Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads for August 25, 2020

August 25, 2020

Sure the fall semester is underway and you may be juggling new tricks in teaching online, hybrid, and live (but distanced!) courses. We think there is no better way to get away from it all than to peruse the latest scholarship on our favorite topic. Right? Right! So let’s get to it:

Top Downloads For:

Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 26 Jun 2020 – 25 Aug 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	690
2.	The Social Cost of Contract David A. Hoffman and Cathy Hwang University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Virginia School of Law	424
3.	COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Losses: The Cases For and Against Coverage Christopher C. French The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law	228
4.	Pervasive Infancy: Reassessing the Contract Capacity of Adults in Modern America Michael Lewis Rath, Young and Pignatelli	199
5.	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	162
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	160
7.	New Light on Twyne’s Case Emily Kadens Northwestern University School of Law	152
8.	Contracts and COVID-19 Andrew A. Schwartz University of Colorado Law School	147
9.	Smart Contracts and Automation of Private Relationships Pietro Sirena and Francesco Paolo Patti Bocconi University – Bocconi Law Department and Bocconi University – Department of Law	114
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	109

Top Downloads For:

Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 26 Jun 2020 – 25 Aug 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	690
2.	The Social Cost of Contract David A. Hoffman and Cathy Hwang University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Virginia School of Law	424
3.	Pervasive Infancy: Reassessing the Contract Capacity of Adults in Modern America Michael Lewis Rath, Young and Pignatelli	199
4.	Unlawfully-Issued Sovereign Debt Mark C. Weidemaier and G. Mitu Gulati University of North Carolina School of Law and Duke University School of Law	160
5.	Contracts and COVID-19 Andrew A. Schwartz University of Colorado Law School	147
6.	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	88
7.	From Automation to Autonomy: Some Non-existent Problems in Contract Law Dr Eliza Mik Melbourne Law School	79
8.	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
9.	Contracts, Markets, and Justice: On Peter Benson’s ‘Justice in Transactions’ Felipe Jiménez USC Gould School of Law	64
10.	Silence for Sale Jeff Gordon Sydney Law School	60

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