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Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for November 4, 2025

Checking the charts as November starts!
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Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

As of: 31 Aug 2025 – 30 Oct 2025

RankPaperDownloads
1.Should Crypto Be Property?
Robert Stevens
Oxford University Faculty of Law
694
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
247
3.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
207
4.Contract Law and the Common Good
Prince Saprai
University College London – Faculty of Laws
203
5.Product Liability Law in the Age of AI
Mark Geistfeld
New York University School of Law
152
6.Solving for Agreement
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law
145
7.Liability Management Exercises: A Viable Restructuring Tool for Financially Distressed Companies in Nigeria? 
Abasi-Akara Edet
Independent
133
8.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
132
9.GRAPH-GRPO-LEX: Contract Graph Modeling and Reinforcement Learning with Group Relative Policy Optimization
Moriya DechtiarDaniel Martin KatzMari SundaresanSylvain Jaume and Hongming Wang
Harvard University, Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent College of Law, Georgetown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University
120
10.Managing Legal Concepts: Maintenance, Modulation, Modification
Andrew S. Gold and Henry E. Smith
University of California, Irvine School of Law and Harvard Law School
118

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

As of: 31 Aug 2025 – 30 Oct 2025

RankPaperDownloads
1.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
353
2.What the Realists Got Right
Paul B. Miller
Notre Dame Law School
225
3.“Self-Driving” Means Self-Driving
Bryant Walker Smith
University of South Carolina – Joseph F. Rice School of Law
212
4.The Psychology of Serial Killers: What Drives Them?
Mounica Bai Rajput and Rajput Bhavana Bai
Independent and Independent
165
5.Solving for Agreement
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law
145
6.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
133
7.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
131
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
129
9.Formalism For Realists: Legal Doctrine as A Public Norm in the Creation of Legal Artifacts
Thilo Kuntz
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
124
10.How Legalese Jeopardizes Enforceability
Mark Cooney
Cooley Law School
110
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