On the final day in November, I’m finally posting the October 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. Hayekian Behavioral Economics by Cass R. Sunstein
2. Textualism and the Duck-Rabbit Illusion by Cass R. Sunstein
3. Unrules by Cary Coglianese, Gabriel Scheffler & Daniel Walters (Stanford Law Review forthcoming)
4. Brand Name or Equal: Without “Equal,” It’s Not Competitive by Steven L. Schooner (34 Nash & Cibinic Report ¶ 52 (2020))
5. New Environmental Crimes Project Data Shows That Pollution Prosecutions Plummeted During the First Two Years of the Trump Administration by David M. Uhlmann (Environmental Crimes Project Report, 2020)
6. Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and its Implications for Contemporary Debates by Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar & Matthew Stephenson
7. Chief Justice Roberts Gave Us a Roadmap for a Way Forward on DACA by Geoffrey A. Hoffman
8. U.S. Administrative Law by Jud Mathews (open-source casebook)
9. How Chevron Deference Fits Into Article III by Kent H. Barnett (George Washington Law Review forthcoming))
10. Retroactivity and Appointments by Andrew C. Michaels (Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 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 December with the next edition.