Here is the September 2015 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 William Funk. Here’s the top ten:

1. Prosecutorial Constitutionalism by Eric S. Fish

2. Is the Chief Justice a Tax Lawyer? by Stephanie R. Hoffer and Christopher J. Walker (Pepperdine Law Review forthcoming)

3. The Volcker Rule as Structural Law: Implications for Cost-Benefit Analysis and Administrative Law by John C. Coates, IV

4. Enforcement Discretion at the SEC by David T. Zaring (Texas Law Review forthcoming)

5. Federal Agencies in the Legislative Process: Technical Assistance in Statutory Drafting by Christopher J. Walker (Draft Report for Administrative Conference of the United States)

6. The President and Immigration Law Redux by Adam B. Cox and Cristina Rodriguez (Yale Law Journal forthcoming)

7. Democratic Rulemaking by John M. de Figueiredo and Edward Stiglitz (Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics forthcoming)

8. Procedural Due Process Liberty Interests by Ann Woolhandler

9. Of Constitutional Custodians and Regulatory Rivals: An Account of the Old and New Separation of Powers by Jon D. Michaels (New York University Law Review forthcoming 2016)

10. Thin Rationality Review by Jacob E. Gersen and Adrian Vermeule

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 Molly Werhan for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back at the start of November with the next edition.

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