Legal Commentary

A friend from another law school wrote to ask the following interesting questions:

I?m trying to get a sense of what other schools? and scholars? ?norms? are regarding SSRN, and would really welcome and appreciate your thoughts.  So, at your school:  

-          Is every member of the faculty expected to be a listed author and, if so, is there a staff person or administrator who arranges this?

-          Is there a working sense about what kind of papers should / should not be put up?  Working papers only, or do people arrange to put older published work up as well?

-          Is it ?not done? for faculty members, when assigning their own papers, to send students to SSRN to download the paper?  (I gather that some faculty are known for racking up big download numbers by doing this?)

-          Do you allow students who have published scholarly papers to be included in your school?s SSRN author-list and download totals?