Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

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Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	406	Who’s Better at Defending Criminals? Does Type of Defense Attorney Matter in Terms of Producing Favorable Case Outcomes Thomas H. Cohen, U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Date posted to database: July 1, 2011
2	298	Tough on Crime (on the State's Dime): How Violent Crime Does Not Drive California Counties' Incarceration Rates - And Why it Should W. David Ball, Santa Clara School of Law, Date posted to database: June 28, 2011
3	240	Radical Thought from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, Through Foucault, to the Present: Comments on Steven Lukes’ ‘In Defense of False Consciousness’ Bernard E. Harcourt, University of Chicago - Law School, Date posted to database: June 19, 2011
4	219	Re-Thinking Illegal Entry and Re-Entry Doug Keller, Georgetown University Law Center , Date posted to database: July 14, 2011
5	171	The Causes of Growth in Prison Admissions and Populations John F. Pfaff, Fordham University - School of Law, Date posted to database: July 15, 2011
6	170	What is Securities Fraud? Samuel W. Buell, Duke University School of Law, Date posted to database: June 27, 2011
7	159	Mass Exoneration Data and the Causes of Wrongful Convictions Russell D. Covey, Georgia State University College of Law, Date posted to database: July 8, 2011
8	131	Rawls' Concept of Reflective Equilibrium and its Original Function in 'A Theory of Justice' John Mikhail, Georgetown University - Law Center, Date posted to database: July 21, 2011
9	129	Solicitation, Extortion, and the FCPA Joseph W. Yockey, University of Iowa College of Law, Date posted to database: July 28, 2011 [new to top ten]
10	122	Last Chance on Death Row William Baude, Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP, Date posted to database: July 11, 2011 [9th last week]