Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for December 2, 2025
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By Mark Burge
December 2, 2025
Top Downloads For:
Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal
Recent Top Papers (60 days)
As of: 28 Sep 2025 – 27 Nov 2025
| Rank | Paper | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Should Crypto Be Property? Robert Stevens Oxford University Faculty of Law | 783 |
| 2. | 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, affiliation not provided to SSRN and California State University, Northridge | 260 |
| 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 | 251 |
| 4. | Can Parents Sell Their Children’s Property? A Property Law Perspective Rachel Leow London School of Economics – Law School | 180 |
| 5. | Toward A Normative Framework For A Payment Stablecoin Financial Market Infrastructure Alessandro Cocco Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | 175 |
| 6. | Managing Legal Concepts: Maintenance, Modulation, Modification Andrew S. Gold and Henry E. Smith University of California, Irvine School of Law and Harvard Law School | 158 |
| 7. | Liability Management Exercises: A Viable Restructuring Tool for Financially Distressed Companies in Nigeria? Abasi-Akara Edet Independent | 153 |
| 8. | The Application of Contracts Ryan Catterwell University of Queensland | 150 |
| 9. | How Legalese Jeopardizes Enforceability Mark Cooney Cooley Law School | 143 |
| 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 | 140 |
Top Downloads For:
Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal
Recent Top Papers (60 days)
As of: 28 Sep 2025 – 27 Nov 2025
| Rank | Paper | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Self-Driving” Means Self-Driving Bryant Walker Smith University of South Carolina – Joseph F. Rice School of Law | 908 |
| 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 | 363 |
| 3. | Can Parents Sell Their Children’s Property? A Property Law Perspective Rachel Leow London School of Economics – Law School | 180 |
| 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 | 157 |
| 5. | How Legalese Jeopardizes Enforceability Mark Cooney Cooley Law School | 143 |
| 6. | 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 | 116 |
| 7. | Artificial Intimacy: The Ethics and Law of Emotional Reliance on Generative AI Akinola O. Marian affiliation not provided to SSRN | 84 |
| 8. | PRICL and English Reinsurance Contract Law Franziska Arnold-Dwyer University College London | 68 |
| 9. | Degrees of Loyalty Lionel Smith Oxford University Faculty of Law | 65 |
| 10. | Accessories, Constructive Trusts and set-off in Equity: Stevens v Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd Aryan Mohseni The University of Sydney Law School | 64 |
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