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ALL TIME HITS (for all papers in SSRN eLibrary)
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Legal History
January 2, 1997 to November 24, 2009
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Downloads
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Paper Title
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1
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3447
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The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East
Timur Kuran,
Duke University - Department of Economics,
Date posted to database: July 25, 2001
Last Revised: December 4, 2003
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2
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3092
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Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song
Robert Brauneis,
George Washington University - Law School,
Date posted to database: March 21, 2008
Last Revised: May 6, 2008
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3
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2748
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Was the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Conditioned on Service in an Organized Militia?
Randy E. Barnett,
Georgetown University Law Center,
Date posted to database: July 23, 2003
Last Revised: December 28, 2007
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4
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2733
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Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire
Richard A. Posner,
University of Chicago Law School,
Date posted to database: November 19, 1999
Last Revised: January 12, 2000
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5
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2577
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The Ninth Amendment: It Means What It Says
Randy E. Barnett,
Georgetown University Law Center,
Date posted to database: August 25, 2005
Last Revised: December 18, 2006
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6
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1994
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Indefinitely Renewable Copyright
William M. Landes,
Richard A. Posner,
University of Chicago Law School,
University of Chicago Law School,
Date posted to database: July 18, 2002
Last Revised: August 19, 2002
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7
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1927
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A Brief History of Information Privacy Law
Daniel J. Solove,
George Washington University Law School,
Date posted to database: July 10, 2006
Last Revised: May 5, 2008
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8
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1845
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Who Writes the Rules for Hostile Takeovers, and Why? The Peculiar Divergence of Us and UK Takeover Regulation
John Armour,
David A. Skeel,
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law,
University of Pennsylvania Law School,
Date posted to database: September 8, 2006
Last Revised: February 3, 2009
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9
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1843
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Comparative Company Law
Klaus J. Hopt,
Max Planck Institute of Foreign Private and Private International Law,
Date posted to database: April 17, 2007
Last Revised: April 18, 2007
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10
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1749
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A Law of Rules: A Critique and Reconstruction of Justice Scalia's View of the Rule of Law
Lawrence B. Solum,
University of Illinois College of Law,
Date posted to database: March 15, 2002
Last Revised: April 5, 2002
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RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Legal History
September 25, 2009 to November 24, 2009
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Downloads
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Paper Title
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1
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540
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'This Right is Not Allowed by Governments that are Afraid of the People': The Public Meaning of the Second Amendment When the Fourteenth Amendment was Ratified
Clayton E. Cramer,
Nicholas James Johnson,
George A. Mocsary,
Sonoma State University,
Fordham University - School of Law,
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit,
Date posted to database: October 21, 2009
Last Revised: November 20, 2009
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2
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289
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The Emerging Criminal War on Sex Offenders
Corey Rayburn Yung,
The John Marshall Law School,
Date posted to database: August 18, 2009
Last Revised: November 2, 2009
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3
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270
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The Empty Idea of Authority
Laurence Claus,
University of San Diego School of Law,
Date posted to database: October 8, 2009
Last Revised: October 8, 2009
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4
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170
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A World Without Law Professors
Mathias M. Siems,
University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich Law School,
Date posted to database: October 3, 2009
Last Revised: November 3, 2009
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5
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163
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The Accidental Deduction: A History and Critique of the Tax Subsidy for Mortgage Interest
Dennis J. Ventry,
University of California, Davis - School of Law,
Date posted to database: November 3, 2009
Last Revised: November 3, 2009
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6
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121
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Legal Fictions and Juristic Truth
Nancy J. Knauer,
Temple University - Beasley School of Law,
Date posted to database: October 19, 2009
Last Revised: November 11, 2009
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7
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119
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Law in American History: The Colonial Years
G. Edward White,
University of Virginia School of Law,
Date posted to database: September 20, 2009
Last Revised: October 6, 2009
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8
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118
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Bankruptcy and Capital Punishment in the 18th and 19th Centuries
John Paul Tribe,
Kingston Law School,
Date posted to database: January 22, 2009
Last Revised: January 26, 2009
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9
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114
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The Crime of Conviction of John Choon Yoo: The Actual Criminality in the OLC During the Bush Administration
Joseph Lavitt,
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law,
Date posted to database: September 23, 2009
Last Revised: November 1, 2009
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10
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108
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The Most Esteemed Act of My Life: Family, Property, Will, and Trust in the Antebellum South
Stephen Duane Davis II,
Alfred L. Brophy,
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - School of Law,
Date posted to database: July 18, 2009
Last Revised: July 18, 2009
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