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Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for September 2, 2025

What is the latest and greatest in downloadable contract scholarship?
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Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

As of: 01 Aug 2025 – 30 Sep 2025

RankPaperDownloads
1.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
2,116
2.The Ordinary Meaning Bot: Simulating Human Surveys with LLMs
Johannes Kruse
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
2,093
3.Before We Begin: Defining Contract
Robert Stevens
Oxford University Faculty of Law
1,059
4.The Limits of Regulating AI Safety Through Liability and Insurance: Lessons From Cybersecurity
Daniel Schwarcz and Josephine Wolff
University of Minnesota Law School and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
195
5.Contract Law and the Common Good
Prince Saprai
University College London – Faculty of Laws
186
6.Swiss Cheese Contracts: The Costs of Creative Lawyering
Stephen J. ChoiMitu GulatiMatthew Jennejohn and Robert E. Scott
New York University School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark Law School and Columbia University – Law School
159
7.Solving for Agreement
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law
128
8.Levers of Default: Can the President Unilaterally Alter the Terms of the National Debt?
Lev E. Breydo and Nathan B. Oman
William & Mary Law School and William & Mary Law School
116
9.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
111
10.Product Liability Law in the Age of AI
Mark Geistfeld
New York University School of Law
101

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

As of: 01 Aug 2025 – 30 Sep 2025

RankPaperDownloads
1.Causation and Climate Change in Tort
Sandy Steel and Mark Geistfeld
University of Oxford and New York University School of Law
354
2.What the Realists Got Right
Paul B. Miller
Notre Dame Law School
201
3.Enabling Innovation and Protecting Consumers in the Agentic Economy: Why the Digital Fairness Act Should Regulate Agentic AI
Christoph Busch
University of Osnabrück – European Legal Studies Institute
173
4.Swiss Cheese Contracts: The Costs of Creative Lawyering Stephen J. ChoiMitu GulatiMatthew Jennejohn and Robert E. Scott
New York University School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark Law School and Columbia University – Law School
159
5.Solving for Agreement
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law
128
6.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
111
7.Formalism For Realists: Legal Doctrine as A Public Norm in the Creation of Legal Artifacts
Thilo KuntzHeinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
100
8.Compatibility of subscription-based models with Article 5 (2) of the DMA Case Study: Commission v Meta Platforms Inc
Thomas Hoeren and Nora-Marie Fuchs
ITM Münster (FRG) and University of Münster
98
9.Trustees with Absolute Discretions -a Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in the New Zealand Courts
Peter G. Watts and Peter G. Watts
University of Auckland – Faculty of Law
79
10.Coercive Settlements
Gilat Juli Bachar
Temple University – James E. Beasley School of Law
78
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