Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for December 9, 2025
Making some lists and checking them twice!
By Mark Burge
December 9, 2025
Top Downloads For:
Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal
Recent Top Papers (60 days)
As of: 05 Oct 2025 – 04 Dec 2025
| Rank | Paper | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 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 | 276 |
| 2. | Toward A Normative Framework For A Payment Stablecoin Financial Market Infrastructure Alessandro Cocco Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | 205 |
| 3. | Can Parents Sell Their Children’s Property? A Property Law Perspective Rachel Leow London School of Economics – Law School | 189 |
| 4. | 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 | 177 |
| 5. | Managing Legal Concepts: Maintenance, Modulation, Modification Andrew S. Gold and Henry E. Smith University of California, Irvine School of Law and Harvard Law School | 161 |
| 6. | Liability Management Exercises: A Viable Restructuring Tool for Financially Distressed Companies in Nigeria? Abasi-Akara Edet Independent | 156 |
| 7. | The Application of Contracts Ryan Catterwell University of Queensland | 153 |
| 8. | How Legalese Jeopardizes Enforceability Mark Cooney Cooley Law School | 151 |
| 9. | “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 | 146 |
| 10. | 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 | 139 |
Top Downloads For:
Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal
Recent Top Papers (60 days)
As of: 05 Oct 2025 – 04 Dec 2025
| Rank | Paper | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Self-Driving” Means Self-Driving Bryant Walker Smith University of South Carolina – Joseph F. Rice School of Law | 946 |
| 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 | 366 |
| 3. | Can Parents Sell Their Children’s Property? A Property Law Perspective Rachel Leow London School of Economics – Law School | 189 |
| 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 | 165 |
| 5. | How Legalese Jeopardizes Enforceability Mark Cooney Cooley Law School | 151 |
| 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 | 121 |
| 7. | Artificial Intimacy: The Ethics and Law of Emotional Reliance on Generative AI Akinola O. Marian affiliation not provided to SSRN | 97 |
| 8. | The Many Kinds of Justice in Private Law Andrew S. Gold University of California, Irvine School of Law | 80 |
| 9. | PRICL and English Reinsurance Contract Law Franziska Arnold-Dwyer University College London | 76 |
| 10. | From an Interpretive Tool to Substantive Law: The Apotheosis of Good Faith in CISG Jurisprudence Peter J. Mazzacano Florida State University – College of Law | 75 |
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