Weekly Top Ten Countdown

There’s a major shake-up in the rankings this week as the Top Ten has a new Number One and no less than seven new papers have crashed the scene.  Following are the Top 10 Downloads from the SSRN Journal of Contracts and Commercial Law, for the 60 days ending April 17.

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

2 (–) There Are No Penalty Default Rules in Contract Law, Eric A. Posner

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

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

• 5 (–) The Missing Preferred Return, Victor Fleischer

• 6 (–) Institutions, Incentives, and Consumer Bankruptcy Reform, Todd J. Zywicki

• 7 (–) Tracing, Peter B. Oh

8 (–) Bank Loan Contract Design through Learning and Renegotiating, Ronald Mahieu & Arjen Mulder

9 (–) On-line Consumer Standard-Form Contracting Practices: A Survey and Discussion of Legal Implications, Robert A. Hillman

10 (–) Code, Hybrid Models of Consent and the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002, Joseph Savirimuthu

Last week’s ranking in parentheses.  • Indicates fast-rising article.