Here is the February 2022 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. This is a really great group of papers. I look forward to reading them as well as seeing what others have been writing as they post drafts of papers placed during the spring law review submissions cycle.

1. The Separation-of-Powers Counterrevolution by Nikolas Bowie & Daphna Renan (Yale Law Journal forthcoming)
2. Is the President an ‘Officer of the United States’ for Purposes of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment? by Seth Barrett Tillman & Josh Blackman (15 New York University Journal of Law & Liberty 1 (2021))
3. Democratizing Behavioral Economics by Zachary D. Liscow & Daniel Markovits
4. Automated Government for Vulnerable Citizens: Intermediating Rights by Sofia Ranchordas & Luisa Scarcella (William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal forthcoming)
5. Public Rights and Taxation: A Brief Response to Professor Parrillo by Ann Woolhandler
6. Submerged Independent Agencies by Brian D. Feinstein & Jennifer Nou (University of Pennsylvania Law Review forthcoming)
7. The Uncertain Foundations of Public Law Theory by Emad H. Atiq & Jud Mathews (Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy forthcoming)
8. Automating FDA Regulation by Mason Marks (Duke Law Journal forthcoming)
9. The Workforce Capacity of the United States Bureaucracy, 1998-2020 by Nicholas Bednar
10. Judicial Review of Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Change Lawsuits: Deferential and Nondeferential Evaluation of Agency Factual and Policy Determinations by Robert L. Glicksman, Daniel Kim & Keziah Groth-Tuft (Harvard Environmental 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 Shea Daley for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back in April with the next edition.