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Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for October 7, 2025

Check out who is burning up the download charts this week!
Top-10 Block Letters

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

As of: 03 Aug 2025 – 02 Oct 2025

RankPaperDownloads
1.Regulating Stablecoins: Comparing MiCAR and the GENIUS Act
Christopher K. Odinet and Andrea Tosato
Texas A&M University School of Law and Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law
2,148
2.The Ordinary Meaning Bot: Simulating Human Surveys with LLMs
Johannes Kruse
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
2,093
3.Before We Begin: Defining Contract
Robert Stevens
Oxford University Faculty of Law
1,064
4.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
200
5.Contract Law and the Common Good
Prince Saprai
University College London – Faculty of Laws
187
6.Swiss Cheese Contracts: The Costs of Creative Lawyering
Stephen J. ChoiMitu GulatiMatthew Jennejohn and Robert E. Scott
New York University School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark Law School and Columbia University – Law School
163
7.Property Without Law. Personalized Property Rights Through Smart Contracts on the BlockchainStefan BechtoldGiuseppe Dari‐MattiacciEdoardo D. Martino and Gideon ParchomovskyETH Zürich, University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam – University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Faculty of LawUniversity of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolDate Posted: 17 Sep 2025
Last Revised: 17 Sep 2025
152
8.Solving for Agreement
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law
129
9.Levers of Default: Can the President Unilaterally Alter the Terms of the National Debt?
Lev E. Breydo and Nathan B. Oman
William & Mary Law School and William & Mary Law School
117
10.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
111

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

As of: 03 Aug 2025 – 02 Oct 2025

RankPaperDownloads
1.Causation and Climate Change in Tort
Sandy Steel and Mark Geistfeld
University of Oxford and New York University School of Law
357
2.What the Realists Got Right
Paul B. Miller
Notre Dame Law School
203
3.Enabling Innovation and Protecting Consumers in the Agentic Economy: Why the Digital Fairness Act Should Regulate Agentic AI
Christoph Busch
University of Osnabrück – European Legal Studies Institute
175
4.Swiss Cheese Contracts: The Costs of Creative LawyeringStephen J. ChoiMitu GulatiMatthew Jennejohn and Robert E. ScottNew York University School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark Law School and Columbia University – Law SchoolDate Posted: 14 Aug 2025
Last Revised: 30 Sep 2025
163
5.Solving for Agreement
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law
129
6.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
111
7.Formalism For Realists: Legal Doctrine as A Public Norm in the Creation of Legal Artifacts
Thilo Kuntz
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
102
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
99
9.The Psychology of Serial Killers: What Drives Them?
Mounica Bai Rajput and Rajput Bhavana Bai
Independent and Independent
81
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