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Charles Sabel

Charles Sabel is Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law and Social Science at Columbia Law School. His latest book on climate governance, coauthored with David G. Victor, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in 2021.

Articles

Biden should rejoin the Paris Agreement, but diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.
Charles Sabel, David G. Victor

Forums

Diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.

David G. Victor, Charles Sabel

Even as globalization makes us complicit in terrible abuses of workers, it opens up new possibilities for public action.

Charles Sabel, Dara O’Rourke, Archon Fung

The United States is in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of its environmental regulation, one that is as improbable as it is unremarked.

Bradley Karkkainen, Archon Fung, Charles Sabel

Forum Responses

In these times especially, both politics and interests are plastic. Experimentalism seeks to make this fact both politically visible and politically productive.
David G. Victor, Charles Sabel
Ratcheting Labor Standards (RLS) is a proposal about how to achieve worker rights. It relies on methods of monitoring and enforcement that seem dubious from the standpoint of centralized rule-making. So it...
Charles Sabel, Dara O’Rourke, Archon Fung
In “Beyond Backyard Environmentalism,” we argue that a new form of decentralized but coordinated environmental regulation is successfully addressing a surprisingly broad range of apparently intractable problems. Even more improbably, its success...
Bradley Karkkainen, Archon Fung, Charles Sabel

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