Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads for July 26, 2022

July 26, 2022

Welcome to this week’s ContractsProf Blog Tuesday Top Ten! It’s time for our (mostly) weekly list of the hottest summer contract and commercial law downloads as of July 26, 2022, based on data from our friends at SSRN. Without further ado, let’s roll the tape:

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 27 May 2022 – 26 Jul 2022

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	COVID-19 and Business Income Insurance: The History of ‘Physical Loss’ and what Insurers Intended it to Mean Charles Murray Miller, Richard Lewis and Chris Kozak affiliation not provided to SSRN, Reed Smith LLP and Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP	197
2.	What Do Good Lawyers Know that the Rest of Us Don’t? Introducing First-Year Law Students to ‘Legal Realism’ Gregory S. Crespi Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law	161
3.	Transcending the Public Law-Private Law Divide Jason N. E. Varuhas University of Melbourne Law School	129
4.	Bridging the Liability Gaps: Why AI Challenges the Existing Rules on Liability and How to Design Human-empowering Solutions Silvia De Conca Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute	87
5.	Never Let Me Go: Private Law and the Conservative Impulse Prince Saprai University College London – Faculty of Laws	82
6.	Contracting for Debt: The Relationship Between Debt Capitalism, Higher Education, and the Black-white Wealth Gap Magali Duque University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School	81
7.	The Misrepresentation Act 1967: Its Historical Origins and Socio-Political Context Alan Brener University College London – Faculty of Laws	57
8.	Conflict, Consistency and the Role of Conventional Morality in Judicial Decision-Making Aditi Bagchi Fordham University School of Law	56
9.	Giants of Contract Law – Some Personal Reflections Andrew Phang Independent	45
10.	Humanizing Transactional Documents: Why and How Transactional Drafters Should Use Narrative Techniques Susan Chesler and Karen J. Sneddon Arizona State University (ASU) – Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and Mercer Law School	43

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 27 May 2022 – 26 Jul 2022

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	What Do Good Lawyers Know that the Rest of Us Don’t? Introducing First-Year Law Students to ‘Legal Realism’ Gregory S. Crespi Southern Methodist University – Dedman School of Law	161
2.	The Misrepresentation Act 1967: Its Historical Origins and Socio-Political Context Alan Brener University College London – Faculty of Laws	57
3.	Conflict, Consistency and the Role of Conventional Morality in Judicial Decision-Making Aditi Bagchi Fordham University School of Law	56
4.	The Role of Democracy in Private Law Arie Rosen University of Auckland Faculty of Law	52
5.	Giants of Contract Law – Some Personal Reflections Andrew Phang Independent	45
6.	Humanizing Transactional Documents: Why and How Transactional Drafters Should Use Narrative Techniques Susan Chesler and Karen J. Sneddon Arizona State University (ASU) – Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and Mercer Law School	43
7.	Nominal Damages as Vindication Sadie Blanchard Notre Dame Law School	43
8.	Post Section 90: Promissory Estoppel in the Courts that Use It Most Val Ricks South Texas College of Law Houston	33
9.	Using Private Law as a Vehicle for Social Change: A Feminist Approach Susan Chesler Arizona State University (ASU) – Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law	30
10.	Lowering the Stakes of the Employment Contract Aditi Bagchi Fordham University School of Law	25

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