Return of the Weekly Top Ten! Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads for June 21, 2018

June 21, 2018

After a thoroughly unplanned hiatus for early 2018, the Weekly Top Ten SSRN Downloads List returns to ContractsProf Blog. Hot topics include smart contracts, forum selection, and good faith. Enjoy!

Top SSRN Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 22 Apr 2018 – 21 Jun 2018

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Data Pollution Omri Ben-Shahar University of Chicago Law School	151
2.	Legal Engineering on the Blockchain: ‘Smart Contracts’ as Legal Conduct Jake Goldenfein and Andrea Leiter Swinburne University of Technology – Swinburne Law School and University of Melbourne, Law School	138
3.	The Stakes of Smart Contracts Mark Verstraete University of Arizona – James E. Rogers College of Law	127
4.	The Interpretation and Effect of Permissive Forum Selection Clauses Under U.S. Law Hannah L. Buxbaum Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law	123
5.	Teaching Fairness to Artificial Intelligence: Existing and Novel Strategies Against Algorithmic Discrimination Under EU Law Philipp Hacker Humboldt University of Berlin	116
6.	Secured Transactions and IP Licenses: Comparative Observations and Reform Suggestions Andrea Tosato University of Nottingham – School of Law	116
7.	Why Markets? Welfare, Autonomy, and the Just Society Hanoch Dagan Tel Aviv University – Buchmann Faculty of Law	103
8.	Collateral Damage: Brexit’s Negative Effects on Regulatory Competition and Legal Innovation in Private Law Horst Eidenmueller University of Oxford	82
9.	Equity as Supplemental Law Paul B. Miller Notre Dame Law School	82
10.	Contract and Consumer Law Vanessa Mak Tilburg Law School	74

Top SSRN Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 22 Apr 2018 – 21 Jun 2018

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	The Forgotten History of Metes and Bounds Maureen (Molly) Brady University of Virginia – School of Law	292
2.	Data Pollution Omri Ben-Shahar University of Chicago Law School	151
3.	A Duty to ‘Save’ Seemingly Non-Compliant Tenders for Public Contracts? – Comments on Art 72 of the 2017 Portuguese Code of Public Contracts Albert Sanchez-Graells University of Bristol – School of Law	140
4.	The Stakes of Smart Contracts Mark Verstraete University of Arizona – James E. Rogers College of Law	127
5.	The Interpretation and Effect of Permissive Forum Selection Clauses Under U.S. Law Hannah L. Buxbaum Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law	123
6.	Secured Transactions and IP Licenses: Comparative Observations and Reform Suggestions Andrea Tosato University of Nottingham – School of Law	116
7.	Contract and Consumer Law Vanessa Mak Tilburg Law School	74
8.	The Evolution of Good Faith in Western Contract Law Samuel Martin Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Students	74
9.	Force Majeure and Excuses in Smart Contracts Eric Tjong Tjin Tai Tilburg Law School	72
10.	Interpreting Contracts Without Context John F. Coyle and Mark C. Weidemaier University of North Carolina School of Law and University of North Carolina School of Law	67

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