Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads for January 17, 2023

January 17, 2023

Belated happy new year from this corner of the blog as the Tuesday Top Ten returns from a holiday hiatus! What have our friends and colleagues been posting and downloading from SSRN to start the year in contracts and commercial law? The law-and-society branch of contract scholarship is down to a top five at the moment, making for a great article submission opportunity. Let’s take a look at both major lists to see what’s up:

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 18 Nov 2022 – 17 Jan 2023

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Le rôle passé de la cause au stade de la formation du contrat (« Cause » and the Formation of Contracts) Samuel Fulli-Lemaire Centre de droit privé fondamental (CDPF), University of Strasbourg	119
2.	The Textual Canons in Contract Cases: A Preliminary Study Ethan J. Leib Fordham University School of Law	112
3.	Smart Contracts: Elements, Pathologies and Remedies Andrea Stazi European University of Rome – Faculty of Law	103
4.	Multistate Business Entities Andrew D. Appleby and Tomer Stein Stetson University College of Law and Stetson University College of Law	91
5.	Restatements and the Common Law Andrew S. Gold and Henry E. Smith Brooklyn Law School and Harvard Law School	86
6.	An Overview of the Development of Maldivian Contract Law and its Sources Husnu Al Suood Maldives Law Institute	78
7.	Response to the Law Commission’s Digital Assets Consultation Paper Johan David Michels and Christopher Millard Queen Mary University of London, School of Law – Centre for Commercial Law Studies and Queen Mary University of London, School of Law – Centre for Commercial Law Studies	59
8.	Metaverse and Its Regulation Omer Aamir Georgetown University Law Center	52
9.	Stare Decisis and the Status of California’s Super Pension Contract T. Leigh Anenson and Jennifer Gershberg University of Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business and University of Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business	45
10.	Nonconsensual Family Obligations Emily Stolzenberg Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law	31

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 18 Nov 2022 – 17 Jan 2023

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Le rôle passé de la cause au stade de la formation du contrat (« Cause » and the Formation of Contracts) Samuel Fulli-Lemaire Centre de droit privé fondamental (CDPF), University of Strasbourg	119
2.	The Textual Canons in Contract Cases: A Preliminary Study Ethan J. Leib Fordham University School of Law	112
3.	Arbitration Agreements as Executory Contracts in Bankruptcy After Mission Products Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology Stephen J. Ware University of Kansas – School of Law	66
4.	Administrative Browbeating and Insurance Markets George A. Mocsary University of Wyoming College of Law	23
5.	Adhesive Terms and Reasonable Notice Nancy S. Kim Chicago-Kent College of Law – Illinois Institute of Technology	23

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