulay, one of the most famous contracts scholars of his generation. Macaulay has been writing about contracts and contract law for over 50 years; the 1960s were particularly productive years for him, when he introduced many novel ideas into the scholarly world. Macaulay's foundational work for what is now called relational contract theory was published during this period. Macaulay is also known for his use of empirical research and interdisciplinary theories to illuminate our knowledge of contracting practices.

The papers in this volume reflect, in diverse ways, on the subsequent influence and the contemporary relevance of Macaulay's work. All the contributors are important contracts scholars in their own right: David Campbell and John Wightman from the UK, Brian Bix, Jay Feinman, Robert Gordon, Claire Hill, Charles Knapp, Ethan Leib, Deborah Post, Edward Rubin, Carol Sanger, Robert Scott, Gordon Smith, Josh Whitford (with Li-Wen Lin) and William Woodward from the USA. The volume also reproduces Macaulay's most cited paper, 'Non-Contractual Relations in Business', and excerpts from two other important papers of his, 'Private Legislation and the Duty to Read-Business Run by IBM Machine, the Law of Contracts and Credit Cards', and 'The Real and The Paper Deal: Empirical Pictures of Relationships, Complexity and the Urge for Transparent Simple Rules'. 

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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 
November 30, 2012 to January 29, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	292	Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2012: Twenty-Sixth Annual Survey  Symeon C. Symeonides,  Willamette University - College of Law
2	220	Arbitration and Access to Justice: Economic Analysis  Omri Ben-Shahar,  University of Chicago Law School
3	181	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	167	Contracting About Private Benefits of Control  Ronald J. Gilson, Alan Schwartz,  Stanford Law School, Yale Law School
5	88	Class, Mass and Collective Arbitration in National and International Law  S.I. Strong,  University of Missouri School of Law
6	82	Sea Changes in Consumer Financial Protection: Stronger Agency and Stronger Laws  Dee Pridgen,  University of Wyoming College of Law
7	76	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
8	72	Is Corporate Law 'Private' (and Why Does it Matter)?  Marc Moore,  University College London - Faculty of Laws
9	71	Redress for a No-Win Situation: Using Liquidated Damages in Comparable Coaches' Contracts to Assess a School's Economic Damage from the Loss of a Successful Coach  Richard T. Karcher,  Florida Coastal School of Law
10	70	Sovereign Debt after NML v. Argentina  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
November 30, 2012 to January 29, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	76	Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics  Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman,  University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law
2	66	Transnational Private Regulatory Governance: Ambiguities of Public Authority and Private Power  Peer Zumbansen,  York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
3	58	Problems of Uniform Sales Law – Why the CISG May Not Promote International Trade  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)
4	52	A Lesson on Some Limits of Economic Analysis: Schwartz and Scott on Contract Interpretation  Steven J. Burton,  University of Iowa - College of Law
5	49	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	48	Norms and Law: Putting the Horse Before the Cart  Barak D. Richman,  Duke University - School of Law
7	40	Taking Outcomes Seriously  Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir,  Hebrew University - Faculty of Law
8	37	A Legal Overview of Utah's H.B. 148 – The Transfer of Public Lands Act  Donald J. Kochan,  Chapman University School of Law
9	28	The Principle of Proportionality and European Contract Law  Caroline Cauffman,  Maastricht University
10	28	The Consumer Rights Directive  Joasia Luzak, Vanessa Mak,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), Tilburg University - Tilburg Law School

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New in Print

James J. Gallagher, David J. Ginsberg and Keith M. Byers, En Banc Consideration of Government Contract Issues at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 42 Pub. Cont. L.J. 107 (2012). 

E. Sanderson Hoe and Mary E. Buxton, The Plain Meaning Rule in the Federal Circuit: An Update of Case Law after Coast Federal Bank, FSB v. United States. 42 Pub. Cont. L.J. 151 (2012).

Robert K. Huffman, Close Encounters: Government Contracts Law Meets Patent Law at the Federal Circuit, 42 Pub. Cont. L.J. 121 (2012).

Richard C. Johnson, Beyond Judicial Activism: Federal Circuit Decisions Legislating New Contract Requirements, 42 Pub. Cont. L.J. 69 (2012).

