Here is the June 2015 edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in the last 60 days) from SSRN’s U.S. Administrative Law eJournal, which is edited by William Funk. There are a number of terrific new papers, including great reads from Josh Chafetz, Gillian Metzger, Liz Porter, Cass Sunstein, and Adrian Vermeule. Here’s the top ten:

1. Managing for Social Change: Improving Labor Department Performance in a Partisan Era bySeth D. Harris (West Virginia Law Review forthcoming)

2. Cost-Benefit Analysis, Who’s Your Daddy? by Cass R. Sunstein (Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis forthcoming)

3. Deference and Due Process by Adrian Vermeule

4. Pragmatism Rules by Elizabeth G. Porter (Cornell Law Review forthcoming)

5. A Fourth Way?: Bringing Politics Back into Recess Appointments (and the Rest of the Separation of Powers, Too) by Josh Chafetz (64 Duke Law Journal Online 161)

6. Too Much Transparency? How Critics of Openness Misunderstand Administrative Development by Alasdair S. Roberts

7. The Constitutional Duty to Supervise by Gillian E. Metzger (Yale Law Journal forthcoming)

8. Congress, Tribal Recognition, and Legislative-Administrative Multiplicity by Kirsten Matoy Carlson

9. The Vexing Issue of the Revolving Door by Dieter Zinnbauer

10. Challenges to Tax Regulations: The APA and the Anti-Injunction Act by Patrick J. Smith(147 Tax Notes 915)

For more on why SSRN and this eJournal are such terrific resources for administrative law scholars and practitioners, check out my first post on the subject here. You can check out the full rankings, updated daily, here. Thanks to my terrific research assistant Molly Werhan for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back at the start of August with the next edition.

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