Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads for September 1, 2020

September 1, 2020

September is upon us, and having two-thirds of the year complete is no small accomplishment in a year like 2020. Remember that you still have four full months to dig into some hot contracts and commercial law scholarship! Consider some of the items on this week’s Top Ten list, courtesy of our friends at SSRN.

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Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 03 Jul 2020 – 01 Sep 2020

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Force Majeure, Frustration and Impossibility: A Qualitative Empirical Analysis Smaran Shetty and Pranav Budihal Columbia Law School and National University of Singapore	718
2.	The Social Cost of Contract David A. Hoffman and Cathy Hwang University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Virginia School of Law	432
3.	Innovation Versus Encrustation: Agency Costs in Contract Reproduction Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati and Robert E. Scott New York University School of Law, Duke University School of Law and Columbia University – Law School	303
4.	COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Losses: The Cases For and Against Coverage Christopher C. French The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law	256
5.	Pervasive Infancy: Reassessing the Contract Capacity of Adults in Modern America Michael Lewis Rath, Young and Pignatelli	200
6.	Unlawfully-Issued Sovereign Debt Mark C. Weidemaier and G. Mitu Gulati University of North Carolina School of Law and Duke University School of Law	176
7.	License to All or Access to All? A Law and Economics Assessment of Standard Development Organizations’ Licensing Rules Anne Layne-Farrar and Richard Stark Charles River Associates and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP	164
8.	New Light on Twyne’s Case Emily Kadens Northwestern University School of Law	159
9.	Contracts and COVID-19 Andrew A. Schwartz University of Colorado Law School	155
10.	The Distinction Between Private Law and Public Law Hanoch Dagan and Benjamin C. Zipursky Tel Aviv University – Buchmann Faculty of Law and Fordham University School of Law	126

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 03 Jul 2020 – 01 Sep 2020

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Force Majeure, Frustration and Impossibility: A Qualitative Empirical Analysis Smaran Shetty and Pranav Budihal Columbia Law School and National University of Singapore	718
2.	The Social Cost of Contract David A. Hoffman and Cathy Hwang University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Virginia School of Law	432
3.	Innovation Versus Encrustation: Agency Costs in Contract Reproduction Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati and Robert E. Scott New York University School of Law, Duke University School of Law and Columbia University – Law School	303
4.	Pervasive Infancy: Reassessing the Contract Capacity of Adults in Modern America Michael Lewis Rath, Young and Pignatelli	200
5.	Unlawfully-Issued Sovereign Debt Mark C. Weidemaier and G. Mitu Gulati University of North Carolina School of Law and Duke University School of Law	176
6.	Contracts and COVID-19 Andrew A. Schwartz University of Colorado Law School	155
7.	Relationship as Product: Transacting in the Age of Loneliness Shmuel I. Becher and Sarah Dadush Victoria University of Wellington and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – Rutgers Law School	95
8.	From Automation to Autonomy: Some Non-existent Problems in Contract Law Dr Eliza Mik Melbourne Law School	80
9.	Hashing Out Agreements: An Overview of ‘Smart’ Contracts under Canadian Law Florian Martin-Bariteau and Marco Pontello University of Ottawa – Common Law Section and University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, Students	65
10.	Contracts, Markets, and Justice: On Peter Benson’s ‘Justice in Transactions’ Felipe Jiménez USC Gould School of Law	64

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