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The 10 Most Popular Articles in the University of Southern California*
  1. After Kelo, Curbing Opportunistic TIF-Driven Economic Development: Forgoing Ineffectual Blight Tests; Empowering Property Owners and School Districts, George Lefcoe, University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series.
  2. The levers of legal design: Institutional determinants of the quality of law, Gillian K. Hadfield, University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series.
  3. Framing the Choice between Cash and Courthouse: Experiences with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, Gillian K. Hadfield, Selected Works of Gillian K Hadfield.
  4. Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat, Richard A. Easterlin, University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series.
  5. Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control Over Corporate Legal Markets, Gillian K. Hadfield, Selected Works of Gillian K Hadfield.
  6. Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis, Ehud Kamar, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Eric Talley, University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series.
  7. 17. Quas, J.A., Wallin, A.R., Horwitz, B., Davis, E., & Lyon, T.D. (in press). Maltreated children’s understanding of and emotional reactions to dependency court involvement. Behavioral Sciences & the Law., Thomas D. Lyon, Selected Works of Thomas D. Lyon.
  8. Contract Law is Not Enough: The Many Legal Institutions That Support Contractual Commitments, Gillian K. Hadfield, University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series.
  9. Working toward Democracy: Thurgood Marshall and the Constitution of Kenya, Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series.
  10. Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control over Corporate Legal Markets, Gillian K. Hadfield, University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series.

*Based on the average number of full-text downloads per day since the paper was posted.
Updated as of 07/18/08.