K. Sabeel Rahman

Congrats to our editorial board members Aziz Rana and Luke Herrine on being named 2025 Freedom Scholars 🥳🥳

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"By excluding agencies’ execution of presidential immigration from the constraints of administrative law, the Court has created more leeway for an aggrandized Executive—notably, one that is transgressing lawful limits to immigration enforcement."

The fight building and dismantling state capacity is a fight over democratic freedom and equality.

My latest paper on the kind of state emerging from this moment - and a vision for freedom and governance that should shape an alternative progressive state to come

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Save the Date: the inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy conference will be taking place *February 5-7, 2026* at the University of Richmond School of Law. And keep an eye out for the CFP this later this summer!

Friends - important update on the new LPE Association conference! Moved to Feb 5-7, which will give us all a little more time to plan. Get those paper and panel ideas going, friends, and see you in Richmond!

LPE friends, big announcement! 🔥🔥 This Sept, the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association! Been working hard on this, with an amazing crowd of LPE fac and groups - more here: law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau....

Save the date for the inaugural Law and Political Economy Association conference on September 11-13, 2025 at the University of Richmond School of Law!

Thread: A while back I asked people how we should think about DOGE as something other than a government commission, since I think we need a better nomenclature and reference points. This offers some good insights.

Excited and honored to be taking the helm at Roosevelt Institute. Our economy should work for the many, not just the few. The Roosevelt community has been instrumental in the fight for shared prosperity, and I can't wait to jump back in in this new capacity. Let's get to work!

Quote graphic with an excerpt from Elizabeth Wilkins being named the next President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute.

We are thrilled to welcome @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social as Roosevelt’s next president and CEO. 🎉

Her accomplished leadership in organizing, law & government service make her the right leader to champion Roosevelt’s vision of a better economy & democracy. rooseveltinstitute.org/press-releas...

The Law & Political Economy Starter Pack is now in 2 parts

I had to break the LPE starter pack into 2 EQUAL parts because we exceeded 150, so they are:
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K. Sabeel Rahman, JD | Freedom Scholar | Marguerite Casey Foundation Marguerite Casey Foundation named K. Sabeel Rahman, JD among the 2024 Freedom Scholars advancing racial and economic justice.

Very grateful to be a part of the Marguerite Casey Foundation’s Freedom Scholars court. Thrilled to be in community with such an inspiring group of scholars, thinkers, and activists!

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After Chevron: Political Economy and the Future of the Administrative State The Supreme Court’s recent administrative law decisions represent a fundamental shift in both political and economic power. In response, we must not settle for simply restoring the status quo ante.

Today, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social explains how the Supreme Court's recent administrative law decisions represent a fundamental shift in political and economic power, and sets out an alternative vision for the future of the administrative state.

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How Do We Build the Government We Need? - Roosevelt Institute In this week's Roosevelt Rundown: Building, Dismantling, and Reimagining the State, The Exploitative Business of Bank Fees, New Webinar: Black Perspectives on Tax Reform, and What We're Reading.

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✅ NEW report ▶️ @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social an explores building, dismantling & reimagining the state for an inclusive democracy.
✅ NEW research ▶️ How free #publicbanking options can provide vital financial access.

The weekly #RooseveltRundown ⬇️ rooseveltinstitute.org/2024/06/06/h...

NEW 📄 We deserve a state with the capacity to empower, protect, and respond—not exclude, dominate, and extract.

@ksabeelrahman.bsky.social argues that achieving a just, inclusive democracy and economy requires actively building and reimagining state capacity: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Great write-up of great @ispsyale.bsky.social event on democratizing the U.S. administrative state with
@awhf.bsky.social, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social and Cristina Rodriguez.

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Psyched to be moderating the next installment in the @lpenyc.bsky.social New School night school event on February 8!!

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This is going to be a great (in-person) event! Each of the amazing panelists will make available a work-in-progress on revitalizing the administrative state. @awhf.bsky.social; @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social; @ispsyale.bsky.social; @cape-team.bsky.social

Open Course: What To Do About the Courts The Law and Political Economy Project and the People's Parity Project are teaming up to offer an open course/reading group on the urgent question of what to do about the courts in our current…

The LPE Project is delighted to announce that we are teaming up with @peoplesparity.bsky.social to offer an open course/reading group (for EVERYONE not just law students/profs) on one of the most urgent political questions of our time: WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COURTS?!

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Saving Bidenomics - Boston Review Biden’s industrial policy program promises a massive shift from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Can it deliver inclusive gains in time?

"While investing public dollars into economic transformation is no doubt a major step forward, those dollars ought also to go into creating specifically public institutions of governance."

—K. Sabeel Rahman on the debates about how to implement Biden's industrial policy program:

It has been the greatest honor of my career to write a Foreword for the Harv Law Rev. I am grateful to be able to tell this story and tell it from the heart in such a prominent forum. As always, I dream of a day when words can change minds and hearts—and worlds: harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...

Yup here it is!

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In response to President Biden's Environmental Justice Executive Order, a new White House Request for Information is out to inform development of a government-wide Environmental Justice Science, Data, and Research Plan. Share input by December 12 www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Great piece!!

What Tuberville is doing is part of the bigger GOP playbook to commandeer our civilian and military bureaucracy and wield them as tools of authoritarianism. Really scary stuff. newrepublic.com/article/1752...

Trump Judges Have a New Strategy for Gutting Minority Rights Can a state prohibit gay people from adopting children or stop immigrants from purchasing property?

Trump judges are learning to love zombie precedent—old, repudiated decisions that greenlit overt sexism, homophobia, and white supremacy. And some, like Barbara Lagoa, are going out of their way to signal their desire to revive the worst of them. t.co/bKW9LoW5KF

| Knight First Amendment Institute

We're looking for someone exceptional who can help us build out a policy program on free speech & new tech. This won't look like other programs--it will reflect @knightcolumbia.org's unique mandate, culture, and resources. Please send the best people our way.

Opinion | Our Economy Thrives on Bad Feelings Only by reckoning with how deep manufactured insecurity runs will it become possible to envision something different.

First excerpt from my new book:

“If inequality can be captured in statistics, insecurity requires talking about feelings: It is, to borrow a phrase from feminism, personal as well as political.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/opinion/inequality-insecurity-economic-wealth.html?smid=tw-share

Hi Bluesky! I am still learning how this place works, but the in the meantime... I wrote a book! It's out today, and I'm really excited to be in conversation with people I admire at these events (w/more to come). Please join, & learn more here - https://thenewpress.com/books/radical-acts-of-justice