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Tuesday Top Ten – Top SSRN Contracts and Commercial Law Downloads for September 23, 2025

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Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

As of: 25 Jul 2025 – 23 Sep 2025

RankPaperDownloads
1.The Ordinary Meaning Bot: Simulating Human Surveys with LLMs
Johannes Kruse
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
2,093
2.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
1,925
3.Before We Begin: Defining Contract
Robert Stevens
Oxford University Faculty of Law
1,035
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
191
5.Contract Law and the Common Good
Prince Saprai
University College London – Faculty of Laws
181
6.Solving for Agreement
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law
122
7.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
110
8.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
108
9.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
101
10.The Silicon Reasonable Person: Can AI Predict How People Judge Reasonableness?
Yonathan A. Arbel
University of Alabama – School of Law
85

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

As of: 25 Jul 2025 – 23 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
332
2.What the Realists Got Right
Paul B. Miller
Notre Dame Law School
191
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
152
4.Consumer Protection and Climate Change
Tiffanie ChanJuliana Velez-EcheverriJoana Setzer and Catherine Higham
London School of Economics and Political Science, Independent, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and Grantham Research Institute
126
5.Solving for Agreement
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law
122
6.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
108
7.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
101
8.Formalism For Realists: Legal Doctrine as A Public Norm in the Creation of Legal Artifacts
Thilo Kuntz
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
92
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
78
10.Rights Architecture For Legal Organizations 
Tomer Stein
The University of Alabama School of Law
77
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