SSRN "Most Downloaded" Law Faculty Authors

That list is here (free registration required).  (I posted on the institutional list here.)  The list is updated each month.  Here are the 25 most-downloaded authors in the last 12 months, with institutional affiliation and primary area of publication in parentheses.  (You can click on other categories to re-rank by, e.g., downloads per paper, all-time downloads, and so on.)  As noted previously, SSRN is more heavily used by scholars in a few fields (corporate, law & economics, intellectual property), though perhaps the spectacle of a competition will increase usage in other fields! 

1.  Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard:  corporate, law & econ)

2.  Mark Lemley (Stanford:  intellectual property, law & econ)

3.  Bernard Black (Texas:  corporate, law & econ)

4.  Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA:  corporate)

5.  Francesco Parisi (George Mason:  law & econ, comparative)

6.  Cass Sunstein (Chicago:  constitutional, administrative, environmental, behavioral law & econ)

7.  William Landes (Chicago:  law & econ)

8.  John Coffee (Columbia:  corporate, procedure)

9.  Gregory Sidak (AEI:  telecommunications, Cyberlaw)

10. Orin Kerr (George Washington:  criminal)

11. Larry Solum (San Diego, moving to Illinois:  intellectual property, jurisprudence, procedure)

12. Ronald Gilson (Stanford/Columbia:  corporate, law & econ)

13. Jesse Fried (Berkeley:  corporate, law & econ)

14. Eric Posner (Chicago:  law & econ)

15. Reinier Kraakman (Harvard:  corporate, law & econ)

16. William Bratton (Georgetown:  corporate)

16. Allen Ferrell (Harvard:  corporate)

18. Lynn Stout (UCLA:  corporate)

19. Brian Leiter (Texas:  jurisprudence)

20. Timothy Wu (Virginia:  intellectual property)

21. Roberta Romano (Yale:  corporate)

22. Klaus Hopt (Max Planck Institute:  corporate)

23. Daniel Solove (George Washington:  Cyberlaw, privacy law)

24. Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt:  corporate, law & econ)

25. Patrick Ryan (Colorado/Louvain:  Cyberlaw, torts, procedure, comparative)

Word is that SSRN has a way of detecting those who download themselves, but so far, they aren't publishing the list of cheaters!  Ah, human vanity!