It’s the last day of November, and I’m just barely getting this getting the October post up here. It’s been a busy semester, though much to be grateful for. Here is the October 2024 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. Resurrecting the Trinity of Legislative Constitutionalism by Beau J. Baumann (Yale Law Journal forthcoming)
2. Anticipating a New Modern Skidmore Standard by Kristin E. Hickman (Duke Law Journal Online forthcoming)
3. In Defense of the Major Questions Doctrine by Louis Capozzi (Notre Dame Law Review forthcoming)
4. How Do AI Companies “Fine-Tune” Policy? Examining Regulatory Capture in AI Governance by Kevin Wei, Carson Ezell, Nick Gabrieli & Chinmay Deshpande
5. Brief of Professor Seth Barrett Tillman and Landmark Legal Foundation as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant Trump’s Motion to Dismiss the Indictment by Seth Barrett Tillman
6. Looking for the Public in Public Law by Nikhil Menezes & David Pozen (University of Chicago Law Review forthcoming)
7. Coping With A Court One Disagrees With by Randy E. Barnett & Josh Blackman
8. Major Questions Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance by Daniel J. Hemel (Southern California Law Review forthcoming)
9. Major Rules in the Courts: An Empirical Study of Challenges to federal Agencies’ Major Rules by Don L. R. Goodson, Libby Dimenstein & Tyler Szeto (Texas A&M Law Review forthcoming)
10. Second-Order Agency by Cass R. Sunstein (Mind & Society 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 Drake Marsaly for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back in the December with the next edition.