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TOP 10 Papers for Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies

January 2, 1997 to May 22, 2013



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 18351 Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis
Brent T. White,
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law,
Date posted to database: October 27, 2009
Last Revised: October 29, 2010
2 16261 How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students
Orin S. Kerr,
George Washington University - Law School,
Date posted to database: July 16, 2008
Last Revised: August 13, 2008
3 15879 Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime
Glenn Harlan Reynolds,
University of Tennessee College of Law,
Date posted to database: January 20, 2013
Last Revised: April 11, 2013
4 11194 Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
Paul Ohm,
University of Colorado Law School,
Date posted to database: July 13, 2012
Last Revised: July 13, 2012
5 8898 The Perfect Crime
Brian C. Kalt,
Michigan State University College of Law,
Date posted to database: March 25, 2005
Last Revised: December 26, 2007
6 8515 Cybercrime's Scope: Interpreting 'Access' and 'Authorization' in Computer Misuse Statutes
Orin S. Kerr,
George Washington University - Law School,
Date posted to database: February 18, 2004
Last Revised: February 10, 2005
7 8394 The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives
David A. Skeel, Frank Partnoy,
University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of San Diego - School of Law,
Date posted to database: September 13, 2006
Last Revised: March 20, 2010
8 7702 Internet Surveillance Law After the USA Patriot Act: The Big Brother That Isn't
Orin S. Kerr,
George Washington University - Law School,
Date posted to database: July 19, 2002
Last Revised: February 19, 2005
9 7694 The "Hart-Dworkin" Debate: A Short Guide for the Perplexed
Scott J. Shapiro,
Yale University - Law School,
Date posted to database: March 7, 2007
Last Revised: July 2, 2007
10 7370 Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System's Land Title Theory
Christopher Lewis Peterson,
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law,
Date posted to database: October 1, 2010
Last Revised: February 5, 2013

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)
TOP 10 Papers for Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies

March 23, 2013 to May 22, 2013



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 1294 The Failure of Crits and Leftist Law Professors to Defend Progressive Causes
Brian Z. Tamanaha,
Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law,
Date posted to database: May 1, 2013
Last Revised: May 15, 2013
2 729 Foreword: Accounting for Technological Change
Orin S. Kerr,
George Washington University - Law School,
Date posted to database: March 17, 2013
Last Revised: April 8, 2013
3 717 The AIA 500 Expanded: Effects of Patent Monetization Entities
Robin Feldman, Thomas Ewing, Sara Jeruss,
University of California Hastings College of the Law, Avancept LLC, Lex Machina Inc.,
Date posted to database: April 9, 2013
Last Revised: May 21, 2013
4 502 'The Divine Institution of Marriage': An Overview of LDS Involvement in the Proposition 8 Campaign
Kaimipono David Wenger,
Thomas Jefferson School of Law,
Date posted to database: April 22, 2013
Last Revised: April 22, 2013
5 460 Political Dysfunction and Constitutional Change
Richard L. Hasen,
University of California, Irvine - School of Law,
Date posted to database: April 3, 2013
Last Revised: April 18, 2013
6 415 The Sustainable Relationship: What the United States and the United Kingdom Can Teach Each Other About Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the National Level
John C. Dernbach, Andrea Ross,
Widener University - School of Law, Dundee Law School,
Date posted to database: April 27, 2013
Last Revised: April 27, 2013
7 336 A Case for Grade Inflation in Legal Education
Joshua M. Silverstein,
University of Arkansas at Little Rock - William H. Bowen School of Law,
Date posted to database: May 7, 2013
Last Revised: May 7, 2013
8 312 The Supercharged IPO
Victor Fleischer, Nancy C. Staudt,
University of Colorado at Boulder - School of Law, University of Southern California - Law School,
Date posted to database: March 21, 2013
Last Revised: April 4, 2013
9 306 The Third Pillar of Jurisprudence: Social Legal Theory
Brian Z. Tamanaha,
Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law,
Date posted to database: April 27, 2013
Last Revised: May 10, 2013
10 291 Teaching the Smartphone Generation: How Cognitive Science Can Improve Learning in Law School
Shailini George,
Suffolk University - Law School,
Date posted to database: April 14, 2013
Last Revised: April 14, 2013



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