Weekly Top Ten–October 24, 2010

Christopher Lewis Peterson (smiling at right) again tops our weekly Top Ten list. It’s been a pretty impressive couple of months for Peterson—his Two Faces paper (noted below) has in less than a month become the third most-downloaded contract-related paper in the history of SSRN, while another of his papers has now become the tenth most-downloaded on the all-time list. Peterson is the only scholar with two papers in the all-time top ten.

Following are the top ten most_downloaded papers from the SSRN Journal of Contract and Commercial Law for the sixty days ending October 24, 2010.  (Last week’s rank in parentheses.)

1 (1)  Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System’s Land Title Theory, Christopher Lewis Peterson (Utah).

2 (2)  Good Faith and Contract Interpretation: A Law and Economics Perspective, Simone M. Sepe (Arizona).

3 (8)  The Need for Insurance Policy Transparency, Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota).

4 (3)  Regulating Systemic Risk, Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke) & Iman Anabtawi (UCLA).

5 (7)  Misbehavioral Economics: The Case Against Behavioral Antitrust, Joshua D. Wright (Geo. Mason) & Judd E. Stone (Int’l Ctr. for Law & Econ.).

6 (4)  Taking Punitive Damages Seriously: Why a French Court Did Not Recognize An American Decision Awarding Punitive Damages and Why it Should Have, François-Xavier Licari (Metz).

7 (6)  A Moral Rights Theory of the Private Law, Andrew S. Gold (DePaul).

8 (6)  Arbitration as Delegation, David Horton (Loyola-L.A.).

9 (10)  Comparing CEO Employment Contract Provisions: Differences between Australia and the U.S., Jennifer G. Hill (Sydney), Ronald W. Masulis (New South Wales_Business) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt).

10 (9) The Conundrum of Covered Bonds, Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke).

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