With lots of new and exciting administrative law scholarship posted to SSRN in recent weeks, my reading listing is getting long. Here is the August 2021 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 Bill Funk.

1. Administrative Sabotage by David L. Noll (Michigan Law Review forthcoming)
2. The Class Appeal by Adam S. Zimmerman (University of Chicago Law Review  forthcoming)
3. Arbitrariness Review (With Special Reference to the Social Cost of Carbon) by Cass R. Sunstein
4. The Inequity of Informal Guidance by Joshua D. Blank & Leigh Osofsky (Vanderbilt Law Review forthcoming)
5. The Politics of Deference by Gregory Elinson & Jonathan Gould (Vanderbilt Law Review forthcoming)
6. The New Authoritarianism in Public Choice by David Froomkin & Ian Shapiro (Political Studies forthcoming)
7. Public Care in Public Law: Structure, Procedure, and Purpose by Blake Emerson (Harvard Law & Policy Review forthcoming)
8. Post-Grant Adjudication of Drug Patents: Agency and/or Court by Arti K. Rai, Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Jorge Lemus, & Erik Hovenkamp (Berkeley Technology Law Journal forthcoming)
9. Death Penalty Exceptionalism and Administrative Law by Corinna Lain (Belmont Law Review)
10. Gunfight at the New Deal Corral by Paul J. Larkin, Jr. & GianCarlo Canaparo (Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy forthcoming)

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 Shea Daley for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back in October with the next edition.