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Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for April 1, 2025

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Despite the calendar, no foolishness graces this week’s Top Ten list! We serve nothing here but the most genuinely hottest in recent scholarship, courtesy of our friends at SSRN. That said, let’s roll the tape and see what we’ve got on this fine first day of April 2025:

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 31 Jan 2025 – 01 Apr 2025

Rank Paper Downloads

1.

Crypto and the Property Question

Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law and Texas A&M University School of Law
4,007
2.

We Built Judge. AI. And You Should Buy It

Harvard University – Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Harvard Law School and Harvard University – Harvard Law School
909
3.

Disconsents

New York University School of LawNew York University School of Law and Columbia University – Law School
563
4.

Regulating Robo-advisors in an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

University of Minnesota Law School, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Michigan Law School
351
5.

The Obligations to Responsible Purchasing and Responsible Procurement Established by the CSDDD

Responsible Contracting Project (RCP) and Responsible Contracting Project (RCP)
320
6.

Fix the Price or Price the Fix? Resolving the Sequencing Puzzle in Corporate Contracting

University of Chicago – Department of Economics, Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark Law School and Columbia University – School of Law
272
7.

The Promise and Peril of Private Credit

University of California, Berkeley Law School
270
8.

Read But Not Understood? An Empirical Analysis Of Consumer Comprehension In Homeowners Insurance

University of Minnesota Law School, University of Georgia Department of Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics, University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan Law School
135
9.

Protecting Consumers in a Post-Consent World

Stanford Law School
127
10.

Propertising Contract: Two Kinds of Property and Two Kinds of Transfer

The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Law and Singapore Management University – Yong Pung How School of Law
126

 

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 31 Jan 2025 – 01 Apr 2025

Rank Paper Downloads
1.

Crypto and the Property Question

Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law and Texas A&M University School of Law
4,009
2.

We Built Judge. AI. And You Should Buy It

Harvard University – Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Harvard Law School and Harvard University – Harvard Law School
909
3.

The Tort of Irresponsible Contracting: Supply Chain Liability Explained Through Begum Maran

University of California, Berkeley – School of Law
367
4.

Havens for Corporate Lawbreaking

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
133
5.

AI in IA : To What Extent and Capacity Can Artificial Intelligence Assist in International Arbitration Procedures and Proceedings?

University of Cumbria
129
6.

Rights, Remedies, and Normative Uncertainty about Justice

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – School of Law
98
7.

An Autonomy Theory of Consumer Protection Law

The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Law
93
8.

The Law and Economics of Resilience

Fordham University School of Law and Yale Law School
80
9.

Can We Derive Property Rights from Bodily Rights?

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – Rutgers Law School
51
10.

Buying Insurance Online: Are European Consumers Protected or Vulnerable?

University of Trieste, University of Rijeka and Jagiellonian University in Krakow – Faculty of Law and Administration
48

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