The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) contains (working) papers of 500 international law faculties, including 9 Dutch law faculties. Our faculty has its own series on SSRN: the Amsterdam Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series. 

Benefits of publishing on SSRN: 

• SSRN is one of the better platforms voor individual researchers to share their work with a global community of scholars. It increases the visibility of the researchers and offers opportunities to quickly join in current international debates. Publishing on SSRN is much faster than the more traditional ways of publishing, e.g. by writing a monograph. The platform creates opportunities for researchers to early on express and claim their innovative ideas. 
• A major advantage of pushing a working paper is that peers can relatively quickly provide their input and feedback which can improve your publication. 
• Within the law discipline hardly any quantitative indicators are used to prove the impact of scientific research. The SSRN platform offers one possibility by providing insight into download numbers of publications. These numbers can be used in a resume or in research assessments. 
• By using SSRN you contribute to the international visibility and reputation of research groups and/or the Amsterdam Law School as a whole. This may improve our ability to attract international talent. 

How to publish on SSRN? 

Researchers can upload their publications to SSRN themselves. A manual for researchers is available for this purpose. The Legal Library no longer uploads papers, but is available for support. If you have any questions, please contact Martine Veen at ssrn-fdr@uva.nl.

Please note: PhD candidates and postdocs need permission of their supervisor or the director of the research group in order to publish on SSRN.