SSRN Legal History eJournal

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

Brian R. Cheffins

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

Downloads 13,054

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: 05 Jul 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Robert Brauneis

George Washington University - Law School

Downloads 10,109

3.

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

Daniel J. Solove

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 6,971

4.

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

Dinah L. Shelton

George Washington University - Law School

Downloads 6,816

5.

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

Carl T. Bogus

Roger Williams University School of Law

Downloads 6,680

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

Brian Z. Tamanaha

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

Downloads 5,860

7.

The Myth of the Sole Inventor

Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1856610

Number of pages: 108 Posted: 02 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012

Working Paper Series

Mark A. Lemley

Stanford Law School

Downloads 4,693

8.

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

Mark L. Movsesian

St. John's University School of Law

Downloads 4,545

9.

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

Klaus J. Hopt

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Downloads 4,539

10.

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

Orin S. Kerr

The George Washington University Law School

Downloads 4,536

11.

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

Thomas Wuil Joo

University of California, Davis - School of Law

Downloads 4,348

12.

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

Brian Z. Tamanaha

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

Downloads 3,960

13.

Classical Common Law Jurisprudence (Part 1)

Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 155-180, Spring 2003

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Nov 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Gerald J. Postema

University of North Carolina - Philosophy and Law

Downloads 3,945

14.

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, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 73/2006

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 08 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2010

Accepted Paper Series

John Armour and David A. Skeel Jr.

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 3,836

15.

The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-12

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Jul 2001

Working Paper Series

Timur Kuran

Duke University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,833

16.

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

Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 3,739

17.

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

Lawrence B. Solum

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 3,637

18.

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

Richard A. Posner

University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 3,583

19.

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

Adam Mossoff

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty

Downloads 3,469

20.

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

David B. Kopel

Independence Institute

Downloads 3,458

21.

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

Michael S Green

William & Mary Law School

Downloads 3,362

22.

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

Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 3,297

23.

Rule of Law and Modern Administrative Law

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Feb 2011

Working Paper Series

Vivek Ranjan

IIT Law School, IIT Kharagpur

Downloads 3,225

24.

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

Neil M. Richards and Daniel J. Solove

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and George Washington University Law School

Downloads 3,195

25.

Indefinitely Renewable Copyright

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 154

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Jul 2002

Working Paper Series

William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner

University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 3,116

26.

Sociological Jurisprudence - Theory of Roscoe Pound

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Sep 2011

Working Paper Series

Debarati Pal

Symbiosis Law School

Downloads 3,046

27.

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

David Bernstein

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty

Downloads 2,991

28.

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: 07 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Giancarlo Frosio

Université de Strasbourg - CEIPI

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,933

29.

Conceptualizing Privacy

California Law Review, Vol. 90, p. 1087, 2002

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 07 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 06 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Daniel J. Solove

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 2,889

30.

Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate

Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 61, No. 1, August 2011 , CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 26 May 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Daniel Martin Katz, Joshua R. Gubler, Jon Zelner, Michael James Bommarito II, Eric A. Provins and Eitan M. Ingall

Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, Brigham Young University - Department of Political Science, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Center for Study of Complex Systems, LexPredict, LLC, University of Michigan - Department of Political Science and Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

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31.

A Law of Rules: A Critique and Reconstruction of Justice Scalia's View of the Rule of Law

APA Newsletters, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Mar 2002

Accepted Paper Series

Lawrence B. Solum

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 2,808

32.

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

Mariana Mota Prado

University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

Downloads 2,787

33.

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

Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire

Yale Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,778

34.

Constitutional Courts Vs. Religious Fundamentalism: Three Middle Eastern Tales

Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, U Toronto, Public Law Research Paper No. 04-08

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 Nov 2004 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Ran Hirschl

University of Toronto

Downloads 2,689

35.

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

Robert Chesney

University of Texas School of Law

Downloads 2,687

36.

The Great Gun Control War of the 20th Century — And its Lessons for Gun Laws Today

Fordham Urban Law Journal, vol. 39, no. 5, pages 1527-1666 (October 2012)

Number of pages: 95 Posted: 30 May 2012 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2013

Accepted Paper Series

David B. Kopel

Independence Institute

Downloads 2,640

37.

Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship

Michigan Law Review First Impressions, Vol. 107, No. 1, 2008, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 08-14

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 11 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Gabriel "Jack" Chin

University of California, Davis - School of Law

Downloads 2,589

38.

The Rule of Law for Everyone?

St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Feb 2003

Working Paper Series

Brian Z. Tamanaha

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,575

39.

Why Does the American Constitution Lack Social and Economic Guarantees?

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 36

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 31 Jan 2003

Working Paper Series

Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,555

40.

The Web of Law

San Diego Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-11

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Jan 2005

Working Paper Series

Thomas A. Smith

University of San Diego School of Law

Downloads 2,502

41.

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

Steven G. Calabresi and James Lindgren

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 2,480

42.

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

Peter Tiersma

Loyola Marymount University, Loyola Law School (Deceased)

Downloads 2,453

43.

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

Leslie Green

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

Downloads 2,443

44.

The Lethal Injection Quandary: How Medicine Has Dismantled the Death Penalty

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 49-128, 2007, Fordham Legal Studies Research Paper No. 983732

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 01 May 2007 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Deborah W. Denno

Fordham University School of Law

Downloads 2,432

45.

Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 93, p. 139, 2007, University of Cincinnati Public Law Research Paper No. 06-04

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 23 Feb 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Suja A. Thomas

University of Illinois College of Law

Downloads 2,430

46.

Coase Theorem

NEW PALGRAVE DICTIONARY OF ECONOMICS, 2nd ed., L. Blume and S. Durlaufe, eds., Macmillan Ltd., 2007, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-12

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Apr 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Francesco Parisi

University of Minnesota - Law School

Downloads 2,409

47.

Who Can Be President of the United States?: Candidate Hillary Clinton and the Problem of Statutory Qualifications

5(1) Br. J. Am. Leg. Studies 95-121 (2016) (peer reviewed)

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 09 May 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Seth Barrett Tillman

National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law

Downloads 2,389

48.

Why We Should Stop Teaching Dodge v. Ford

UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 07-11

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2008

Working Paper Series

Lynn A. Stout

Cornell Law School - Jack G. Clarke Business Law Institute

Downloads 2,351

49.

What is Originalism? The Evolution of Contemporary Originalist Theory

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 May 2011

Working Paper Series

Lawrence B. Solum

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 2,343

50.

The Dark Side of the Relationship between the Rule of Law and Liberalism

NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, Vol. 33, 2008, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-0096

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 Jan 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Z. Tamanaha

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

Downloads 2,339

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