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As of: 21 Jul 2017 - 19 Sep 2017

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Unprecedented? Judicial Confirmation Battles and the Search for a Usable Past Josh Chafetz Cornell Law School Date Posted: 25 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2017	274
2.	Legal History As Legal Scholarship: Doctrinalism, Interdisciplinarity, and Critical Analysis of Law Markus D. Dubber University of Toronto - Faculty of Law Date Posted: 20 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2017	251
3.	The Public Life of Private Law: Tort Law as a Risk Regulation Mechanism Douglas A. Kysar Yale University - Law School Date Posted: 24 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2017	233
4.	When Did Tax Avoidance Become Respectable? Steven A. Bank University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law Date Posted: 08 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2017	230
5.	Conference Paper, Karl Popper’s Falsifiability: The Foreign Emoluments Clause — A Debate Between Constitutional Eloi and Constitutional Morlocks Seth Barrett Tillman National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law Date Posted: 24 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2017	222
6.	Death and the War Power Mary L. Dudziak Emory University School of Law Date Posted: 27 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2017	186
7.	The Law According to the Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time Andrew Jensen Kerr Georgetown University Law Center Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2017	184
8.	Codification of the Tax Law and the Emergence of the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation George K. Yin University of Virginia School of Law Date Posted: 27 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2017	153
9.	Natural Rights and the First Amendment Jud Campbell University of Richmond School of Law Date Posted: 12 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2017	145
10.	Justice Souter's Common Law Charles L. Barzun University of Virginia School of Law Date Posted: 13 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2017	137

All Time Top Papers

As of: 02 Jan 1997 - 19 Sep 2017

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	The History of Corporate Governance Brian R. Cheffins University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law Date Posted: 22 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 20 May 2013	12,917
2.	Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song Robert Brauneis George Washington University - Law School Date Posted: 21 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2013	10,092
3.	A Brief History of Information Privacy Law Daniel J. Solove George Washington University Law School Date Posted: 10 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2017	6,930
4.	An Introduction to the History of International Human Rights Law Dinah L. Shelton George Washington University - Law School Date Posted: 03 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2015	6,747
5.	The Hidden History of the Second Amendment Carl T. Bogus Roger Williams University School of Law Date Posted: 04 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2015	6,182
6.	Law Brian Z. Tamanaha Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law Date Posted: 10 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2008	5,760
7.	The Myth of the Sole Inventor Mark A. Lemley Stanford Law School Date Posted: 02 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012	4,680
8.	The Influence of Immanuel Kant on Evidentiary Approaches in Eighteenth Century Bulgaria Orin S. Kerr The George Washington University Law School Date Posted: 29 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2015	4,526
9.	Comparative Company Law Klaus J. Hopt Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Date Posted: 17 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2011	4,523
10.	Elusive Equality: The Armenian Genocide and the Failure of Ottoman Legal Reform Mark L. Movsesian St. John's University School of Law Date Posted: 06 May 2010 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2014	4,520