Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads for January 4, 2022

January 4, 2022

Happy 2022! And, of course, welcome to another year of the latest and greatest in contracts and commercial law scholarship. While the greatest of 2021, as ably documented by BlogLord Jeremy Telman, will be hard to top, don’t think that we aren’t up to the challenge. Meanwhile, what’s been happening on SSRN in our favorite fields coming off the holiday? So glad you asked.

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 05 Nov 2021 – 04 Jan 2022

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	The Internal Point of View in Private Law Jeffrey A. Pojanowski and Paul B. Miller Notre Dame Law School and Notre Dame Law School	160
2.	Philosophy of Contract Law Daniel Markovits and Emad H. Atiq Yale Law School and Cornell University – Law School	160
3.	The Mystery of the Missing Choice-of-Law Clause John F. Coyle University of North Carolina School of Law	144
4.	Autonomy and Contracts Hanoch Dagan Tel Aviv University – Buchmann Faculty of Law	101
5.	Unjust Enrichment: Principle or Cause of Action? Lionel Smith and Samuel Beswick McGill University, Faculty of Law, Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law and Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia	101
6.	Strict Products Liability 2.0: The Triumph of Judicial Reasoning over Mainstream Tort Theory Mark Geistfeld New York University School of Law	93
7.	Why Corporate Law Is Private Law Asaf Raz University of Pennsylvania Law School	79
8.	The Law of Haunted Houses: A Comment on Stigmatized Properties following Wang v Shao Reagan Seidler Law Society of Upper Canada – Smart & Biggar	78
9.	The Next Best Thing To a Promise Dori Kimel University of Oxford – Faculty of Law	69
10.	The Present and Near Future of Self-Driving Contracts Anthony J. Casey and Anthony Niblett University of Chicago Law School and University of Toronto – Faculty of Law	65

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 05 Nov 2021 – 04 Jan 2022

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Autonomy and Contracts Hanoch Dagan Tel Aviv University – Buchmann Faculty of Law	101
2.	Unjust Enrichment: Principle or Cause of Action? Lionel Smith and Samuel Beswick McGill University, Faculty of Law, Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law and Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia	101
3.	Why Corporate Law Is Private Law Asaf Raz University of Pennsylvania Law School	79
4.	The Law of Haunted Houses: A Comment on Stigmatized Properties following Wang v Shao Reagan Seidler Law Society of Upper Canada – Smart & Biggar	78
5.	The Next Best Thing To a Promise Dori Kimel University of Oxford – Faculty of Law	69
6.	The Present and Near Future of Self-Driving Contracts Anthony J. Casey and Anthony Niblett University of Chicago Law School and University of Toronto – Faculty of Law	65
7.	‘New Private Law Theory’ as a Mosaic: What Can Hold (Most of) It Together? Hanoch Dagan Tel Aviv University – Buchmann Faculty of Law	45
8.	Is Insisting on Specific Performance under Smart Contracts Desirable? Inflexibilities of Smart Contracts and Potential Solutions Eyup Kun KU Leuven – Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP)	43
9.	Unpacking Content Moderation: The Rise of Social Media Platforms as Online Civil Courts Catalina Goanta and Pietro Ortolani Maastricht European Private Law Institute and Radboud University	41
10.	Between Chaos and Cosmos: Tony Weir in the Cambridge Law Journal Nicholas McBride University of Cambridge – Faculty of Law	32

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