Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

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Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	280	The Emerging Criminal War on Sex Offenders Corey Rayburn Yung, The John Marshall Law School, Date posted to database: August 18, 2009
2	228	The Torture Lawyers Jens David Ohlin, Cornell Law School, Date posted to database: September 10, 2009
3	221	Blaming the Brain Steven K. Erickson, University of Missouri at Columbia - School of Law, Date posted to database: September 12, 2009
4	197	The Increased Level of EU Antitrust Fines, Judicial Review, and the European Convention on Human Rights Wouter P. J. Wils, European Commission Legal Service, Date posted to database: October 24, 2009 [new to top ten]
5	171	Can Bad Science Be Good Evidence: Lie Detection, Neuroscience, and the Mistaken Conflation of Legal and Scientific Norms Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, Date posted to database: August 13, 2009 [6th last week]
6	166	Debacle: How the Supreme Court Has Mangled American Sentencing Law And How It Might Yet Be Mended Frank O. Bowman III, University of Missouri School of Law, Date posted to database: September 10, 2009 [4th last week]
7	164	Finding Bernie Madoff: Predicting Fraud by Investment Managers Stephen G. Dimmock, William Christopher Gerken, Michigan State University - Department of Finance, Auburn University - Department of Finance, Date posted to database: September 11, 2009 [5th last week]
8	153	Stranger Than Dictum: Why Arizona v. Gant Compels the Conclusion that Suspicionless Buie Searches Incident to Lawful Arrests are Unconstitutional Colin Miller, John Marshall Law School, Date posted to database: August 18, 2009 [7th last week]
9	134	The Experiential Future of the Law Adam J. Kolber, University of San Diego School of Law, Date posted to database: October 13, 2009 [new to top ten]
10	133	Competing Theories of Blackmail: An Empirical Research Critique of Criminal Law Theory Paul H. Robinson, Michael T. Cahill, Daniel M. Bartels, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago GSB, Date posted to database: September 23, 2009 [8th last week]