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Jeremy-Telman

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Official Blog of the AALS Section on Contracts

Tuesday Top Ten (Nine, Actually)– Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for January 6, 2026

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January 6, 2026

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 12 Oct 2025 – 11 Dec 2025

Rank	Paper	Downloads
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 CollegeIndependent – 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

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 12 Oct 2025 – 11 Dec 2025

Rank	Paper	Downloads
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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