W. Stanfield Johnson, The Federal Circuit's Abrogation of the NAFI Doctrine: An En Banc Message with Implications for other Jurisdictional Challenges? 42 Pub. Cont. L.J. 43-67 (2012).

James J. McCullough, Michael J. Anstett and Brian M. Stanford, Observations on the Federal Circuit's Impact on Bid Protest Litigation since ADRA, 42 Pub. Cont. L.J. 91 (2012).

Stuart B. Nibley and Jade Totman, Let the Government Contract: The Sovereign Has the Right, and Good Reason, to Shed Its Sovereignty When It Contracts, 42 Pub. Cont. L.J. 1-41 (2012).

Michael L. Rustad, Richard Buckingham, Diane D'Angelo and Katherine Durlacher, An Empirical Study of Predispute Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in Social Media Terms of Service Agreements. 34 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 643 (2012).

Amy J. Schmitz, Building Bridges to Remedies for Consumers in International E-Conflicts, 34 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 779 (2012)

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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 
November 23, 2012 to January 22, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	210	Arbitration and Access to Justice: Economic Analysis  Omri Ben-Shahar,  University of Chicago Law School
2	180	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
3	171	Sovereign Immunity and Sovereign Debt  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
4	141	Contracting About Private Benefits of Control  Ronald J. Gilson, Alan Schwartz,  Stanford Law School, Yale Law School
5	98	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
6	85	Class, Mass and Collective Arbitration in National and International Law  S.I. Strong,  University of Missouri School of Law
7	76	Sea Changes in Consumer Financial Protection: Stronger Agency and Stronger Laws  Dee Pridgen,  University of Wyoming College of Law
8	69	Is Corporate Law 'Private' (and Why Does it Matter)?  Marc Moore,  University College London - Faculty of Laws
9	62	Transnational Private Regulatory Governance: Ambiguities of Public Authority and Private Power  Peer Zumbansen,  York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
10	60	The Logic of the Law and the Essence of Economics: Reflections on 40 Years in the Wilderness  Neil K. Komesar,  University of Wisconsin - Madison

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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
November 23, 2012 to January 22, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	62	Transnational Private Regulatory Governance: Ambiguities of Public Authority and Private Power  Peer Zumbansen,  York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
2	53	Problems of Uniform Sales Law – Why the CISG May Not Promote International Trade  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)
3	53	Contracting with Sovereignty: State Contracts and International Arbitration (Book Review)  A. F. M. Maniruzzaman,  University of Portsmouth - School of Law
4	53	Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange  Kieran Healy, Kimberly D. Krawiec,  Duke University, Duke University - School of Law
5	47	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	47	Norms and Law: Putting the Horse Before the Cart  Barak D. Richman,  Duke University - School of Law
7	35	A Lesson on Some Limits of Economic Analysis: Schwartz and Scott on Contract Interpretation  Steven J. Burton,  University of Iowa - College of Law
8	30	Interpretations of Standard Clauses: A Comparative Study of China and UK Contract Law  Peng Wang,  Xi'an Jiaotong University - School of Law
9	30	Taking Outcomes Seriously  Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir,  Hebrew University - Faculty of Law
10	22	The Consumer Rights Directive  Joasia Luzak, Vanessa Mak,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), Tilburg University - Tilburg Law School

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New in Print

H. Martin Gibson, Modifying Oil & Gas Documents for Horizontal Drilling, 19 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 77 (2012)

Chunlin Leonhard, The Unbearable Lightness of Consent in Contract Law. 63 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 57 (2012)

Patricia Proctor, J. Kevin West and Gregory P. Neil, Moving Through the Rocky Legal Terrain to Find a "Safe" Royalty Clause or a "New" Market at the Well, 19 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 145 (2012)

James C. Wright, Brian J. Pulito and Cheryl L. Davis, Implied Covenants in Oil and Gas Leases in the Appalachian Basin, 19 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 121 (2012).

