Aziz Huq

Aziz Z. Huq is a scholar of US and comparative constitutional law with interests in democratic backsliding and AI regulation. His scholarship is published in several books and in leading law, social-science, and political-science journals. He has also written for the London Review of Books, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and many other non-specialist publications. He has an active pro bono practice, and is on the board of the Seminary Coop and the ACLU of Illinois.

Before joining the Law School faculty, Professor Huq was counsel and then director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Project, litigating cases in both the US Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court. As a Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group, he researched and wrote on constitutional design and implementation in Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka. He was a law clerk for Judge Robert D. Sack of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is also a 1996 summa cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a 2001 graduate of Columbia Law School where he was awarded the John Ordronaux Prize (for the student graduating first in their class).