Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for November 18, 2025
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Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal
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As of: 14 Sep 2025 – 13 Nov 2025
| Rank | Paper | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Should Crypto Be Property? Robert Stevens Oxford University Faculty of Law | 752 |
| 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 | 315 |
| 3. | Property Without Law. Personalized Property Rights Through Smart Contracts on the Blockchain Stefan Bechtold, Giuseppe Dari‐Mattiacci, Edoardo 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 | 238 |
| 4. | Legal Aspects of the Entertainment Industry Lawrence J. Trautman, Wade Chumney, Adam Epstein, Valerie Flugge, Larry D. Foster II, Leslie Garbarino, Leslie Garbarino and Kurt M. Saunders Prairie View A&M University – College of Business, California State University Northridge, Central Michigan University – Department of Finance and Law, California State University, Northridge, University of Houston – Downtown – College of Business, Babson Collegeaffiliation not provided to SSRN and California State University, Northridge | 232 |
| 5. | Contract Law and the Common Good Prince Saprai University College London – Faculty of Laws | 208 |
| 6. | Liability Management Exercises: A Viable Restructuring Tool for Financially Distressed Companies in Nigeria? Abasi-Akara Edet Independent | 149 |
| 7. | Managing Legal Concepts: Maintenance, Modulation, Modification Andrew S. Gold and Henry E. Smith University of California, Irvine School of Law and Harvard Law School | 144 |
| 8. | GRAPH-GRPO-LEX: Contract Graph Modeling and Reinforcement Learning with Group Relative Policy Optimization Moriya Dechtiar, Daniel Martin Katz, Mari Sundaresan, Sylvain Jaume and Hongming Wang Harvard University, Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent College of Law, Georgetown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University | 129 |
| 9. | How Legalese Jeopardizes Enforceability Mark Cooney Cooley Law School | 128 |
| 10. | “FOOD FOR PEACE?” CAMBODIA’S 1970S DEBTS TO THE UNITED STATES Mark C. Weidemaier, Mitu Gulati and Ugo Panizza University of North Carolina School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) – Department of Economics | 123 |
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Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal
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As of: 14 Sep 2025 – 13 Nov 2025
| Rank | Paper | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Self-Driving” Means Self-Driving Bryant Walker Smith University of South Carolina – Joseph F. Rice School of Law | 474 |
| 2. | AI and Investment Services in EU Law: The Case for MiFID III Riccardo Ghetti, Claudio Novelli, Philipp 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 | 358 |
| 3. | Scrappy or Strategic? Law Firm Decision-Making in Light of Executive Orders Nancy B. Rapoport University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law | 173 |
| 4. | Remuneration of Music Creators in the Streaming Economy: Findings from Germany Jana Costas, Jana Costas, Patrick 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 | 142 |
| 5. | 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 | 141 |
| 6. | How Legalese Jeopardizes Enforceability Mark Cooney Cooley Law School | 128 |
| 7. | Coercive Settlements Gilat Juli Bachar Temple University – James E. Beasley School of Law | 103 |
| 8. | Flow Control: The Work of Collateral in Chinese Overseas Lending Anna Gelpern, Omar Haddad, Sebastian Horn, Paulina Kintzinger, Brad Parks and Christoph Trebesch Georgetown University Law Center, Georgetown University Law Center, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel Institute for the World Economy – IFW, College of William & Mary and Kiel Institute for the World Economy | 102 |
| 9. | Limits on Damages for Breach of a Forum Selection Clause John F. Coyle and Tanya J. Monestier University of North Carolina School of Law and University at Buffalo Law School | 83 |
| 10. | Harnessing the Unruly Horse: Public Policy in Contract Law Hanoch Dagan and Mark P. Gergen University of California, Berkeley – School of Law and University of California, Berkeley – School of Law | 70 |
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