1.
How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students
11 The Green Bag 2d 51 (2007).
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 16 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 09 Mar 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Downloads
59,707
2.
A Simple Test for the Extent of Vote Fraud with Absentee Ballots in the 2020 Presidential Election: Georgia and Pennsylvania Data
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 29 Dec 2020
Last Revised: 11 Jan 2021
Working Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center
Downloads
54,488
3.
Fuck
Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 59, Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies Working Paper Series No. 39
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 17 Apr 2006
Working Paper Series
Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law
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38,056
4.
Law on Obligations and Contracts in the Philippines: An Overview
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 29 Apr 2014
Working Paper Series
Far Eastern University
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27,089
5.
Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
UCLA Law Review, Vol. 57, p. 1701, 2010, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 9-12
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 13 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 22 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
24,475
6.
The Perfect Crime
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 93, No. 2, 2005, MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 02-14
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 25 Mar 2005
Last Revised: 29 Jun 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Michigan State University College of Law
Downloads
23,760
7.
The Right to Remain Silent: A New Answer to an Old Question
Criminal Justice, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2010
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 01 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 05 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Regent University - School of Law
Downloads
22,833
8.
Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases
University of Michigan Law and Economics Research Paper, No. 12-018
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 10 Sep 2012
Last Revised: 27 Nov 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago
Downloads
21,841
9.
The Effect of President Trump's Election on Hate Crimes
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 18 Jan 2018
Last Revised: 31 Jan 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Department of Marketing, Industrial Distribution & Economics and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Downloads
19,618
10.
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Cato Institute Whitepaper Series
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 02 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2010
Working Paper Series
Independent
There are 2 versions of this paper
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Cato Institute Whitepaper Series
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 02 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2010
Downloads
15,259
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Posted: 29 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 07 Feb 2013
Downloads
15,259
11.
Publishing Advice for Graduate Students
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 18 Jan 2008
Last Revised: 05 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
Durham University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Publishing Advice for Graduate Students
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 18 Jan 2008
Last Revised: 05 Jan 2015
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14,383
Publishing Advice for Graduate Students
Post-Graduate Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 4-12, November 2003
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 01 Dec 2005
Last Revised: 11 Sep 2010
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4,423
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14,383
12.
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 09 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 09 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
Baylor University, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and University of Texas at Arlington - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 09 Feb 2020
Downloads
14,139
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 11-042
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 15 Jul 2011
Downloads
1,482
Downloads
14,139
13.
The Fall of Enron
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 03-38
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 17 Oct 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
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14,048
14.
Liberal Radicalism: A Flexible Design For Philanthropic Matching Funds
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 18 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 31 Dec 2018
Working Paper Series
Ethereum Foundation, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Microsoft
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13,375
15.
Internet Surveillance Law after the USA Patriot Act: The Big Brother that Isn't
97 Northwestern University Law Review 607 (2003).
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 19 Jul 2002
Last Revised: 25 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Downloads
12,350
16.
Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 11 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 21 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business
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12,164
17.
Logic for Law Students: How to Think Like a Lawyer
University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Vol. 69, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 02 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 28 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, University of Arkansas - School of Law and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
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11,570
18.
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be...Lawyers
Vanderbilt Law and Economics Working Paper No. 09-29
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 31 Oct 2009
Last Revised: 12 Jan 2010
Working Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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11,220
19.
Drugged Out: How Cognitive Bias Hurts Drug Innovation
51 San Diego Law Review 419 (2014)
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 01 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 09 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
Downloads
11,208
20.
2017 Global Blockchain Benchmarking Study
Number of pages: 122
Posted: 21 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 20 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics and University of Cambridge - Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
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11,076
21.
A User's Guide to the Stored Communications Act, and a Legislator's Guide to Amending it
72 George Washington Law Review 1208 (2004).
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 05 Aug 2003
Last Revised: 06 Jul 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Downloads
11,022
22.
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
10,777
23.
Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 20 Jul 2015
Working Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center, Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center
Downloads
10,621
24.
Law and Borders - the Rise of Law in Cyberspace
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 48, p. 1367, 1996
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 01 Feb 1997
Accepted Paper Series
Independent and Independent
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10,495
25.
The Law and Legality of Smart Contracts
1 Georgetown Law Technology Review 304 (2017)
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 25 Sep 2016
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law
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10,414
26.
Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime
Yale Law School, Law & Economics Working Paper No. 237
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 22 May 2000
Working Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center
There are 2 versions of this paper
Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime
Yale Law School, Law & Economics Working Paper No. 237
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 22 May 2000
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10,385
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10,385
27.
