Weekly Top Ten

A new paper by MIT economist Birger Wernerfelt has rocketed to number 2 on this week’s Top Ten Countdown, while two news papers also crack the chart and the latest from Emily Houh hits its highest position to date.  Following are the top ten contracts-related downloads from the Social Science Research Network for the 60 days ending April 10.  (Previous week in parentheses.)

1  (1) Emerging Policy and Practice Issues, Steven L. Schooner & Christopher R. Yukins

• 2 (-) Incomplete Contracts and Renegotiation, Birger Wernerfelt

3  (4) The Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, Emily Houh

4 (5) Allegheny College Revisited: Cardozo, Consideration, and Formalism in Context, Curtis Bridgeman

5  (7) On the Efficiency of Standard Form Contracts: The Case of Construction, Surajeet Chakravarty & W. Bentley MacLeod

6  (8) The Limits of Lawyering: Legal Opinions in Structured Finance, Steven L. Schwarcz

7 (9) Strict Liability and the Fault Standard in Corrective Justice Accounts of Contract, Curtis Bridgeman

8  (10) Duty and Consequence: A Non-Conflating Theory of Promise and Contract, Jeffrey M. Lipshaw

9  (-) Fairness and the Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights, Ernst Fehr, Susanne Kremhelmer & Klaus M. Schmidt

10 (-) Civil Contract Law and Economic Reasoning: An Unlikely Pair?, Aristides N. Hatzis