Here is the May 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. Urgent Legal Lessons From a Very Fast Problem: COVID-19 by Eric E. Johnson & Theodore C. Bailey (Stanford Law Review Online forthcoming)
2. The Automated Administrative State: A Crisis of Legitimacy by Ryan Calo & Danielle Keats Citron (Emory Law Journal forthcoming)
3. Nondelegation at the Founding by Ilan Wurman (Yale Law Journal forthcoming)
4. Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies by David Freeman Engstrom, Daniel E. Ho, Catherine M. Sharkey & Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Report of the Administrative Conference of the United States, 2020)
5. A Rebuttal to ‘Delegation at the Founding’ by Aaron Gordon
6. The Other Hobbs Act: An Old Leviathan in the Modern Administrative State by Jason Sigalos (54 Georgia Law Review 1095 (2020))
7. Replacing Agency Adjudication with Independent Administrative Courts by Michael B. Rapport (26 George Mason Law Review 1 (2019))
8. We the Shareholders: Government Market Participation in the Postliberal U.S. Political Economy by Jon D. Michaels (120 Columbia Law Review 465 (2020))
9. “Administrative Constitutionalism:” Considering the Role of Agency Decisionmaking in American Constitutional Development by David E. Bernstein (Social Philosophy and Policy forthcoming)
10. Algorithmic Accountability in the Administrative State by David Freeman Engstrom & Daniel E. Ho (Yale Journal on Regulation 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 Morgan Huff for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back in July with the next edition.