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Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads for May 2, 2023

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Greetings, dear readers, and welcome back to our weekly peek at what’s burning up the download charts for our favorite topics on SSRN.

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 03 Mar 2023 – 02 May 2023

Rank Paper Downloads

1.

Algorithmic Black Swans

University of Toronto
1,191
2.

How ChatGPT and Generative AI Systems will Revolutionize Legal Services and the Legal Profession

St Cross College – University of Oxford
408
3.

Emerging Technology’s Unfamiliarity with Commercial Law

Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law
386
4.

The Scope of the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act: Thoughts on the Conflict of Laws

University of Augsburg
269
5.

Do Firms Value Court Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements? A Revealed Preference Approach

University of Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics and University of Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business
266
6.

Law and Courts in an Age of Debt

Harvard Law School and Duke University School of Law
251
7.

A Theory of the REIT

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – School of Law
197
8.

Privately Policing Dark Patterns

St. Thomas University – School of Law
156
9.

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Smart Contracts and Contracts: The Need for Legal and Technology Assurances

University of Malta and University of Malta, Centre for Distributed Ledger Technologies and Department of Media, Communications & Technology Law
134
10.

Artificial Intelligence and Contract Formation: Back to Contract as Bargain?

Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
133

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 03 Mar 2023 – 02 May 2023

Rank Paper Downloads
1.

Beyond Trade Secrecy: Confidentiality Agreements That Act Like Noncompetes

University of Akron School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
291
2.

Do Firms Value Court Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements? A Revealed Preference Approach

University of Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics and University of Maryland – Robert H. Smith School of Business
266
3.

Privately Policing Dark Patterns

St. Thomas University – School of Law
156
4.

Artificial Intelligence and Contract Formation: Back to Contract as Bargain?

Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
133
5.

Fractionalizing Investment Securities: Using FinTech to Expand Financial Inclusion

Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
112
6.

When Private Law Theory Is Close Enough

Brooklyn Law School
103
7.

Specific Performance

USC Gould School of Law
84
8.

Hidden Contracts

Victoria University of Wellington and College of Law and Business – Ramat Gan Law School
83
9.

A Genealogy of Private Law Epistemologies

Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
82
10.

Agreement

London School of Economics – Law Department
55

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