The (Belated) Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads for August 2, 2023

August 2, 2023

Filed this week under B for “better late than never,” we turn our attention to the SSRN download charts in our favorite scholarly areas.

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 03 Jun 2023 – 02 Aug 2023

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Big Data on Contract Interpretation Farshad Ghodoosi and Tal Kastner California State University, Northridge, Nazarian School of Business & Economics, and Touro University, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center	281
2.	Why Study Law? Lawrence J. Trautman, Rachel Chambers, Michael Conklin, Brian Elzweig, Larry D. Foster II, Angelica Guevara, Christopher P. Guzelian, Ella McCown Jones, Lora Koretz, Rebecca Nieman, more… Prairie View A&M University – College of Business, University of Connecticut – School of Business, Angelo State University – Business Law, University of West Florida, Prairie View A&M University – College of Business, Business Law and Ethics, Texas State University School of Business, Ohio University, W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State, University of San Diego, Knauss School of Business	177
3.	The Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 and the 2003 Amendments to Article 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code: Do They Do the Same Thing? Miriam A. Goldby Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London	160
4.	Leveraged Finance Greg Nini and David C. Smith Drexel University – Department of Finance and University of Virginia – McIntire School of Commerce	127
5.	A Law Professor’s Love-Hate Relationship with the Restatement (Second) of Contracts Jeffrey M. Lipshaw Suffolk University Law School	127
6.	Much Ado about Artificial Intelligence or: the Automation of Contract Formation Eliza Mik The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) – Faculty of Law	119
7.	The Bitter Ironies of Williams V. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. In the First Year Law School Curriculum Duncan Kennedy Harvard Law School	117
8.	Under my Umbrella: Seeking Shelter Under an ESG Clause Emily Hay Hanotiau & Van den Berg (HVDB)	98
9.	Pluralism Aditi Bagchi Fordham University School of Law	89
10.	Class Action Settlements as Contracts? Howard M. Erichson, Ethan J. Leib and Fordham Law RPS Submitter Fordham University School of Law, Fordham University School of Law and Fordham University School of Law	88

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 03 Jun 2023 – 02 Aug 2023

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Big Data on Contract Interpretation Farshad Ghodoosi and Tal Kastner California State University, Northridge, Nazarian School of Business & Economics, and Touro University, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center	281
2.	Laws Applicable to International Smart Contracts and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOS) Luís de Lima Pinheiro University of Lisbon – Faculdade de Direito	235
3.	Even Lawyers Don’t Like Legalese Eric Martínez, Frank Mollica and Edward Gibson Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Edinburgh and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	131
4.	A Law Professor’s Love-Hate Relationship with the Restatement (Second) of Contracts Jeffrey M. Lipshaw Suffolk University Law School	127
5.	The Bitter Ironies of Williams V. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. In the First Year Law School Curriculum Duncan Kennedy Harvard Law School	117
6.	Video Game Law Mark A. Lemley and Sonali Maitra Stanford Law School and Independent	111
7.	Pluralism Aditi Bagchi Fordham University School of Law	89
8.	Class Action Settlements as Contracts? Howard M. Erichson, Ethan J. Leib and Fordham Law RPS Submitter Fordham University School of Law, Fordham University School of Law and Fordham University School of Law	88
9.	Third Parties Nicolas Cornell University of Michigan Law School	77
10.	Contracting as a Class Caleb N. Griffin University of Arkansas – School of Law	75

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