Tuesday Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Top SSRN Downloads for November 4, 2025

By Mark Burge on November 4, 2025

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Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal

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As of: 31 Aug 2025 – 30 Oct 2025

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Should Crypto Be Property? Robert Stevens Oxford University Faculty of Law	694
2.	The Limits of Regulating AI Safety Through Liability and Insurance: Lessons From Cybersecurity Daniel Schwarcz and Josephine Wolff University of Minnesota Law School and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University	247
3.	Property Without Law. Personalized Property Rights Through Smart Contracts on the Blockchain Stefan Bechtold, Giuseppe Dari‐Mattiacci, Edoardo D. Martino and Gideon Parchomovsky ETH Zürich, University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam – University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Faculty of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School	207
4.	Contract Law and the Common Good Prince Saprai University College London – Faculty of Laws	203
5.	Product Liability Law in the Age of AI Mark Geistfeld New York University School of Law	152
6.	Solving for Agreement Jorge L. Contreras University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law	145
7.	Liability Management Exercises: A Viable Restructuring Tool for Financially Distressed Companies in Nigeria? Abasi-Akara Edet Independent	133
8.	Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing Timothy Liau London School of Economics – Law School	132
9.	GRAPH-GRPO-LEX: Contract Graph Modeling and Reinforcement Learning with Group Relative Policy Optimization Moriya Dechtiar, Daniel Martin Katz, Mari Sundaresan, Sylvain Jaume and Hongming Wang Harvard University, Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent College of Law, Georgetown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University	120
10.	Managing Legal Concepts: Maintenance, Modulation, Modification Andrew S. Gold and Henry E. Smith University of California, Irvine School of Law and Harvard Law School	118

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Law & Society: Private Law – Contracts eJournal

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As of: 31 Aug 2025 – 30 Oct 2025

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	AI and Investment Services in EU Law: The Case for MiFID III Riccardo Ghetti, Claudio Novelli, Philipp Hacker and Luciano Floridi University of Bologna – Faculty of Law, Yale University – Digital Ethics Center, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) – European New School of Digital Studies and Yale University – Digital Ethics Center	353
2.	What the Realists Got Right Paul B. Miller Notre Dame Law School	225
3.	“Self-Driving” Means Self-Driving Bryant Walker Smith University of South Carolina – Joseph F. Rice School of Law	212
4.	The Psychology of Serial Killers: What Drives Them? Mounica Bai Rajput and Rajput Bhavana Bai Independent and Independent	165
5.	Solving for Agreement Jorge L. Contreras University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law	145
6.	Remuneration of Music Creators in the Streaming Economy: Findings from Germany Jana Costas, Jana Costas, Patrick Vonderau and Philipp Hacker affiliation not provided to SSRN, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) – European New School of Digital Studies	133
7.	Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing Timothy Liau London School of Economics – Law School	131
8.	Compatibility of subscription-based models with Article 5 (2) of the DMA Case Study: Commission v Meta Platforms Inc Thomas Hoeren and Nora-Marie Fuchs ITM Münster (FRG) and University of Münster	129
9.	Formalism For Realists: Legal Doctrine as A Public Norm in the Creation of Legal Artifacts Thilo Kuntz Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf	124
10.	How Legalese Jeopardizes Enforceability Mark Cooney Cooley Law School	110