Here is the March 2017 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. I wish I had more time comment, as this month has a particularly strong set of papers. Here’s the list:

1. The Endgame of Administrative Law: Governmental Disobedience and the Judicial Contempt Power by Nicholas Parrillo (Harvard Law Review forthcoming)

2. Who are “Officers of the United States” by Jennifer L. Mascott (Stanford Law Review forthcoming)

3. Freedom of Information Beyond the Freedom of Information Act by David Pozen (University of Pennsylvania Law Review forthcoming)

4. Rise of the Digital Regulator by Rory Van Loo (66 Duke Law Journal 1267 (2017))

5. Government Lawyers in the Trump Administration by W. Bradley Wendel

6. Moral Commitments in Cost-Benefit Analysis by Eric Posner & Cass Sunstein

7. Lions Under the Bureaucracy: Review of Adrian Vermeule, ‘Law’s Abnegation: From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State’ by Evan Bernick (Federalist Society Review forthcoming)

8. Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Judicial Role by Jonathan Masur and Eric Posner (University of Chicago Law Review forthcoming)

9. Regulating by Robot: Administrative Decision Making in the Machine-Learning Era by Cary Coglianese & David Lehr (Georgetown Law Journal forthcoming)

10. The Dealmaking State: Executive Power in the Trump Administration by Steven Davidoff Solomon & David Zaring

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 Kaile Sepnafski for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back at the start of May with the next edition.