1.
The History of Corporate Governance
OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey and Igor Filatotchev, eds., Oxford University Press, 2013, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 54/2011, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 184/2012
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 22 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 20 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads
21,104
2.
Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song
56 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 335 (2009) , GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 392
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 21 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2019
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University - Law School
Downloads
10,893
3.
The Hidden History of the Second Amendment
U.C. Davis Law Review, Vol. 31, p. 309, 1998, Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 80
Number of pages: 102
Posted: 04 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 24 Sep 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Roger Williams University School of Law
Downloads
10,464
4.
A Brief History of Information Privacy Law
PROSKAUER ON PRIVACY, PLI, 2016, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 215
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 10 Jul 2006
Last Revised: 09 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University Law School
Downloads
10,390
5.
An Introduction to the History of International Human Rights Law
GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 346, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 346
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 03 Sep 2007
Working Paper Series
George Washington University - Law School
Downloads
8,867
6.
Law
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, 2008
, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-0095
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 10 Jan 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads
7,945
7.
Rule of Law and Modern Administrative Law
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 15 Feb 2011
Working Paper Series
IIT Law School, IIT Kharagpur
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7,933
8.
Understanding Legal Pluralism: Past to Present, Local to Global
Sydney Law Review, Vol. 29, 2007, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-0080
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 03 Sep 2007
Last Revised: 15 Aug 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads
5,902
9.
Sociological Jurisprudence - Theory of Roscoe Pound
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 13 Sep 2011
Working Paper Series
Symbiosis Law School
Downloads
5,825
10.
Theories and Models of Corporate Governance
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: A SYNTHESIS OF THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE, H. Kent Baker, Ronald Anderson, eds., John Wiley & Sons, 2010, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 213
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 28 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 24 Mar 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Davis - School of Law
Downloads
5,555
11.
Elusive Equality: The Armenian Genocide and the Failure of Ottoman Legal Reform
St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1600745, Islamic Law and Law of the Muslim World Paper, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 06 May 2010
Accepted Paper Series
St. John's University School of Law
Downloads
5,369
12.
The Myth of the Sole Inventor
Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1856610, 110 Michigan Law Review 709 (2012)
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 02 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School
Downloads
5,352
13.
The Reasons for Japanese Imperialism (1895-1910)
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 10 Nov 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Student/Alumni/Adjunct
Downloads
5,327
14.
The Influence of Immanuel Kant on Evidentiary Approaches in Eighteenth Century Bulgaria
18 The Green Bag 2d 251 (2015)
Number of pages: 4
Posted: 29 Mar 2015
Last Revised: 13 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Downloads
5,312
15.
Comparative Company Law
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 77/2006, THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE LAW, Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., p. 1161-1191, Oxford University Press, 2006
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 17 Apr 2007
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2011
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads
5,247
16.
How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution
6 Charleston Law Review 283 (2012)
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 04 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 08 May 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Independence InstituteDenver University - Sturm College of Law
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5,127
17.
Classical Common Law Jurisprudence (Part 1)
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 18 Nov 2003
Accepted Paper Series
University of North Carolina - Philosophy
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4,703
18.
Who Writes the Rules for Hostile Takeovers, and Why? The Peculiar Divergence of US and UK Takeover Regulation
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 95, p. 1727, 2007, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 73/2006
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 08 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Downloads
4,611
19.
Semantic Originalism
Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 07-24
Number of pages: 176
Posted: 16 Apr 2008
Last Revised: 25 Nov 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia School of Law
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4,593
20.
A Review on Judicial Activism in Pakistan
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 20 Feb 2018
Last Revised: 21 Feb 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Karachi
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4,535
21.
Conceptualizing Privacy
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 07 Jan 2005
Last Revised: 06 May 2008
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University Law School
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4,271
22.
Rediscovering Cumulative Creativity from the Oral Formulaic Tradition to Digital Remix: Can I Get a Witness?
13(2) J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 341 (2014)
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 24 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 24 Feb 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Queen's University Belfast - School of Law
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4,220
23.
What is Law and Development?
Revista Argentina de Teoria Juridica, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 09 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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4,199
24.
The Rise and Fall of the First American Patent Thicket: The Sewing Machine War of the 1850s
Arizona Law Review, Vol. 53, pp. 165-211, 2011, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-19
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 06 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 10 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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4,166
25.
The Ninth Amendment: It Means What it Says
Texas Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 1, 2006, Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 05-14
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 25 Aug 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
4,107
26.
Legal Realism as Theory of Law
William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 46, pp. 1915-2000, 2005
Number of pages: 86
Posted: 20 Jul 2005
Accepted Paper Series
William & Mary Law School
Downloads
4,106
27.
The Origins of Legal Language
OXFORD HANDBOOK ON LANGUAGE AND LAW, L. Solan, P. Tiersma, eds., 2010, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2009-45
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 21 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 04 Dec 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola Marymount University, Loyola Law School (Deceased)
Downloads
4,095
28.
