She is the author of Identity, Crime, and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England (2004). Her new book, Britain and its Internal Others: Under Rule of Law (Manchester University Press, forthcoming) examines the intersection of metropole and colony through a series of legal events in London's courtrooms and streets. Rabin's analysis demonstrates how the law was challenged, debated, made, and remade in the second half of the eighteenth century. At the heart of this study is the unstable relationship between ideals and practices of the 'rule of law' in Britain and in its Empire.