Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads for May 2, 2023

May 2, 2023

Greetings, dear readers, and welcome back to our weekly peek at what’s burning up the download charts for our favorite topics on SSRN.

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 03 Mar 2023 – 02 May 2023

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Algorithmic Black Swans Noam Kolt University of Toronto	1,191
2.	How ChatGPT and Generative AI Systems will Revolutionize Legal Services and the Legal Profession Rupert Macey-Dare St Cross College – University of Oxford	408
3.	Emerging Technology’s Unfamiliarity with Commercial Law Carla Reyes Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law	386
4.	The Scope of the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act: Thoughts on the Conflict of Laws Tobias Lutzi University of Augsburg	269
5.	Do Firms Value Court Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements? A Revealed Preference Approach Takuya Hiraiwa, Michael Lipsitz and Evan Starr University of Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics and University of Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business	266
6.	Law and Courts in an Age of Debt Jared A. Ellias and Elisabeth de Fontenay Harvard Law School and Duke University School of Law	251
7.	A Theory of the REIT Jason Oh and Andrew Verstein University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – School of Law	197
8.	Privately Policing Dark Patterns Gregory M. Dickinson St. Thomas University – School of Law	156
9.	Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Smart Contracts and Contracts: The Need for Legal and Technology Assurances Joshua Ellul and Ioannis Revolidis University of Malta and University of Malta, Centre for Distributed Ledger Technologies and Department of Media, Communications & Technology Law	134
10.	Artificial Intelligence and Contract Formation: Back to Contract as Bargain? John Linarelli Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center	133

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 03 Mar 2023 – 02 May 2023

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Beyond Trade Secrecy: Confidentiality Agreements That Act Like Noncompetes Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Christopher B. Seaman University of Akron School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law	291
2.	Do Firms Value Court Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements? A Revealed Preference Approach Takuya Hiraiwa, Michael Lipsitz and Evan Starr University of Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics and University of Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business	266
3.	Privately Policing Dark Patterns Gregory M. Dickinson St. Thomas University – School of Law	156
4.	Artificial Intelligence and Contract Formation: Back to Contract as Bargain? John Linarelli Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center	133
5.	Fractionalizing Investment Securities: Using FinTech to Expand Financial Inclusion Steven L. Schwarcz and Robert Bourret Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law	112
6.	When Private Law Theory Is Close Enough Andrew S. Gold Brooklyn Law School	103
7.	Specific Performance Felipe Jiménez USC Gould School of Law	84
8.	Hidden Contracts Samuel Becher and Uri Benoliel Victoria University of Wellington and College of Law and Business – Ramat Gan Law School	83
9.	A Genealogy of Private Law Epistemologies Marietta Auer Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory	82
10.	Agreement N. W. Sage London School of Economics – Law Department	55

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