Weekly Top Ten SSRN Contracts Downloads (January 5, 2017)

January 5, 2017

As AALS continues in full swing in San Francisco, let’s take a moment to glance at our first Top Ten Downloads lists for 2017:

SSRN Top Downloads For
Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	457	Risk and Anxiety: A Theory of Data Breach Harms Daniel J. Solove and Danielle Keats Citron George Washington University Law School and University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
2	311	Why Have M&A Contracts Grown? Evidence from Twenty Years of Deals John C. Coates, IV Harvard Law School
3	189	The Promise and Problems of Universal, General Theories of Contract Law Brian Bix University of Minnesota Law School
4	122	The Commercial Law of Bitcoin and Blocktrain Transactions Stephen M. McJohn and Ian McJohn Suffolk University Law School and Independent
5	120	Contractual Estoppel and the Misrepresentation Act 1967 Richard Hooley University of Cambridge – Faculty of Law
6	102	Introduction to Contract, Status, and Fiduciary Law Paul B. Miller and Andrew S. Gold McGill University Faculty of Law and DePaul University College of Law
7	95	The New Lex Mercatoria: An Emerging Challenge to Legal Systems in Cross-Border Transactions Jan H. Hendrik Dalhuisen King’s College London
8	93	Local Governments and Risky Home Loans Kathleen C. Engel Suffolk University Law School
9	93	Excessive Contractual Penalties in Football Despina Mavromati Court of Arbitration for Sport
10	88	The Corporation as Courthouse Rory Van Loo Boston University School of Law

SSRN Top Downloads For
Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	311	Why Have M&A Contracts Grown? Evidence from Twenty Years of Deals John C. Coates, IV Harvard Law School
2	189	The Promise and Problems of Universal, General Theories of Contract Law Brian Bix University of Minnesota Law School
3	120	Contractual Estoppel and the Misrepresentation Act 1967 Richard Hooley University of Cambridge – Faculty of Law
4	102	Introduction to Contract, Status, and Fiduciary Law Paul B. Miller and Andrew S. Gold McGill University Faculty of Law and DePaul University College of Law
5	95	The New Lex Mercatoria: An Emerging Challenge to Legal Systems in Cross-Border Transactions Jan H. Hendrik Dalhuisen King’s College London
6	93	Excessive Contractual Penalties in Football Despina Mavromati Court of Arbitration for Sport
7	88	The Corporation as Courthouse Rory Van Loo Boston University School of Law
8	88	Remedies Ariel Porat Tel Aviv University
9	82	Drafting for Dispute Resolution John M. Newman University of Memphis – Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
10	73	Failures in Law Making: The Case of Arbitration Law in India Badrinath Srinivasan Independent

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