Most cited papers in Legal principles and applications
What are the most cited papers in Legal principles and applications?
The most cited paper in Legal principles and applications is "The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications" (Thomas J. Donaldson, Lee E. Preston, 1995), with 9,229 citations. Next come "Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral" (1,954) and "THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN THE REVIVAL OF TRADE: THE LAW MERCHANT, PRIVATE JUDGES, AND THE CHAMPAGNE FAIRS" (1,822).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 187 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications Thomas J. Donaldson, Lee E. Preston · Academy of Management Review | 1995 | 9,229 |
| 2 | Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral Guido Calabresi, A. Douglas Melamed · Harvard Law Review | Apr 1972 | 1,954 |
| 3 | THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN THE REVIVAL OF TRADE: THE LAW MERCHANT, PRIVATE JUDGES, AND THE CHAMPAGNE FAIRS Paul Milgrom, Douglass C. North, Barry R. Weingast · Economics and Politics | Mar 1990 | 1,822 |
| 4 | Risk and Responsibility Anthony Giddens · Modern Law Review | 1999 | 1,565 |
| 5 | The provision of a sanctioning system as a public good. Toshio Yamagishi · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1986 | 1,284 |
| 6 | The Idea Of An Overlapping Consensus John Rawls · Oxford Journal of Legal Studies | 1987 | 1,075 |
| 7 | Voice, control, and procedural justice: Instrumental and noninstrumental concerns in fairness judgments. E. Allan Lind, Ruth Kanfer, P. Christopher Earley · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Nov 1990 | 787 |
| 8 | On Moral Hazard and Insurance Steven Shavell · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1979 | 695 |
| 9 | Taboo Trade‐offs: Reactions to Transactions That Transgress the Spheres of Justice Alan Page Fiske, Philip E. Tetlock · Political Psychology | Jun 1997 | 678 |
| 10 | THE BRAID GROUP AND OTHER GROUPS Frank Garside · The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics | 1969 | 663 |
| 11 | The Case for Specific Performance Alan Schwartz · The Yale Law Journal | Dec 1979 | 661 |
| 12 | Aggregating Sets of Judgments: An Impossibility Result Christian List, Philip N. Pettit · Economics and Philosophy | 14 Mar 2002 | 636 |
| 13 | Non‐Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach Martha C. Nussbaum · Oxford University Press eBooks | 11 Mar 1993 | 634 |
| 14 | Accountability in the Regulatory State Colin Scott · Journal of Law and Society | Mar 2000 | 629 |
| 15 | Using Equity Participation to Support Exchange: Evidence from the Biotechnology Industry Gary Paul Pisano · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization | 1989 | 622 |
| 16 | WRONGFUL LIFE, PROCREATIVE RESPONSIBILITY, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HARM Seana Valentine Shiffrin · Legal Theory | Jun 1999 | 570 |
| 17 | Historical Foundations of the Common Law Frederick G. Kempin, S. F. C. Milsom · American Journal of Legal History | Oct 1970 | 566 |
| 18 | The End of History for Corporate Law Henry B. Hansmann, Reinier H. Kraakman · Corporate Governance | 15 May 2017 | 544 |
| 19 | Contracting out by the public sector: theory, evidence, prospects Simon Domberger · Oxford Review of Economic Policy | Dec 1997 | 528 |
| 20 | Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy W Chan Kim, Renée A. Mauborgne · Knowledge management and organizational learning | 17 Aug 2006 | 523 |
| 21 | Damages for Breach of Contract: Compensation, Restitution and Vindication David Pearce, Roger Halson · Oxford Journal of Legal Studies | 17 Jan 2008 | 523 |
| 22 | PROMOTION OF INSULIN SECRETION BY GLUCAGON Ellis Samols, Germano Marri, Vincent Marks · The Lancet | Aug 1965 | 523 |
| 23 | The judgment proof problem Steven Shavell · International Review of Law and Economics | Jun 1986 | 512 |
