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ALL TIME HITS (for all papers in SSRN eLibrary)
TOP 10 Papers for Legal Scholarship Network

January 2, 1997 to November 22, 2009



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 74401 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
Daniel J. Solove,
George Washington University Law School,
Date posted to database: July 12, 2007
Last Revised: May 5, 2008
2 62874 Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
William H. Meckling, Michael C. Jensen,
Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased), Harvard Business School,
Date posted to database: July 19, 1998
Last Revised: October 12, 2008
3 46242 Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement
John R. Lott, William M. Landes,
University of Maryland Foundation, University of Maryland, University of Chicago Law School,
Date posted to database: April 21, 1999
Last Revised: June 7, 1999
4 25633 Fuck
Christopher M. Fairman,
Ohio State University - Michael E. Moritz College of Law,
Date posted to database: April 17, 2006
Last Revised: January 10, 2007
5 20278 Separation of Ownership and Control
Eugene F. Fama, Michael C. Jensen,
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School,
Date posted to database: November 29, 1998
Last Revised: August 14, 2006
6 19560 The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime
John J. Donohue, Steven D. Levitt,
Yale Law School, University of Chicago,
Date posted to database: August 12, 1999
Last Revised: May 1, 2001
7 18020 Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi,
The Brookings Institution, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank Institute,
Date posted to database: July 11, 2007
Last Revised: July 14, 2007
8 13531 What Matters in Corporate Governance?
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, Allen Ferrell,
Harvard University - Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Harvard Law School,
Date posted to database: September 21, 2004
Last Revised: April 17, 2009
9 12849 Governance Matters VII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2007
Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi,
The Brookings Institution, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank Institute,
Date posted to database: June 20, 2008
Last Revised: June 26, 2008
10 11024 Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
Paul A. Gompers, Joy L. Ishii, Andrew Metrick,
Harvard University - Finance Unit, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Yale School of Management,
Date posted to database: September 12, 2001
Last Revised: January 22, 2009

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)
TOP 10 Papers for Legal Scholarship Network

September 23, 2009 to November 22, 2009



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 3666 Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
Paul Ohm,
University of Colorado Law School,
Date posted to database: August 17, 2009
Last Revised: September 10, 2009
2 2151 Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be...Lawyers
Herwig J. Schlunk,
Vanderbilt University School of Law,
Date posted to database: October 31, 2009
Last Revised: November 13, 2009
3 1236 Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Peter B. Hirtle, Emily Hudson, Andrew T. Kenyon,
Cornell University Library, University of Melbourne - Law School, University of Melbourne Law School,
Date posted to database: November 2, 2009
Last Revised: November 2, 2009
4 1209 To Roth or Not to Roth: Analyzing the Conversion Opportunity for 2010 and Beyond
Richard L. Kaplan,
University of Illinois College of Law,
Date posted to database: September 23, 2009
Last Revised: October 10, 2009
5 1120 Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities that Enable It
Joseph Turow, Jennifer King, Jennifer King, Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Amy Bleakley, Michael Hennessy,
University of Pennsylvania - Annenberg School for Communication, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - Center for Law & Technology, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Annenberg Public Policy Center,
Date posted to database: September 29, 2009
Last Revised: September 29, 2009
6 680 Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?
Christian Laux, Christian Leuz,
Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business,
Date posted to database: October 15, 2009
Last Revised: October 26, 2009
7 632 Patent Claim Construction: A Modern Synthesis and Structured Framework
Peter S. Menell, Matthew D. Powers, Steven C. Carlson,
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Fish & Richardson P.C.,
Date posted to database: September 21, 2009
Last Revised: October 6, 2009
8 539 '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
9 501 Foreclosure, Subprime Mortgage Lending, and the Mortgage Electronic Registration System
Christopher Lewis Peterson,
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law,
Date posted to database: September 9, 2009
Last Revised: October 7, 2009
10 462 The Determinants of Music Piracy in a Sample of College Students
Marc F. Bellemare, Andrew M. Holmberg,
Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Government of the United States of America - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
Date posted to database: October 4, 2009
Last Revised: October 19, 2009



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