Top Five SSRN Torts Papers

1.  Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime
  John R. Lott Jr. and John E. Whitley 
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and  University of Adelaide – School of Economics 
Date Posted:May 22, 2000
Last Revised:June 10, 2002
Working Paper Series
8870 downloads

2.  Cognition and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cass R. Sunstein 
University of Chicago Law School
Date Posted:October 14, 1999
Last Revised:November 14, 1999
Working Paper Series
2509 downloads

3.  Stability, Not Crisis: Medical Malpractice Claim Outcomes in Texas, 1988-2002
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 2, pp. 207-259, 2005
Bernard S. Black,  Charles Silver,  David A. Hyman and  William M. Sage 
University of Texas at Austin – School of Law, University of Texas Law School [Ed. note: Hook ’em], University of Illinois College of Law and Columbia Law School
Date Posted:October 25, 2005
Last Revised:January 23, 2006
Accepted Paper Series
1600 downloads

4.  Event Studies and the Law – Part I: Technique and Corporate Litigation
Sanjai Bhagat and Roberta Romano 
Leeds School of Business and  Yale Law School
Date Posted: May 1, 2001
Last Revised:January 16, 2002
Working Paper Series
1395 downloads

5.  The Cat in the Microwave? (Die Katze in der Mikrowelle?)
Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft, Vol. 8, p. 598, 2003
Georg Wenglorz and Patrick S. Ryan 
Independent and  University of Colorado at Boulder, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program
Date Posted:January 3, 2004
Last Revised:January 29, 2004
Accepted Paper Series
1381 downloads