K. Sabeel Rahman is an American legal scholar, author, and policy advisor who currently serves as Senior Counselor in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the

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. He joined the Biden Administration from

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, a liberal

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he served as president of from 2018 to 2021.

Education

Rahman studied at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

, where he received his

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(B.A.),

Juris Doctor The Juris Doctor (J.D. or JD), also known as Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D., JD, D.Jur., or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice l ...

(J.D.), and Ph.D degree in

political theory Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

. Additionally, he attended

Pembroke College, Oxford Pembroke College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is located at Pembroke Square, Oxford. The college was founded in 1624 by King James I of England, using in part the endowment of merchant Thomas Tesdale, and was named aft ...

as a

Rhodes Scholar The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

, where he studied both law and economic development.

Career

During his career, he has held fellowships at both New America and the Roosevelt Institute, and notably served as co-chair of the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project. Rahman once served as an analyst within OIRA during the Obama Administration, and would return to the office as a Senior Counselor under President Joe Biden. In

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, he served as a special advisor for economic development from 2014 to 2015 and has also served on the city's Rent Guidelines Board. Rahman served as an associate professor of law at

Brooklyn Law School Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is a private law school in New York City. Founded in 1901, it has approximately 1,100 students. Brooklyn Law School's faculty includes 60 full-time faculty, 15 emeriti faculty, and a number of adjunct faculty. Brookly ...

from 2015 to 2019, and is currently on leave from the institution. The bulk of Rahman's work has focused on

regulatory Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. Fo ...

and administrative law, taking a neorepublican perspective on power and

participatory democracy Participatory democracy, participant democracy or participative democracy is a form of government in which citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies that affect their lives, rather than through elected rep ...

inspired by the work of

John Dewey John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the f ...

and

Louis Brandeis Louis Dembitz Brandeis (; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. Starting in 1890, he helped develop the "right to privacy" concept ...

.Shenk, Timothy. (November 30th, 2016). Booked: The End of Managerial Liberalism, with K. Sabeel Rahman. Dissent Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/booked-end-managerial-liberalism-k-sabeel-rahman. Accessed on March 2nd, 2021.

Bibliography

*Rahman, K. Sabeel. (2016). ''Democracy Against Domination''. Oxford University Press. *Rahman, K. Sabeel and Russon Gillman, Holly. (2019). ''Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis''. Cambridge University Press. *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.

References

External links

K. Sabeel Rahman Homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahman, K. Sabeel 1983 births American people of Bangladeshi descent American Rhodes Scholars Biden administration personnel Harvard Law School alumni Living people