K. Sabeel Rahman

Cornell Law School

Professor of Law

  • Cornell Law School

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Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-Century Synthesis

Yale Law Journal, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-657
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 09 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2020
Jedediah S. Britton-Purdy, David Singh Grewal, Amy Kapczynski and K. Sabeel Rahman
Duke University School of Law, Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School and Cornell Law School
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political economy, law and economics, constitutional law

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The New Utilities: Private Power, Social Infrastructure, and the Revival of the Public Utility Concept

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 5 (2018), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 15 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2018
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Private Power, Democracy, Progressive Era, Financial Regulation, Net Neutrality, Internet Platforms, Infrastructure

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Regulating Informational Infrastructure: Internet Platforms as the New Public Utilities

Georgetown Law and Technology Review, Vol. 2:2 (2018)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Aug 2018
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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internet platforms, public utility, anti-monopoly

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The Institutional Design of Community Control

California Law Review, Vol. 108, 2020, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 08 May 2020
Jocelyn Simonson and K. Sabeel Rahman
Brooklyn Law School and Cornell Law School
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local governance; community control; democracy; policing; local economic development

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Constructing and Contesting Structural Inequality

Critical Analysis of Law 5.1 (2018)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 May 2018
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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inequality, structure, law, political economy

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Domination, Democracy, and Constitutional Political Economy in the New Gilded Age: Towards a Fourth Wave of Legal Realism?

Texas Law Review, Vol. 94, 2016
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2016
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Constitutionalism, political economy, inequality, domination, democracy, Progressive Era

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Policymaking as Power-Building

Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 21 Sep 2017
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Power, Democracy, Institutional Design, Administrative Law, Local Government Law, Social Movements, Social Change

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Managerialism, Structuralism, and Moral Judgment: Law, Reform Discourse, and the Pathologies of Financial Reform in Historical Perspective

Prepared for presentation at the Joint Program of the Financial Institutions and European Law Sections, AALS Annual Meeting, New York City, January 3, 2014, for the panel: “Taking Stock of Post-Crisis Reforms: Local, Global, and Comparative Perspectives on Financial Sector Regulation”
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 18 Dec 2013
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Infrastructural Regulation and the New Utilities

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 35, 2018
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Jul 2018
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Constructing Citizenship: Exclusion and Inclusion Through the Governance of Basic Necessities

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 118
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 14 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2019
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Reconstructing the Administrative State in an Era of Economic and Democratic Crisis

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 131, p. 1671, 2018
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Apr 2018
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Administrative law, democracy, inequality, regulation, privatization, participation, governance, exclusion

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Democracy and Productivity: The Glass-Steagall Act and the Shifting Discourse of Financial Regulation

Journal of Policy History, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2012) (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2012
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Envisioning the Regulatory State: Technocracy, Democracy, and Institutional Experimentation in the 2010 Financial Reform and Oil Spill Statutes

Harvard Journal on Legislation, Vol. 48
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2013
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Regulation, Democracy, Financial Regulation, Environmental Regulation

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Shape of Things to Come: The On-Demand Economy and the Normative Stakes of Regulating 21st-Century Capitalism

European Journal of Risk Regulation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 28 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2016
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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On-demand economy, sharing economy, regulation, economic power, social contract, democratic theory

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From Economic Inequality to Economic Freedom: Constitutional Political Economy in the New Gilded Age

Yale Law and Policy Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Inequality, progressivism, social movements, participation, economic freedom

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From Civic Tech to Civic Capacity: The Case of Citizen Audits

Perspectives on Politics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 29 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2017
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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participation, accountability, governance, civic tech, development, regulation

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Community Economic Development Is Access to Justice

Journal of Affordable Housing Volume 27, Number 3 2019, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-19, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 5 for 2019-2020
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 27 May 2019 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2019
Scott L. Cummings, Edward W. De Barbieri, Christyne Vachon, Steven Henry Hobbs, Brian Kingsley Krumm, Anika Singh Lemar, Anthony J. Luppino, Brandon M. Weiss, Robert J. Miller, K. Sabeel Rahman, Alexandra Sickler and Paul R. Tremblay
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, Albany Law School, University of Massachusetts School of Law at Dartmouth, University of Alabama - School of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law, Yale Law School, University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law, American University - Washington College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Cornell Law School, University of North Dakota - School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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community economic development law, access to justice, access to opportunity

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Producing Democratic Vibrancy

Brooklyn Journal of Law and Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Nov 2016
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Democracy, free speech, political inequality, participation

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(Re)Constructing Democracy in Crisis

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 65, 2018
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Oct 2018
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Democracy, backsliding, inequality, exclusion, constitutional political economy

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Re-Imagining Governance in Practice: Benchmarking British Columbia's Citizen Engagement Efforts

Number of pages: 113 Posted: 13 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2018
Andrew Young, Christina Rogawski, K. Sabeel Rahman and Stefaan Verhulst
New York University (NYU) - The GovLab, Independent, Cornell Law School and New York University (NYU)
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ANTI-DOMINATION AND ADMINISTRATION

Forthcoming, NYU Law Review (2025)
Number of pages: 55 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2025
K. Sabeel Rahman
Cornell Law School
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Administration, Administrative Law, Domination, Democracy