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Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for December 16, 2025

The Top Ten is only top nine at the moment, but we'll take it anyway!
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Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

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As of: 12 Oct 2025 – 11 Dec 2025

RankPaperDownloads
1.The Global Law of Debt
Jared A. Ellias and Narine Lalafaryan
Harvard Law School and University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law		700
2.Privacy’s Autonomy Thicket: Disentangling Choice, Consent, and Control
Neil M. Richards, Woodrow Hartzog and Jordan Francis
Washington University School of Law, Boston University School of Law and Future of Privacy Forum		307
3.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 College, Independent – affiliation not provided to SSRN and California State University, Northridge		277
4.Toward A Normative Framework For A Payment Stablecoin Financial Market Infrastructure
Alessandro Cocco
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago		236
5.Can Parents Sell Their Children’s Property? A Property Law Perspective
Rachel Leow
London School of Economics – Law School		196
6.The Application of Contracts
Ryan Catterwell
University of Queensland		161
7.Sanctions in International Trade: Legal Framework and Contractual Implications
Alina Olegovna Butrim and Alina Olegovna Butrim
Independent – affiliation not provided to SSRN, Independent researcher		158
8.Liability Management Exercises: A Viable Restructuring Tool for Financially Distressed Companies in Nigeria? 
Abasi-Akara Edet
Independent		156
9.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
140

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Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

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As of: 12 Oct 2025 – 11 Dec 2025

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1.“Self-Driving” Means Self-Driving
Bryant Walker Smith
University of South Carolina – Joseph F. Rice School of Law		957
2.Can Parents Sell Their Children’s Property? A Property Law Perspective
Rachel Leow
London School of Economics – Law School		196
3.Artificial Intimacy: The Ethics and Law of Emotional Reliance on Generative AI
Akinola O. Marian
Independent – affiliation not provided to SSRN		103
4.The Many Kinds of Justice in Private Law
Andrew S. Gold
University of California, Irvine School of Law		89
5.PRICL and English Reinsurance Contract Law
Franziska Arnold-Dwyer
University College London		77
6.The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act and Textualism
David Horton
University of California, Davis – School of Law		75
7.Obligation and Duty-Two Things or One?
Lionel Smith
University of Oxford – Faculty of Law		70
8.Vicarious Liability and the Triumph of Form in Bird: Coming Home to Roost?
Aryan Mohseni and Zachary Gomes
The University of Sydney Law School and University of Sydney		65
9.Agency and Conduct of Business Rules: Lessons from the Motor Finance Saga in the UK 
Iain MacNeil and Katarzyna Chałaczkiewicz-Ładna
University of Glasgow – School of Law and University of Glasgow		49
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