“Constructive Tuesday” Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for June 25, 2025

June 25, 2025

We are occasionally a day late, but never a dollar short! Welcome to this belated edition of the Tuesday Top Ten, falling on a Wednesday but otherwise chock full of all the current content you’ve come to expect from ContractsProf Blog. Of special note this week is a brewing dispute between #1 and #10 on the Private Law – Contracts chart. Does the form know best, or it is completely ignorant? Let’s see what hot there and elsewhere in summer contract and commercial law scholarship:

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 26 Apr 2025 – 25 Jun 2025

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	The Form Knows Best Tara Chowdhury, Faith Chudkowski and Mitu Gulati University of Virginia – School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law	336
2.	INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL COURTS ‘MADE IN GERMANY’: ATTRACTIVE ALTERNATIVE FOR BIG BUSINESS? Giesela Ruhl and Nicolas Dewitte Langenfeld Humboldt University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin – Faculty of Law	246
3.	Precedent Terms Vincent S.J. Buccola and David A. Hoffman University of Chicago – Law School and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School	222
4.	The Public Policy Exception in Choice of Law: The American Version Symeon Symeonides Willamette University – School of Law	194
5.	Using Insurance for Natural Hazard Loss Prevention Franziska Arnold-Dwyer University College London	183
6.	Reflections from Fifty Years in the Conflicts Vineyard Symeon Symeonides Willamette University – School of Law	151
7.	The Protean Procurement Act Justin Van Orsdol University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law	134
8.	Consumer Vulnerability: A Genealogy Mateusz Grochowski Tulane University School of Law	124
9.	Did Copyright Fail Music Artists? Rachel Landy Yeshiva University – Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law	102
10.	The Form Doesn’t Know Anything: A Response to Chowdhury, Chudkowski & Gulati Glenn D. West Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP	88

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 26 Apr 2025 – 25 Jun 2025

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	The Form Knows Best Tara Chowdhury, Faith Chudkowski and Mitu Gulati University of Virginia – School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law	336
2.	Resolving Civil-Commercial Disputes through Mediation in Pakistan: Legal Framework, Sector-Specific Application, and Digital Trends Daniyal Shoukat Wakalat Online LLP	271
3.	Reflections from Fifty Years in the Conflicts Vineyard Symeon Symeonides Willamette University – School of Law	151
4.	Consumer Vulnerability: A Genealogy Mateusz Grochowski Tulane University School of Law	124
5.	Remoteness of Damage in Contract Nicholas McBride University of Cambridge – Faculty of Law	86
6.	The Contractualization of Disability Rights Law Yaron Covo Yale University – Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy	71
7.	Private Rights: Artificial but Not Instrumental Rebecca Stone University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – School of Law	70
8.	Climate Lies & Unjust Profits Vanessa Casado Pérez, Yotam Kaplan, Yael R. Lifshitz and Niv Meyerson Texas A&M University School of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, King’s College London and Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Faculty of Law	59
9.	The Knowledge Gap in Contract Law Mateusz Grochowski Tulane University School of Law	58
10.	ENFORCING & ARBITRATING NIL FAIR-MARKET VALUE Josh Lens University of Iowa	57

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