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Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Council

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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 
November 15, 2012 to January 14, 2013

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	167	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
2	162	Sovereign Immunity and Sovereign Debt  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law,
3	134	Contracting About Private Benefits of Control  Ronald J. Gilson, Alan Schwartz,  Stanford Law School, Yale Law School
4	91	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
5	80	Class, Mass and Collective Arbitration in National and International Law  S.I. Strong,  University of Missouri School of Law
6	74	The Inalienable Right of Publicity  Jennifer E. Rothman,  Loyola Marymount University - Loyola Law School Los Angeles
7	71	Sea Changes in Consumer Financial Protection: Stronger Agency and Stronger Laws  Dee Pridgen,  University of Wyoming College of Law
8	59	Transnational Private Regulatory Governance: Ambiguities of Public Authority and Private Power  Peer Zumbansen,  York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
9	54	Is Corporate Law 'Private' (and Why Does it Matter)?  Marc Moore,  University College London - Faculty of Laws
10	52	Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange  Kieran Healy, Kimberly D. Krawiec,  Duke University, 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)   November 15, 2012 to January 14, 2013\ Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 59 Transnational Private Regulatory Governance: Ambiguities of Public Authority and Private Power  Peer Zumbansen,  York University - Osgoode Hall Law School 2 52 Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange  Kieran Healy, Kimberly D. Krawiec,  Duke University, Duke University - School of Law 3 52 Contracting with Sovereignty: State Contracts and International Arbitration (Book Review)  A. F. M. Maniruzzaman,  University of Portsmouth - School of Law 4 44 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 5 42 Norms and Law: Putting the Horse Before the Cart  Barak D. Richman,  Duke University - School of Law 6 35 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 26 Interpretations of Standard Clauses: A Comparative Study of China and UK Contract Law  Peng Wang,  Xi'an Jiaotong University -- School of Law 8 24 Problems of Uniform Sales Law – Why the CISG May Not Promote International Trade  Jan M. Smits,  Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI) 9 19 A Lesson on Some Limits of Economic Analysis: Schwartz and Scott on Contract Interpretation  Steven J. Burton,  University of Iowa - College of Law 10 18 The Quest to Find a Law Applicable to Contracts in the European Union - A Summary of Fragmented Provisions  Tamas Dezso Czigler, Izolda Takacs,  Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Centre for Social Sciences, Unaffiliated Authors -affiliation not provided to SSRN

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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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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 27, 2012 to December 26, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	352	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	306	Libertarianism, Law and Economics, and the Common Law  Todd J. Zywicki,  George Mason University - School of Law, Faculty
3	219	Losing the Paper – Mortgage Assignments, Note Transfers and Consumer Protection  Alan M. White,  City University of New York (CUNY) - School of Law
4	181	CISG and CESL  Ulrich Magnus,  c/o Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
5	125	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 - Independent
6	116	Sovereign Immunity and Sovereign Debt  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
7	112	Contracting About Private Benefits of Control  Ronald J. Gilson, Alan Schwartz,  Stanford Law School, Yale Law School
8	107	The Historical Origins of America's Mortgage Laws  Andra C. Ghent,  Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
9	106	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
10	105	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

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
October 27, 2012 to December 26, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	352	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	218	Losing the Paper – Mortgage Assignments, Note Transfers and Consumer Protection  Alan M. White,  City University of New York (CUNY) - School of Law
3	181	CISG and CESL  Ulrich Magnus,  c/o Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
4	125	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 - Independent
5	106	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	96	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	88	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	78	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
9	62	Set in Stone? Change and Innovation in Consumer Standard Form Contracts  Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Robert Brendan Taylor,  New York University (NYU) - School of Law, Kirkland & Ellis
10	57	A Plea for European Conflict Rules on Proprietary Security  Ulrich Drobnig,  Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law

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From Our Self-Promotion Department: Telman on Totten (Again)

They say that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the hallmark of insanity.  But it's also the hallmark of scholarship.  I have just posted on SSRN the shortest version yet of my argument for why we should not conflate the state secrets privilege with the Totten doctrine.  The good people over at the American University National Security Law Brief have agreed to publish it, so it should be up with them early next year.

Totten establishes a justiciability rule: people who enter into voluntary secret agreemetns with the government cannot sue to enforce those agreements because doing so would violate the implied terms that the agreements are to be kept secret.  Thus, Totten, estate administrator for a man who alleged that he had entered into a spy contract with President Lincoln (here pictured before he became either a vampire hunter or Daniel Day Lewis) but had not been paid, could not recover on the contract.  That basic principle was subsequently expanded in Tenet v. Doe to bar not just suits on contracts but all suits to enforce secret agreements with the government.