| 24 | CRITIQUE OF DIALECTICAL REASON Wolfe Mays · Philosophical Books | 1978 | 488 |
| 25 | Should punitive damages be part of the judicial arsenal in contract cases? Ralph Cunnington · Legal Studies | 23 Mar 2006 | 475 |
| 26 | Old Habits Die Hard: Traditional Contract Formation in a Modern World Ingeborg Schwenzer, Florian Mohs · Internationales Handelsrecht | 24 Jan 2006 | 475 |
| 27 | A Brief History of Anticipatory Repudiation in American Contract Law Keith A. Rowley · Scholarly Commons - UNLV Boyd Law (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) | 2001 | 470 |
| 28 | LAW, LEGISLATION AND LIBERTY John Cottingham · Philosophical Books | 1978 | 429 |
| 29 | Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory George P. Fletcher · Harvard Law Review | 1972 | 421 |
| 30 | A Theory of Negligence Richard A. Posner · The Journal of Legal Studies | 1972 | 403 |
| 31 | Jurisdiction and Scale: Legal `Technicalities' as Resources for Theory Mariana Valverde · Social & Legal Studies | 20 May 2009 | 391 |
| 32 | The Combined Code on Corporate Governance John Everett Parkinson, Gavin Kelly · The Political Quarterly | 1999 | 380 |
| 33 | Reflections on the Harmonisation of Commercial Law (*) Roy Goode · Uniform Law Review | 1991 | 375 |
| 34 | Law as a Product: Some Pieces of the Incorporation Puzzle Roberta Romanò · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization | 1985 | 363 |
| 35 | A Concise History of the Common Law Earl Finbar Murphy, Theodore F. T. Plucknett · American Journal of Legal History | Jul 1957 | 362 |
| 36 | Contractual Solutions to the Hold-Up Problem William P. Rogerson · The Review of Economic Studies | Oct 1992 | 362 |
| 37 | Uniform law Conventions and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts Jürgen Basedow · Uniform Law Review | 2000 | 360 |
| 38 | Comparative Ruminations on the Foreseeability of Damages in Contract Law Franco Ferrari · eYLS (Yale Law School) | 1993 | 359 |
| 39 | The Transplant Effect Daniel Berkowitz, Katharina Pistor, Jean‐François Richard · The American Journal of Comparative Law | 2003 | 358 |
| 40 | Mobilizing the Law in China: “Informed Disenchantment” and the Development of Legal Consciousness Mary Elizabeth Gallagher · Law & Society Review | 28 Nov 2006 | 347 |
| 41 | Exemptions of Contract Liability Under the 1980 United Nations Convention Wanki Lee · bepress Legal Repository | 1990 | 347 |
| 42 | The Missing Interest: Restoration of the Contractual Equivalence Eyal Zamir · SSRN Electronic Journal | 31 Mar 2006 | 346 |
| 43 | A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations Thomas P. Gallanis, David J. Ibbetson · American Journal of Legal History | Oct 2000 | 339 |
| 44 | The Social License to Operate Geert Demuijnck, Björn H. Fasterling · Journal of Business Ethics | 15 Jan 2016 | 336 |
| 45 | Values and Consequences: An Introduction to Economic Analysis of Law Richard A. Posner · bepress Legal Repository | 1998 | 334 |
| 46 | Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm Robert C. Feenstra, Gordon Hanson · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 2005 | 331 |
| 47 | Marketable Permits: Lessons for Theory and Practice Robert W. Hahn · bepress Legal Repository | 1989 | 330 |
| 48 | The Law of Obligations: Roman Foundations of the Civilian Tradition Peter A.S. Stein, Reinhard Zimmermann · American Journal of Legal History | 1994 | 321 |
| 49 | Changing Contract Lenses: Unexpected Supervening Events in English, New Zealand, U.S., Japanese, and International Sales Law and Practice Nottage · Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies | 2007 | 320 |
| 50 | A positive theory of statutory interpretation John Ferejohn, Barry R. Weingast · International Review of Law and Economics | Jun 1992 | 312 |
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