There have been quite a few really terrific new administrative law papers posted to SSRN over the last few months, adding to my summer reading list. My SSRN reading list posts capture some of them, but my colleague Dan Deacon also features some in more depth each month as part of his Ad Law Reading Room series. Here is the May 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. Appropriations Presidentialism by Zachary Price, Eloise Pasachoff & Matthew B. Lawrence (Georgetown Law Journal Online forthcoming)
2. Revisiting the Scope of Constitutional Birthright Citizenship by Samuel Estreicher & Rudra Reddy
3. The Supreme Court’s Fed Carveout: An Initial Assessment by Lev Menand
4. The Original FTC by Eli Nachmany (Alabama Law Review forthcoming)
5. Legalistic Noncompliance by Daniel T. Deacon & Leah M. Litman
6. Some Personal Reflections on the Recent Litigation Involving Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment by Seth Barrett Tillman
7. Presidential Administration After Arthrex by Noah A. Rosenblum & Roderick M. Hills, Jr.
8. Amicus in Wilcox v. Trump on Presidential Removal and Unitary Executive Theorists’ Errors by Jed H. Shugerman
9. Originalism, the Administrative State, and the Clash of Political Theories by J. Joel Alicea
10. Pictures of a Revolution: Administrative Law in a Time of Change by Shalev Gad Roisman & Oren Tamir  (123 Michigan Law Review 1105 (2025))

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 July with the next edition.