Cybercrime's Scope: Interpreting 'Access' and 'Authorization' in Computer Misuse Statutes
78 New York University Law Review 1596 (2003).
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 18 Feb 2004
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Downloads
10,378
28.
Facebook Tracks and Traces Everyone: Like This!
Tilburg Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 03/2011
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 01 Dec 2010
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
TNO Information and Communication Technology in Delft
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9,938
29.
Contracts for Clouds: Comparison and Analysis of the Terms and Conditions of Cloud Computing Services
Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 63/2010
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 02 Sep 2010
Working Paper Series
Queen Mary University of London - Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London, School of Law - Centre for Commercial Law Studies and Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
Downloads
9,544
30.
A Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools
69 Alabama Law Review 495 (2017)
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 17 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 13 Jan 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Roger Williams University School of Law and University of Kentucky - College of Law
Downloads
9,383
31.
Encryption Workarounds
106 Georgetown Law Journal 989 (2018).
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 22 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 13 May 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley School of Law and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Downloads
9,103
32.
How a Botched Study Fooled the World About the U.S. Share of Mass Public Shootings: U.S. Rate is Lower than Global Average
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 28 Sep 2018
Working Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center
Downloads
8,761
33.
Defending the Right to Self Representation: An Empirical Look at the Pro Se Felony Defendant
North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 423-487, January 2007, UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-002
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 17 May 2006
Last Revised: 02 Oct 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Georgia School of Law
Downloads
8,578
34.
Why Do Most Countries Ban Mail-In Ballots?: They Have Seen Massive Vote Fraud Problems
Number of pages: 152
Posted: 09 Aug 2020
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2021
Working Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center
Downloads
8,558
35.
Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System's Land Title Theory
William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 01 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
Downloads
8,158
36.
Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling
103 Iowa Law Review 571 (2018)
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 16 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 09 Mar 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Independent
Downloads
8,016
37.
Introduction to Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research
THEORY AND METHOD IN SOCIAL-LEGAL RESEARCH, R. Banakar, M. Travers, eds., Oxford, Hart, 2005
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 11 Dec 2009
Last Revised: 16 Dec 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lund University - Sociology of Law and University of Tasmania
Downloads
7,835
38.
Is Disruptive Blockchain Technology the Future of Financial Services?
69 The Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 232 (2016)
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 31 May 2016
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads
7,594
39.
Fundamentals of Intellectual Property: Cases & Materials
Number of pages: 472
Posted: 25 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Working Paper Series
University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center)
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7,581
40.
Should Law Subsidize Driving?
95 New York University Law Review 498 (2020), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-03
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 04 Mar 2019
Last Revised: 18 May 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of Iowa College of Law
Downloads
7,445
41.
The Internet of Things and Wearable Technology: Addressing Privacy and Security Concerns without Derailing Innovation
Adam Thierer, The Internet of Things and Wearable Technology: Addressing Privacy and Security Concerns without Derailing Innovation, 21 RICH. J.L. & TECH. 6 (2015).
Number of pages: 118
Posted: 12 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 20 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
George Mason University - Mercatus Center
Downloads
7,262
42.
Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States: 2016
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 27 Jul 2016
Working Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center
Downloads
7,248
43.
A Short Treatise on Fantasy Sports and the Law: How America Regulates its New National Pastime
Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law, Vol. 3, January 2012
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 09 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 05 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
City University of New York - Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business
Downloads
7,221
44.
Submission of Law Student Articles for Publication
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 10 Aug 2010
Last Revised: 02 Sep 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law, University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law, University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law and University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law
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7,104
45.
DeFi and the Future of Finance
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 15 Dec 2020
Last Revised: 05 Apr 2021
Working Paper Series
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Independent and Fei Protocol
Downloads
7,091
46.
Secret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008
American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83, p. 253, 2009
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 05 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 16 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Downloads
7,083
47.
Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use
Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 117, 2016
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Last Revised: 08 Sep 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Downloads
7,037
48.
The Internet as a Conduit for Criminal Activity
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, Pattavina, A., ed., pp. 77-98, Sage Publications, Inc., 2005 (revised 2010, 2015)
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 13 Jun 2005
Last Revised: 23 Oct 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds
Downloads
6,994
49.
Race, the War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction
Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Vol. 6. p. 253, 2002
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 06 May 2003
Last Revised: 14 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Davis - School of Law
Downloads
6,716
50.
Fake News: A Legal Perspective
Journal of Internet Law (Apr. 2017)
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 26 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Klein Moynihan Turco LLP and Newsday Media Group
Downloads
6,667
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