It’s a new year, and we have lots of new papers in administrative law to read! And we should expect many more with the February law review submission cycle just starting. Here is the January 2023 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. The Roberts Court’s Functionalist Turn in Administrative Law by Thomas Koenig & Ben Pontz (46 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy forthcoming)
2. The Roberts Court’s Structural Incrementalism by Kristin E. Hickman (136 Harvard Law Review Forum 75 (2022))
3. Illiberalism and Administrative Government by Jeremy Kessler, in Law and Illiberalism (Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas & Martha Merrill Umphrey eds., U. Mass. Press, 2022))
4. Against Anti-Tax Exceptionalism by David A. Weisbach
5. The Coming Onslaught of ‘Algorithmic Fairness’ Regulations by Neil Chilson & Adam Thierer (Regulatory Transparency Project of the Federalist Society (2022))
6. Arthrex and the Politics of Patents by Tejas N. Narechania (12 California Law Review Online 65 (2022))
7. Applying the Regulatory Report Card to Tax Regulations by Bridget C.E. Dooling & Kristin E. Hickman (Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis forthcoming)
8. Statutory Interpretation and Agency Disgorgement Power by Caprice L. Roberts (96 St. John’s Law Review forthcoming)
9. Regulatory Enforcement Manuals by Jordan Perkins (Final Report for the Administrative Conference of the United States, Dec. 9, 2022)
10. Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Kim Kardashian and the ‘Major Questions Doctrine’ by Jerry Markham (14 William & Mary Business 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 Neena Menon for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back in March with the next edition.