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Jeremy-Telman

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Official Blog of the AALS Section on Contracts

Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for August 12, 2025

August 12, 2025

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 13 Jun 2025 – 12 Aug 2025

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Before We Begin: Defining Contract Robert Stevens Oxford University Faculty of Law	856
2.	The Ordinary Meaning Bot: Simulating Human Surveys with LLMs Johannes Kruse Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods	613
3.	The Value of Finance Journals Douglas J. Cumming Stevens Institute of Technology – School of Business	596
4.	Regulating Stablecoins: Comparing MiCAR and the GENIUS Act Christopher K. Odinet and Andrea Tosato Texas A&M University School of Law and Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law	345
5.	The Time-Is-Of-The-Essence Clause In M&A Agreements Glenn D. West and Mitu Gulati Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and University of Virginia School of Law	259
6.	Clause and Effect Lee C. Buchheit and Mitu Gulati Center for Contract and Economic Organization and University of Virginia School of Law	196
7.	Account of Profits in Dishonest Assistance, the “Equal Rigour” Principle, and the Retreat from “Status” Weiming Tan National University of Singapore (NUS) – Faculty of Law	187
8.	Corporate Due Process Jonathan C. Lipson and Eli Alexander Evans Temple University – James E. Beasley School of Law and Temple University Beasley School of Law	149
9.	Merger Remedies Unbound Dhruv Aggarwal, Albert H. Choi and Geeyoung Min Northwestern University – Pritzker School of Law, University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University – College of Law	135
10.	Recharacterizing Contracts: The Sale-versus-Loan Problem of Receivables Financing Steven L. Schwarcz and Isabelle Stewart Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law, Students	127

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 13 Jun 2025 – 12 Aug 2025

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	LLMs are Bad Judges. So use Our Classifier Instead. Jack Kieffaber, Kimo Gandall, Steven M. Foster Jr. and Kenny McLaren Harvard University – Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Harvard Law School, University of Chicago Law School and Harvard University – Harvard Law School	1,048
2.	The Time-Is-Of-The-Essence Clause In M&A Agreements Glenn D. West and Mitu Gulati Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and University of Virginia School of Law	259
3.	Causation and Climate Change in Tort Sandy Steel and Mark Geistfeld University of Oxford and New York University School of Law	201
4.	Crypto Regulation in the Time of Trump Lawrence J. Trautman Prairie View A&M University – College of Business	191
5.	Account of Profits in Dishonest Assistance, the “Equal Rigour” Principle, and the Retreat from “Status” Weiming Tan National University of Singapore (NUS) – Faculty of Law	187
6.	Scalable Fairness Gianclaudio Malgieri Universiteit Leiden, eLaw	182
7.	Corporate Due Process Jonathan C. Lipson and Eli Alexander Evans Temple University – James E. Beasley School of Law and Temple University Beasley School of Law	149
8.	Personhood as Participation James Toomey University of Iowa – College of Law	97
9.	Consumer Protection and Climate Change Tiffanie Chan, Juliana Velez-Echeverri, Joana Setzer and Catherine Higham London School of Economics and Political Science, Independent, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and Grantham Research Institute	69
10.	The Many Beneficiaries of Liberal Contract Hanoch Dagan and Mark P. Gergen University of California, Berkeley – School of Law and University of California, Berkeley – School of Law	68

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