A report from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), an online depository for scholarly articles and research papers, shows the academic works of Orin S. Kerr, Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law, and Daniel J. Solove, John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, are among the 10 most downloaded law professors.
The SSRN list of the top 3,000 law authors includes Professor Solove — in the second position — with a total of 263,111 downloads. His short essay, "'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy," has been downloaded more than 164,000 times. The essay was written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review in 2007.
Professor Kerr takes the 10th position with a total of 108,160 downloads. His work, "Internet Surveillance Law after the USA Patriot Act: The Big Brother that Isn't," has more than 11,000 downloads. The article focuses on three specific provisions of the Patriot Act.
GW Law is one of only two schools — along with Harvard — to have two scholars in the top 10.
The scholars are ranked by the total number of downloads. For an explanation of how SSRN compiles the rankings of the authors, click here.