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TOP 10 Papers for Litigation, Procedure & Dispute Resolution Journals

January 2, 1997 to November 22, 2009



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 5057 High-Water Marks and Hedge Fund Management Contracts
William N. Goetzmann, Jonathan E. Ingersoll Jr., Stephen A. Ross,
Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management,
Date posted to database: February 8, 1998
Last Revised: August 30, 2001
2 3278 Patent Case Management Judicial Guide
Peter S. Menell, Lynn Pasahow, James H. A. Pooley, Matthew D. Powers,
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Author - affiliation not provided to SSRN, Author - affiliation not provided to SSRN, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP,
Date posted to database: January 16, 2009
Last Revised: June 5, 2009
3 2495 Outside Director Liability Across Countries
Brian R. Cheffins, Bernard S. Black,
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law,
Date posted to database: January 20, 2005
Last Revised: June 5, 2006
4 2426 An Economic Approach to the Law of Evidence
Richard A. Posner,
University of Chicago Law School,
Date posted to database: May 19, 1999
Last Revised: November 22, 2004
5 2266 The Law of Group Polarization
Cass R. Sunstein,
Harvard University - Harvard Law School,
Date posted to database: December 13, 1999
Last Revised: November 15, 2000
6 2126 How Are Patent Cases Resolved? An Empirical Examination of the Adjudication and Settlement of Patent Disputes
Jay P. Kesan, Gwendolyn G. Ball,
University of Illinois - College of Law , Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois,
Date posted to database: September 30, 2005
Last Revised: January 30, 2007
7 2066 The Pros and Cons of Getting to Yes - Shortcomings and Limitations of Principled Bargaining in Negotiation and Mediation
Katja Funken,
University of Munich School of Law,
Date posted to database: December 18, 2001
Last Revised: January 25, 2002
8 2024 Procedural Justice
Lawrence B. Solum,
University of Illinois College of Law,
Date posted to database: February 26, 2004
Last Revised: December 16, 2004
9 2013 Event Studies and the Law - Part I: Technique and Corporate Litigation
Sanjai Bhagat, Roberta Romano,
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance, Yale Law School,
Date posted to database: May 1, 2001
Last Revised: January 16, 2002
10 1912 Be Careful What You Ask For: Reconciling a Global Internet and Local Law
Jonathan Zittrain,
Harvard Law School,
Date posted to database: April 16, 2003
Last Revised: April 18, 2003

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)
TOP 10 Papers for Litigation, Procedure & Dispute Resolution Journals

September 23, 2009 to November 22, 2009



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 343 Judging Women
Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati, Mirya R. Holman, Eric A. Posner,
New York University - School of Law, Duke University - School of Law, Duke University School of Law, University of Chicago - Law School,
Date posted to database: September 28, 2009
Last Revised: October 2, 2009
2 322 The New Summary Judgment Motion: The Motion to Dismiss Under Iqbal and Twombly
Suja A. Thomas,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Law,
Date posted to database: October 27, 2009
Last Revised: October 27, 2009
3 249 Plausibility Pleading Revisited and Revised: A Comment on Ashcroft v. Iqbal
Robert G. Bone,
Boston University School of Law,
Date posted to database: September 22, 2009
Last Revised: September 22, 2009
4 221 The Increased Level of EU Antitrust Fines, Judicial Review, and the European Convention on Human Rights
Wouter P. J. Wils,
European Commission Legal Service,
Date posted to database: October 24, 2009
Last Revised: November 19, 2009
5 200 ‘Judging’ Economists: Economic Expertise in Competition Law Litigation - A European View
Ioannis Lianos,
University College London - Faculty of Laws,
Date posted to database: September 5, 2009
Last Revised: September 5, 2009
6 178 Can Bad Science Be Good Evidence: Lie Detection, Neuroscience, and the Mistaken Conflation of Legal and Scientific Norms
Frederick Schauer,
University of Virginia School of Law,
Date posted to database: August 13, 2009
Last Revised: October 2, 2009
7 172 Debacle: How the Supreme Court Has Mangled American Sentencing Law And How It Might Yet Be Mended
Frank O. Bowman III,
University of Missouri School of Law,
Date posted to database: September 10, 2009
Last Revised: September 16, 2009
8 167 Taming Twombly
Edward A. Hartnett,
Seton Hall University School of Law,
Date posted to database: August 16, 2009
Last Revised: October 5, 2009
9 165 The 2005 Rules of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration - Revisited
Simon Greenberg, Luke R. Nottage, Romesh Weeramantry,
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), University of Sydney - Faculty of Law, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK),
Date posted to database: September 28, 2009
Last Revised: September 28, 2009
10 129 Artificial Intelligence: Robots, Avatars and the Demise of the Human Mediator
David Allen Larson,
Hamline University - School of Law,
Date posted to database: August 26, 2009
Last Revised: August 26, 2009



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