Not much real news in the dog days of summer...

...so time for more fun with SSRN downloads, from the July stats.

The top 20 law schools with the most downloads in the last 12 months (total # of downloads):

1.  Harvard Law School (42,319)

2.  Columbia Law School (30,156)

3.  University of Chicago Law School (29,253)

4.  University of Texas School of Law (28,914)

5.  University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (26,841)

6.  Yale Law School (24,105)

7.  Stanford Law School (23.980)

8.  George Washington University Law School (23,559)

9.  University of Illinois College of Law (18,886)

10. Georgetown University Law Center (18,221)

11. University of Minnesota School of Law (16,274)

12. Vanderbilt University School of Law (15,701)

13. New York University School of Law (14,185)

14. University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law (12,890)

15. University of Southern California Law School (12,781)

16. George Mason University School of Law (12,556)

17. University of Pennsylvania Law School (10,896)

18. Boston University School of Law (9,868)

19. University of San Diego School of Law (9,565)

20. Duke University School of Law (8,675)

20. University of Michigan Law School (8,675)

The top 20 law schools (with at least 20 papers) with the most donwloads-per-paper in the last 12 months (# of new papers; # of downloads per paper):

1.  University of Texas School of Law (68 papers; 130 per paper)

2.  Columbia Law School (51 papers; 110 per paper)

3.  George Washington University School of Law (71 papers; 106 per paper)

4.  Yale Law School (60 papers; 91 per paper)

5.  Stanford Law School (39 papers; 89 per paper)

6.  University of Cincinnati College of Law (22 papers; 85 per paper)

7.  University of Chicago Law School (76 papers; 83 per paper)

8.  Ohio State University College of Law (36 papers; 80 per paper)

9.  University of Colorado Law School (24 papers; 79 per paper)

10. University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (83 papers; 77 per paper)

10. Harvard Law School (107 papers; 77 per paper)

12. University of Illinois College of Law (64 papers; 74 per paper)

13. Georgetown University Law Center (55 papers; 72 per paper)

13. University of Southern California Law School (23 papers; 72 per paper)

15.  Rutgers University-Camden School of Law (20 papers; 70 per paper)

16. Marquette University Law School (32 papers; 68 per paper)

17. Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law (34 papers; 67 per paper)

18. University of Minnesota Law School (86 papers; 65 per paper)

19. Boston University School of law (24 papers; 64 per paper)

20. George Mason University School of Law (48 papers; 62 per paper)