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Weekly Top Ten SSRN Contracts Downloads (December 29, 2016)

For your reading pleasure, ContractsProf Blog presents the final Top Ten Downloads list of 2016. We also hope our readers will resolve (notwithstanding Calvin, below) to have a happy and productive 2017!

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Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

Rank Downloads Paper Title

1

306 Why Have M&A Contracts Grown? Evidence from Twenty Years of Deals
John C. Coates, IV
Harvard Law School
2 183 The Promise and Problems of Universal, General Theories of Contract Law
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
3 113 The Commercial Law of Bitcoin and Blocktrain Transactions
Stephen M. McJohn and Ian McJohn
Suffolk University Law School and Independent
4 109 Contractual Estoppel and the Misrepresentation Act 1967
Richard Hooley
University of Cambridge – Faculty of Law
5 108 Long-Term Business Relationships and Implicit Contracts in European Private Law
Ugljesa Grusic
Faculty of Laws, University College London
6 92 Local Governments and Risky Home Loans
Kathleen C. Engel
Suffolk University Law School
7 92 The New Lex Mercatoria: An Emerging Challenge to Legal Systems in Cross-Border Transactions
Jan H. Hendrik Dalhuisen
King’s College London
8 91 Excessive Contractual Penalties in Football
Despina Mavromati
Court of Arbitration for Sport
9 86 ‘And So the Legal World Goes Round’: The Search for a Meaningful Law of Restitution (in Response to Virgo, ‘All the World’s a Stage’)
Steve Hedley
University College Cork
10 83 The Corporation as Courthouse
Rory Van Loo
Boston University School of Law

SSRN Top Downloads For SSRN Logo2
Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 306 Why Have M&A Contracts Grown? Evidence from Twenty Years of Deals
John C. Coates, IV
Harvard Law School
2 183 The Promise and Problems of Universal, General Theories of Contract Law
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
3 109 Contractual Estoppel and the Misrepresentation Act 1967
Richard Hooley
University of Cambridge – Faculty of Law
4 108 Long-Term Business Relationships and Implicit Contracts in European Private Law
Ugljesa Grusic
Faculty of Laws, University College London
5 92 The New Lex Mercatoria: An Emerging Challenge to Legal Systems in Cross-Border Transactions
Jan H. Hendrik Dalhuisen
King’s College London
6 91 Excessive Contractual Penalties in Football
Despina Mavromati
Court of Arbitration for Sport
7 86 ‘And So the Legal World Goes Round’: The Search for a Meaningful Law of Restitution (in Response to Virgo, ‘All the World’s a Stage’)
Steve Hedley
University College Cork
8 83 The Corporation as Courthouse
Rory Van Loo
Boston University School of Law
9 82 Remedies
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
10 72 Drafting for Dispute Resolution
John M. Newman
University of Memphis – Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law

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