Here is the December 2019 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. AI in Adjudication and Administration: A Status Report on Governmental Use of Algorithmic Tools in the United States by Cary Coglianese & Lavi Ben Dor
2. In Search of Prerogative by Ilan Wurman
3. Interrogating the Historical Basis for a Unitary Executive by Daniel D. Birk
4. Maximin by Cass R. Sunstein
5. Faithful Execution: Where Administrative Law Meets the Constitution by Evan D. Bernick (108 Georgetown Law Journal 1 (2019))
6. Surges and Delays in Mass Adjudication by Adam S. Zimmerman (53 Georgia Law Review 1335 (2019))
7. Delegation and Interpretive Discretion: Gundy, Kisor, and the Formation and Future of Administrative Law by Aditya Bamzai (133 Harvard Law Review 164 (2019))
8. Codifying the Cost-Benefit State by Brian Mannix & Bridget C.E. Dooling
9. Human Capital and Administrative Burden: The Role of Cognitive Resources in Citizen-State Interactions by Julian Christensen, Lene Aarøe, Martin Bækgaard, Pamela Herd & Donald P. Moynihan (Public Administration Review forthcoming)
10. The Choice Between Single Director Agencies and Multimember Commissions by Ganesh Sitaraman & Ariel Dobkin (71 Administrative Law Review 719 (2019))

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.