Arriving later than normal, here is the August 2025 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. The Chadha Presidency by Josh Chafetz
2. Taming the Shadow Docket by E. Garrett West (Virginia Law Review forthcoming)
3. Small Business Favoritism by Brian D. Feinstein
4. Loper Bright‘s Disingenuity by Cary Coglianese & David Froomkin (University of Pennsylvania Law Review forthcoming)
5. The Practice of Executive Constitutionalism by Conor Clarke & Daniel Epps (Virginia Law Review forthcoming)
6. The Gray Area: Finding Implicit Delegation to Agencies after Loper Bright by Matthew C. Stephenson
7. Bypassing Agency Adjudication by Brian M. Lipshutz (Washington University Law Review forthcoming)
8. Commission Quorums by Nicholas Bednar & Todd Phillips (Stanford Law Review forthcoming)
9. New Challenges for Federal Regulations: Executive Branch Responses by Richard L. Revesz
10. Is Vacatur Unconstitutional? by Jameson Payne & GianCarlo Canaparo

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 October with the next edition.