Tag Archives: Georgetown University Law Center

Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 22, 2013

1. Gone in 60 Seconds: The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales by Brett Danaher (Wellesley College – Department of Economics) and Michael Smith (Carnegie Mellon University – H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management) Brett Danaher, Michael Smith With a large body of the academic literature finding that illegal [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – March 8, 2013

1. Afterword: The Libertarian Middle Way by Randy Barnett (Georgetown University Law Center) 2. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory by Matthew Jackson (Stanford University – Department of Economics) 3. What Privacy Is For by Julie Cohen (Georgetown University Law Center) 4. The Transnational Origins of Constitutions: Evidence from a New Global [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 31, 2012

1. Global Value: Building Trading Models with the 10 Year CAPE by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius: Five Takes by Glenn Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law) and Brannon Denning (Samford University – Cumberland School of Law) 3. The Trend is Our Friend: Risk Parity, [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – August 17, 2012

1. Defending Junk-Debt-Buyer Lawsuits by Peter Holland (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) 2. A Transactional Genealogy of Scandal: From Michael Milken to Enron to Goldman Sachs by William Bratton (University of Pennsyvlania Law School) and Adam Levitin (Georgetown University Law Center) 3. Acqui-Hiring by John Coyle (University of North Carolina School [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 25, 2012

1. What is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science) 2. The Harmful Side Effects of Drug Prohibition by Randy Barnett (Georgetown University Law Center) 3. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – January 28, 2011

1. Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2010 by Jason Eiseman (Yale University) and Roger V. Skalbeck (Georgetown University Law Center) 2. Ranking of the Mutual Fund Industry in Spain: 1991-2010 (Ranking de Gestoras de Fondos de Inversión) (In Spanish) by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – IESE Business School) and Javier Aguirreamalloa (affiliation [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 22, 2010

1. Are State Public Pensions Sustainable? Why the Federal Government Should Worry About State Pension Liabilities by Joshua D. Rauh (Northwestern University – Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) 2. Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System’s Land Title Theory by Christopher Lewis Peterson (University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – September 24, 2010

1. Regulating the Shadow Banking System by Gary B. Gorton (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) and Andrew Metrick (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) 2. Commandeering the People: Why the Individual Health Insurance Mandate is Unconstitutional by Randy E. Barnett (Georgetown University Law Center) 3. Scholarly [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 28, 2010

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending May 28, 2010: 1. The Subjects of the Constitution by Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz (Georgetown University Law Center) 2. Market Risk Premium Used in 2010 by Analysts and Companies: A Survey with 2,400 Answers by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra – [...]
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