This year has been a terrific one for new administrative law scholarship, and I’m looking forward to drafts of new papers being posted to SSRN in the coming weeks and months as the spring law review submission cycle begins. But here is the final 2018 edition — the December 2018 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. Sludge and Ordeals by Cass R. Sunstein (Duke Law Journal forthcoming)
2. Beyond Notice-and-Comment: The Making of the § 199A Regulations by Shu-Yi Oei & Leigh Osofsky
3. Chevron as Construction by Lawrence B. Solum & Cass R. Sunstein
4. Transparency and Algorithmic Governance by Cary Coglianese & David Lehr (Administrative Law Review forthcoming)
5. Constitutional Tensions in Agency Adjudication by Christopher J. Walker (Iowa Law Review forthcoming)
6. Recommendations Following the FTC’s October 2018 Hearings on IP and Innovation by Koren Wong-Ervin & Georgios Effraimidis (Competition Policy International forthcoming)
7. Commercial Products and Services: Raising the Market Research Bar or Much Ado about Nothing? by Steven L. Schooner (Nash & Cibinic Report, V. 32, 2018)
8. The Evolving Role of Non-State Actors in Digital Era Government by Amanda Clarke
9. Canonical Cases and Other Quodlibets: A Response to Professor Fallon by Seth Barrett Tillman (Texas Law Review Online, V. 97, 2018)
10. Demystifying Nationwide Injunctions by Alan M. Trammell

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 Sam Lioi for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back at the start of February with the next edition.