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Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for October 14, 2025

Checking out the SSRN charts in our favorite subject areas!
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Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

As of: 10 Aug 2025 – 09 Oct 2025

RankPaperDownloads
1.Should Crypto Be Property?
Robert Stevens
Oxford University Faculty of Law
514
2.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
211
3.Contract Law and the Common Good
Prince Saprai
University College London – Faculty of Laws
192
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
180
5.Property Without Law. Personalized Property Rights Through Smart Contracts on the Blockchain
Stefan BechtoldGiuseppe Dari‐MattiacciEdoardo D. Martino and Gideon Parchomovsky
ETH Zürich, University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam – University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Faculty of Law University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
164
6.Solving for Agreement
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law
130
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
117
8.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
115
9.Product Liability Law in the Age of AI
Mark Geistfeld
New York University School of Law
108
10.The Silicon Reasonable Person: Can AI Predict How People Judge Reasonableness?
Yonathan A. Arbel
University of Alabama – School of Law
91

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

As of: 10 Aug 2025 – 09 Oct 2025

RankPaperDownloads
1.Causation and Climate Change in Tort
Sandy Steel and Mark Geistfeld
University of Oxford and New York University School of Law
363
2.AI and Investment Services in EU Law: The Case for MiFID III
Riccardo GhettiClaudio NovelliPhilipp Hacker and Luciano Floridi
University of Bologna – Faculty of Law, Yale University – Digital Ethics Center, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) – European New School of Digital Studies and Yale University – Digital Ethics Center
281
3.What the Realists Got Right
Paul B. Miller
Notre Dame Law School
210
4.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
192
5.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
180
6.Solving for Agreement
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law
130
7.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
115
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
113
9.Remuneration of Music Creators in the Streaming Economy: Findings from Germany
Jana CostasJana CostasPatrick Vonderau and Philipp Hacker
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) – European New School of Digital Studies
111
10.The Psychology of Serial Killers: What Drives Them?
Mounica Bai Rajput and Rajput Bhavana Bai
Independent and IndependentDate
106