LPE 101: LRS

NYU Law LPEA is inviting K. Sabeel Rahman for a 1 hour lecture around alternative visions of the administrative state. K. Sabeel Rahman is the co-founder and co-chair of the Law and Political Economy Project, the former president of the think tank Demos, and the author of the books Democracy against Domination and Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis (co-authored by Hollie Russon Gilman).

We are at a critical moment where questions of administration, governance, and democratic authority are front and center. The administrative state is central to meeting challenges such as climate change, the care crisis, and requires robust administrative power for the implementation of a more egalitarian political economy. 

Historically, administrative law has often run roughshod over communities of color and other marginalized groups. This is partly due to the apolitical, proceduralist frame of much of administrative law discourse and partly because of the ways in which administrative law has been siloed from discussions of power, race, gender, and social movements. In recent years, scholarship has started to break down these silos, for example, through historical approaches to ‘administrative constitutionalism’ and renewed interest in law and political economy. This lecture will build on these foundations to tackle fundamental questions that are not answered in our first year Legislation and Regulation Curriculum.