Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

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Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	291	The Emerging Criminal War on Sex Offenders Corey Rayburn Yung, The John Marshall Law School, Date posted to database: August 18, 2009
2	259	Blaming the Brain Steven K. Erickson, University of Missouri at Columbia - School of Law, Date posted to database: September 12, 2009 [3rd last week]
3	239	The Torture Lawyers Jens David Ohlin, Cornell Law School, Date posted to database: September 10, 2009 [2nd last week]
4	237	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
5	184	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
6	181	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
7	148	The Experiential Future of the Law Adam J. Kolber, University of San Diego School of Law, Date posted to database: October 13, 2009
8	141	Incarceration American-Style Sharon Dolovich, University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law, Date posted to database: October 13, 2009
9	139	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
10	132	The Abu Omar Case in Italy: ‘Extraordinary Renditions’ and State Obligations to Criminalize and Prosecute Torture Under the UN Torture Convention Francesco Messineo, University of Cambridge, Date posted to database: August 26, 2009