Here is the February 2020 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. Lots of great scholarship for us to read during these social-distancing days!

1. Delegation at the Founding by Julian Davis Mortenson & Nicholas Bagley (Columbia Law Review forthcoming)
2. Presidential Review: The President’s Statutory Authority Over Independent Agencies by Cass R. Sunstein & Adrian Vermeule (Georgetown Law Journal forthcoming)
3. Why Financial Regulation Keeps Falling Short by Dan Awrey and Kathryn Judge
4. The New Gatekeepers: Private Firms as Public Enforcers by Rory Van Loo (Virginia Law Review forthcoming)
5. Dimensions of Delegation by Cary Coglianese (167 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1849 (2019))
6. A Note on Human Welfare and the Administrative State by Cass R. Sunstein
7. Internalities, Externalities, and Fuel Economy by Cass R. Sunstein (forthcoming essay for NYU Law School tribute symposium on Richard Stewart)
8. Regulating Impartiality in Agency Adjudication by Kent H. Barnett (Duke Law Journal forthcoming)
9. Actings by Anne Joseph O’Connell (Columbia Law Review forthcoming)
10. Eight Futures of the Nondelegation Doctrine by Andrew Coan (Wisconsin Law Review 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 Sam Lioi for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back at the start of April with the next edition.