So, I have my issues with Totten, which I think has become overbroad, as I explained here.  But the point of the current article is simple and straightforward:  The state secrets privilege is an evidentiary privilege.  It is neither a contracts doctrine nor a justiciability doctrine.  The conflation of Totten with the SSP has resulted in the unwarranted pre-discovery dismissal of colorable claims alleging tort and constittuional violations by the government and its contractors.

But for those who want to see the draft, you can download it on SSRN here.  This is the abstract:

The state secrets privilege (SSP) has become a major hindrance to litigation that seeks to challenge abuses of executive power in the context of the War on Terror. The Supreme Court first embraced and gave shape to the SSP as an evidentiary privilege in a 1953 case, United States v. Reynolds. Increasingly, the government relies on the SSP to seek pre-discovery dismissal of suits alleging torts and constitutional violations by the government. Lower federal courts have permitted such pre-discovery dismissal because they have confused the SSP with a non-justiciability doctrine derived from an 1875 case, Totten v. United States. The Totten doctrine only applies to claims brought by people who have entered into voluntary relationships with the government, but it is now being invoked when the government seeks dismissal of tort claims through the SSP. While the government should invoke the SSP whenever necessary to prevent disclosure of information that might jeopardize national security, such invocations of the SSP should never result in pre-discovery dismissal.

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New in Print

Kevin E. Martingayle,  Non-Competition Agreements in Virginia in the Aftermath of Home Paramount Pest Control v. Shaffer. 47 U. Rich. L. Rev. 457 (2012)

Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Kenneth J. Martin and Randall S. Thomas, Customizing Employment Arbitration. 98 Iowa L. Rev. 133 (2012)

Daniel P. O'Gorman,  Promises, Policies, and Principles: The Supreme Court and Contractual Obligation in Labor Relations. 22 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 93 (2012)

Nathan B. Oman,  Markets as a Moral Foundation for Contract Law. 98 Iowa L. Rev. 183 (2012) 

Cheryl B. Preston, and Eli McCann, Llewellyn Slept Here: A Short History of Sticky Contracts and Feudalism. 91 Or. L. Rev. 129 (2012)

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Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Council

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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 
October 19, 2012 to December 18, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	328	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	304	Libertarianism, Law and Economics, and the Common Law  Todd J. Zywicki,  George Mason University - School of Law, Faculty
3	213	Losing the Paper – Mortgage Assignments, Note Transfers and Consumer Protection  Alan M. White,  City University of New York (CUNY) - School of Law
4	174	CISG and CESL  Ulrich Magnus,  c/o Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
5	124	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	101	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	101	The Historical Origins of America's Mortgage Laws  Andra C. Ghent,  Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
8	93	Sovereign Immunity and Sovereign Debt  Mark C. Weidemaier,  University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
9	91	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
10	86	Contracting About Private Benefits of Control  Ronald J. Gilson, Alan Schwartz,  Stanford Law School, Yale Law School

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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
October 19, 2012 to December 18, 2012

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	328	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	213	Losing the Paper – Mortgage Assignments, Note Transfers and Consumer Protection  Alan M. White,  City University of New York (CUNY) - School of Law
3	174	CISG and CESL  Ulrich Magnus,  c/o Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
4	124	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	101	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	91	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	85	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	76	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
9	74	In Defense of Commercial Capitalism: Lessius, Partnerships and the Contractus Trinus  Wim Decock,  Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History
10	58	Set in Stone? Change and Innovation in Consumer Standard Form Contracts  Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Robert Brendan Taylor,  New York University (NYU) - School of Law, Kirkland & Ellis

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New in Print

George S. Geis, Broadcast Contracting, 106 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1153 (2012)

Daniel M. Hausermann, The Case Against Statutory Menus in Corporate Law, 9 Hastings Bus. L.J. 45 (2012)

Darren A. Prum and Lorilee A. Medders, The Bonds That Tie: Will a Performance Bond Require That a Surety Deliver a Certified Green Building? 9 Hastings Bus. L.J. 1 (2012) 

Charles M. Thatcher, Specific Performance as a Seller Remedy for Buyer's Breach of a Sales Contract--The Availability of Judicial Purchase Orders. 57 S.D. L. Rev. 218 (2012)

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