K. Sabeel Rahman

K. Sabeel Rahman is an American professor and author who currently works as a professor of law at Cornell Law School. He served an associate administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2021 to 2023. ^{[1] [2] [3]} Prior to joining the Biden administration, he served as president of the liberal think tank Demos from 2018 to 2021. ^[4]

Education

Rahman studied at Harvard University, where he received his bachelor's degree (B.A.), Juris Doctor (J.D.), and Ph.D degree in political theory. Additionally, he attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he studied both law and economic development. ^{[5] [6]}

Career

During his career, he has held fellowships at both New America and the Roosevelt Institute and served as co-chair of the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project. Rahman once served as an analyst within the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs during the Obama administration, and he returned to the office as a senior counselor under President Joe Biden. ^[1] He was a special advisor for economic development in New York City from 2014 to 2015 and served on the city's Rent Guidelines Board. ^[5]

Rahman served as an associate professor of law at Brooklyn Law School from 2015 to 2019, and is currently on leave from the institution. ^[7] The bulk of Rahman's work has focused on regulatory and administrative law, taking a neorepublican perspective on power and participatory democracy inspired by the work of John Dewey and Louis Brandeis. ^{[8] [9]}

Rahman is married to Noorain Khan, a director with the non-profit Ford Foundation. ^[10]

Bibliography

• Rahman, K. Sabeel. (2016). Democracy Against Domination. Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780190468538 ^{[11] [12] [13] [14]}
• Rahman, K. Sabeel and Russon Gillman, Holly. (2019). Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9781108431842
• Michael Hardt, Bonnie Honig, Elaine Kamarck, K. Sabeel Rahman, Tracey Meares, Marshall Steinbaum. (2019). The President's House Is Empty: Losing and Gaining Public Goods. MIT Press. ISBN   9781946511294

References

1. Meyers, David (January 27, 2021). "Biden taps second voting rights leader to join administration". The Fulcrum . Retrieved August 27, 2021.
2. "K. Sabeel Rahman". Demos . 18 January 2021. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
3. Rozen, Courtney (31 August 2022). "Biden Names K. Sabeel Rahman to Key Regulatory Post in White House". Bloomberg.
4. Demos. "Demos to Launch Search for President Following Rahman Appointment to Biden Administration". PR Newswire (Press release). Retrieved August 27, 2021.
5. "K. Sabeel Rahman". New America . Retrieved August 27, 2021.
6. "About". K. Sabeel Rahman. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
7. "K. Sabeel Rahman". Brooklyn Law School . Retrieved March 2, 2021.
8. "K. Sabeel Rahman". Law and Political Economy Project . Retrieved March 2, 2021.
9. Shenk, Timothy (November 30, 2016). "Booked: The End of Managerial Liberalism, with K. Sabeel Rahman". Dissent Magazine (Interview). Retrieved March 2, 2021.
10. Joutz, Marguerite (October 12, 2018). "How Noorain Khan, of the Ford Foundation, Spends Her Sundays". The New York Times.
11. Jackson, Jeff (2017). "What Is Democratic in an Unequal Society?". Political Theory. 45 (6): 853–862. doi:10.1177/0090591717725309. JSTOR   26419450. S2CID   149223874.
12. McGravey, Kevin (2017). "Review of Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy; Democracy Against Domination, Rahman K. Sabeel". Perspectives on Politics. 15 (4): 1134–1136. doi:10.1017/S1537592717002717. JSTOR   26615300. S2CID   149329045.
13. Roussin, Juliette (2018). "Review of Democracy Against Domination, Rahman K. Sabeel". Revue française de science politique. 68 (1): 163–164. ISSN   0035-2950. JSTOR   26535958.
14. Condon, Meghan (Fall 2018). "Democracy Against Domination by K. Sabeel Rahman". Political Science Quarterly (Book review). 133 (3): 582–584. doi:10.1002/polq.12809. S2CID   158707195.

External links

• K. Sabeel Rahman Homepage