SSRN recently distributed the following information about new brain-related abstracting journals: LAW, BRAIN & BEHAVIOR JOURNALS Law is concerned with organizing and constraining human behavior. As a result, some model of human behavior, implicit or explicit, underlies legal principles and analysis. Papers in LAW, BRAIN & BEHAVIOR employ conceptual and empirical findings from various ...

... scholars post articles on teaching and even some suggested exercises on SSRN. Larry Cunningham (GW) edits ... website devoted just to sharing teaching materials. SSRN is great, but the disadvantages are that teaching materials can get lost ... site that students can’t access. But a new website could have many advantages of SSRN. For example, download counts could be used as one metric of the success ...

SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 620 American and international law school faculties and 1,500 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN data base. Here is the new list (through November 18, 2009) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two...

... has a book-length project that one would like (a) to abridge for a law review submission come spring; and (b) later, perhaps in the summer, to submit to book publishers.  Does posting the thing now to SSRN hurt one's chances on either count?  The reasons to post would be the usual ones to get feedback and mark off the territory, but these reasons would likely be overridden if posting would ...

Julie Beardsell’s paper entitled, “Managing Culture as Critical Success Factor in Outsourcing” was recently listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for ERN: Culture & Leadership (Topic), ERPN: Capabilities (Topic), ERPN: Culture (Strategy) (Topic), ERPN: Entrepreneurs (Innovation) (Topic), ERPN: Opportunities (Topic), Information Systems & eBusiness Research Centers ...

From a Blog Post: iSSRN, our free iPhone App, was released recently. It provides instant access to the latest Social Science and Humanities research in the SSRN eLibrary from scholars around the world. iSSRN is available from Apple’s iTunes store. {Snip] Note: This is an updated version of the previous iSSRN App and this version, not the previous one, will be updated in the future. Access ...