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Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for November 11, 2025

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Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

As of: 07 Sep 2025 – 06 Nov 2025

RankPaperDownloads
1.Should Crypto Be Property?
Robert Stevens
Oxford University Faculty of Law
722
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
280
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
228
4.Contract Law and the Common Good
Prince Saprai
University College London – Faculty of Laws
206
5.Legal Aspects of the Entertainment Industry
Lawrence J. TrautmanWade ChumneyAdam EpsteinValerie FluggeLarry D. Foster IILeslie GarbarinoLeslie 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 Collegeaffiliation not provided to SSRN and California State University, Northridge
178
6.Liability Management Exercises: A Viable Restructuring Tool for Financially Distressed Companies in Nigeria? 
Abasi-Akara Edet
Independent
139
7.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
136
8.Managing Legal Concepts: Maintenance, Modulation, Modification
Andrew S. Gold and Henry E. Smith
University of California, Irvine School of Law and Harvard 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
125
10.How Legalese Jeopardizes Enforceability
Mark Cooney
Cooley Law School
115

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

As of: 07 Sep 2025 – 06 Nov 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
355
2.What the Realists Got Right
Paul B. Miller
Notre Dame Law School
227
3.“Self-Driving” Means Self-Driving
Bryant Walker Smith
University of South Carolina – Joseph F. Rice School of Law
224
4.Scrappy or Strategic? Law Firm Decision-Making in Light of Executive Orders
Nancy B. Rapoport
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
154
5.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
139
6.Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing
Timothy Liau
London School of Economics – Law School
136
7.Formalism For Realists: Legal Doctrine as A Public Norm in the Creation of Legal Artifacts
Thilo Kuntz
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
133
8.How Legalese Jeopardizes Enforceability
Mark Cooney
Cooley Law School
115
9.Coercive Settlements
Gilat Juli Bachar
Temple University – James E. Beasley School of Law
101
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