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Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads for August 9, 2022

After a last-minute August frolic and detour, the Tuesday Top Ten is back to ring in the new fall semester. The new 1Ls have no idea that the greatest course of all time lies ahead for them, but Contracts profs everywhere are preparing for the journey. Meanwhile, let’s check the scholarship stats from our friends at SSRN.

Top-10 Cube Letters

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 09 Jun 2022 – 08 Aug 2022

Rank Paper Downloads

1.

How Privilege Undermines Cybersecurity

University of Minnesota Law School, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and University of Edinburgh
334
2.

COVID-19 and Business Income Insurance: The History of ‘Physical Loss’ and what Insurers Intended it to Mean

affiliation not provided to SSRN, Reed Smith LLP and Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP
208
3.

Transcending the Public Law-Private Law Divide

University of Melbourne Law School
135
4.

Private Law Legalism

USC Gould School of Law
123
5.

Bridging the Liability Gaps: Why AI Challenges the Existing Rules on Liability and How to Design Human-empowering Solutions

Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute
98
6.

Never Let Me Go: Private Law and the Conservative Impulse

University College London – Faculty of Laws
92
7.

Based On a True Story: Life Story Rights, Modularity and Ownership of the Self

University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law and University of Houston Law Center
75
8.

The Misrepresentation Act 1967: Its Historical Origins and Socio-Political Context

University College London – Faculty of Laws
60
9.

Giants of Contract Law – Some Personal Reflections

Independent
57
10.

Nominal Damages as Vindication

Notre Dame Law School
52

 

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 09 Jun 2022 – 08 Aug 2022

Rank Paper Downloads
1.

Based On a True Story: Life Story Rights, Modularity and Ownership of the Self

University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law and University of Houston Law Center
75
2.

The Misrepresentation Act 1967: Its Historical Origins and Socio-Political Context

University College London – Faculty of Laws
60
3.

Giants of Contract Law – Some Personal Reflections

Independent
57
4.

Sexual Agreements

University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and Washington University in St. Louis – School of Law
52
5.

The Role of Democracy in Private Law

University of Auckland Faculty of Law
52
6.

Nominal Damages as Vindication

Notre Dame Law School
52
7.

Unjust Enrichment in Australia 2020-2021

University of Queensland – TC Beirne School of Law, TC Beirne School of Law and The University of Queensland – T.C. Beirne School of Law
31
8.

In Defense of Separability: Prima Paint, Buckeye, & Rent-A-Center

Western Carolina University
27
9.

Public Policy Norms and Choice-of-Law Methodology Adjustments in International Arbitration

Western Carolina University
23
10.

The Two Faces of Severability: A Study in International Contract

HEC Paris and affiliation not provided to SSRN
20

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