Amnesty and Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment
36 Constitutional Commentary 87 (2021).
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 29 Dec 2020
Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Downloads
4,010
29.
The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 25 Jul 2001
Working Paper Series
Duke University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 25 Jul 2001
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3,987
The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East
Journal of Economic History, Vol. 63, No. 2, June 2003
Posted: 17 Oct 2002
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3,987
30.
Orwell Versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire
University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 89
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 19 Nov 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago Law School
Downloads
3,940
31.
Antebellum Islam
58:1 Howard L.J. 141 (2014)
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 11 Dec 2014
Last Revised: 21 Apr 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Wayne State University Law School
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3,934
32.
Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate before the Supreme Court's Ruling
Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 257
Number of pages: 406
Posted: 19 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 07 Sep 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Yale Law School and Yale University - Law School
Downloads
3,915
33.
The Law of Property in Ancient Roman Law
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 13 Jun 2017
Last Revised: 23 Jul 2020
Working Paper Series
Emory University School of Law
Downloads
3,873
34.
Canada and the Legacy of the Indian Residential Schools: Transitional Justice for Indigenous Peoples in a Non-Transitional Society
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 09 Apr 2009
Working Paper Series
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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3,861
35.
Term Limits for the Supreme Court: Life Tenure Reconsidered
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 29, No. 3, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 07-24
Number of pages: 110
Posted: 26 May 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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3,839
36.
Freedom of Contract
Liberty of Contract, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David S.
Tanenhaus ed. 2008), George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 08-51
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 20 Aug 2008
Last Revised: 28 Aug 2016
Accepted Paper Series
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
Downloads
3,838
37.
Privacy's Other Path: Recovering the Law of Confidentiality
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 96, p. 123, 2007, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 249, Washington U. School of Law Working Paper No. 07-03-02
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 13 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 13 Mar 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Washington University School of Law and George Washington University Law School
Downloads
3,633
38.
The History of the General Principle of Proportionality: An Overview
10 Dartmouth Law Journal 1-11 (2012).
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 09 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 13 May 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
3,593
39.
Comparing Insider Trading in the United States and in the European Union: History and Recent Developments
European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 257/2014, Bocconi Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2442049
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 29 May 2014
Last Revised: 09 Apr 2015
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University - Department of Law
Downloads
3,553
40.
Delegation at the Founding
Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 658
Number of pages: 120
Posted: 04 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 09 Dec 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan Law School
Downloads
3,520
41.
An Inquiry into the Role of Commissions of Inquiry in International Law: Navigating the Tensions between Fact-Finding and International Law Application
13 Chinese Journal of International Law (2014) 1-30, Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/031-ICL, Leiden Law School Research Paper
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 31 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Leiden University
Downloads
3,487
42.
Theorizing the European Union: Realist, Intergovernmentalist and Institutionalist Approaches
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 09 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
Temple University - Department of Political Science
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3,469
43.
Democracy, Anti-Democracy, and the Canon
Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 17, 2000
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 13 Jul 2000
Last Revised: 18 Oct 2013
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law
Downloads
3,431
44.
Was the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Conditioned on Service in an Organized Militia?
Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 03-12, Texas Law Review, Vol. 83, 2004
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 23 Jul 2003
Last Revised: 28 Dec 2007
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
3,405
45.
The History and Elements of the Rule of Law
Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-02-07
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 01 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 25 Apr 2013
Working Paper Series
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
The History and Elements of the Rule of Law
Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-02-07
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 01 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 25 Apr 2013
Downloads
3,382
The History and Elements of the Rule of Law
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, p. 232, December 2012
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 23 Apr 2013
Downloads
79
Downloads
3,382
46.
Positivism and the Inseparability of Law and Morals
New York University Law Review, Forthcoming, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15/2008
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 23 May 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
Downloads
3,378
47.
Law and the Rise of the Firm
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 326
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 03 Jan 2006
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
There are 3 versions of this paper
Law and the Rise of the Firm
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 326
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 03 Jan 2006
Downloads
3,360
Law and the Rise of the Firm
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 1333-1403, March 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 546
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 31 Jul 2006
Downloads
1,194
Law and the Rise of the Firm
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 09 Nov 2009
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3,360
48.
Indefinitely Renewable Copyright
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 18 Jul 2002
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads
3,349
49.
A Brief History of International Investment Agreements
U.C. Davis Journal of International Law & Policy, Vol. 12, No. 1, p. 157, 2005, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Research Paper No. 1478757
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 03 Nov 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Downloads
3,294
50.
Military-Intelligence Convergence and the Law of the Title 10/Title 50 Debate
Journal of National Security Law and Policy, Vol. 5, p. 539, 2012, University of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 212
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 18 Oct 2011
Last Revised: 05 Apr 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Texas School of Law
Downloads
3,272
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