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Spooky Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for October 31, 2023

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Why not drop a download into the trick-or-treater bags tonight? Contract law, as all who inhabit this space know, is always a treat. Happy Halloween from the blog and our scholarly “sponsors” listed below. As for me, all I want for Halloween is three more downloads to break the century mark for After FTX!

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 01 Sep 2023 – 31 Oct 2023

Rank Paper Downloads

1.

Contracts Part 1: Offer, Acceptance, Consideration

Angelo State University – Business Law
239
2.

Standardization and Innovation in Venture Capital Contracting: Evidence from Startup Company Charters

Stanford Law School
213
3.

Anticipated Contracts and Unjust Enrichment

The University of Western Australia
168
4.

After FTX: Can the Original Bitcoin Use Case Be Saved?

Texas A&M University School of Law
97
5.

The Validity of Derivatives Contracts. Legal Doctrine as a Vehicle of Dialogues over ‘Speculation’

Charles III University of Madrid
84
6.

Procurement and Artificial Intelligence

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
80
7.

An Introduction to Personal Growth Bets: Using Contract Law to Lose Weight and Quit Smoking

New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
78
8.

Smart Courts, Smart Contracts, and the Future of Online Dispute Resolution

The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Law and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – Centre for Chinese & Comparative Law
71
9.

The Persistent Limits of Fraud Prevention in Historical Perspective

Northwestern University School of Law
71
10.

What Is the University-Student Contract?

Northwestern University – Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University School of Law
59

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 01 Sep 2023 – 31 Oct 2023

Rank Paper Downloads
1.

Contracts Part 1: Offer, Acceptance, Consideration

Angelo State University – Business Law
239
2.

Anticipated Contracts and Unjust Enrichment

The University of Western Australia
168
3.

After FTX: Can the Original Bitcoin Use Case Be Saved?

Texas A&M University School of Law
97
4.

The Persistent Limits of Fraud Prevention in Historical Perspective

Northwestern University School of Law
71
5.

Intellectual Property Rights and Private Law Entitlements

University of California, Berkeley – School of Law
44
6.

When Should Non-performance of Contracts Be Excused Under Changed Circumstances?

Copenhagen Business School – CBS Law
39
7.

Treu und Glauben: Frag GPT (Good Faith: Ask GPT)

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
36
8.

Clarifying Section 7 to Accommodate OArb

Ohio State University (OSU) – Michael E. Moritz College of Law
27
9.

Property Law at the Transition to Exponential Growth: Examples from Japan

University of Tokyo – Faculty of Law and Harvard Law School
22
10.

Is Justice Possible in Russian Courts? A Case Study of Housing Disputes

University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
16

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