Just barely getting this up in February, but here is the January 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. On the Senate’s Purported Constitutional Duty to Meaningfully Consider Presidential Nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States: A Response to Chief Judge Peter J. Eckerstrom by Seth Barrett Tillman (University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online, forthcoming)
2. Sludge and Ordeals by Cass R. Sunstein (Duke Law Journal forthcoming)
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. Statutory Interpretation, Administrative Deference, and the Law of Stare Decisis by Randy J. Kozel (Texas Law Review forthcoming)
7. FVRA Cannot Be Used to Appoint an Acting Attorney General by Stephen Migala
8. Regulatory Review in Anti-Regulatory Times by Daniel A. Farber
9. Agency Pragmatism in Addressing Law’s Failure: The Curious Case of Federal ‘Deemed Approvals’ of Tribal-State Gaming Compacts by Kevin K. Washburn (Michigan Journal of Law Reform, V. 52, 2018)
10. Digital Market Perfection by Rory Van Loo (Michigan 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 March with the next edition.