Here is the July 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.

1. Freerolls by Annie Duke & Cass R. Sunstein
2. The Indecisions of 1789: Strategic Ambiguity and the Imaginary Unitary Executive (Part I) by Jed Handelsman Shugerman
3. Are Food Labels Good? By Cass R. Sunstein
4. The Decisions of 1789 Were Non-Unitary: Removal by Judiciary and the Imaginary Unitary Executive (Part II) by Jed Handelsman Shugerman
5. Clairvoyant Regulators, Benighted Judges? Judicial Review of Cost-Benefit Analysis Debated by Bruno Bodart
6. Trade Administration by Kathleen Claussen (Virginia Law Review forthcoming)
7. The Administrative Presidency and the Degradation of the United States Civil Service through Political Time by William G. Resh (Handbook of Public Administration forthcoming)
8. Beyond Algorithms: Regulatory Automation for a Simpler, Less Divided World by Felix Mormann (Boston College Law Review forthcoming)
9. The Combination of Chevron and Political Polarity Will Have Awful Effects by Richard J. Pierce
10. Deregulation and Private Enforcement by Brian T. Fitzpatrick (24 Lewis & Clark Law Review 685 (2020))

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 Morgan Huff for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back in September with the next edition.