January has gone by quickly, but here is the December 2023 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. Knightian Uncertainty by Cass R. Sunstein
2. The Deference Dilemma by Adrian Vermeule (George Mason Law Review forthcoming)
3. On Liberalism by Cass R. Sunstein
4. Juristocracy and Administrative Governance: From Benzene to Climate by Rachel Rothschild
5. Chevron and Stare Decisis by Kent Barnett & Christopher J. Walker (George Mason Law Review forthcoming)
6. Barbies, Ties, and High Heels: Goods That People Buy But Wish Did Not Exist by Cass R. Sunstein
7. Administrative Law Scholars Amici Brief: SEC v. Coinbase, 1:23-cv-04738-KPF (SDNY, Oct. 10, 2023) by Beau J. Baumann & Todd Phillips
8. Management-Based Oversight of the Automated State: Emerging Standards for AI Impact Assessment and Auditing in the Public Sector by Cary Coglianese & Nabil Shaikh (Emad Yaghmaei, et al., eds., Global Perspectives on AI Impact Assessment (Oxford University Press forthcoming))
9. Letter of 123 Patent Professionals and PTAAARMIGAN to Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) re information collection DOCX Submission Requirements (Oct. 27, 2023) by David Boundy
10. The Color of Social Security: Race and Unequal Protection in the Crown Jewel of the American Welfare State by Jon C. Dubin (Stanford Law and Policy Review 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 Neena Menon for helping put together this monthly post. I’ll report back in the February with the next edition.