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Top Ten – Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility – December 21, 2006

We post our final top ten of the year with a complete non-sequitur.  “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” are worth listening to just about any time or anySanta_2 place.  The most annoying Christmas song is “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.”

Here are the papers with the most downloads in the Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility Journal, as reported by SSRN for the last sixty days.

1 Law and the Humanities:  An Uneasy Relationship, Jack M. Balkin, Sanford Levinson, Yale University – Law School, University of Texas Law School

2 To Make or to Buy:  In-House Lawyering and Value Creation, Steven L. Schwarcz, Duke University School of Law

3 Options Backdating, Tax Shelters, and Corporate Culture Victor Fleischer, University of Colorado at Boulder – School of Law

4  How an Instrumental View of Law Corrodes the Rule of Law, Brian Z. Tamanaha, St. John’s University School of Law

5 Scholarship Advice for New Law Professors in the Electronic Age, Nancy Levit, UMKC School of Law

6 The Strict Character of Fiduciary Liability Robert Flannigan,University of Saskatchewan

7 Enlisting the Tax BarDavid Schizer,Columbia Law School

8 Open Access, Law, Knowledge, Copyrights, Dominance and Subordination Ann Bartow
University of South Carolina – School of Law

9 Fear, Legal Indeterminacy and the American Lawyering Culture Michael Hatfield,Texas Tech University School of Law

10 Popular Culture and the Adversarial System Michael Asimow, UCLA School of Law

[Jeff Lipshaw]