Aziz Huq

Aziz Z. Huq is an American legal scholar who is currently the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He is a leading scholar in the areas of constitutional law, federal courts, and criminal procedure. His work in constitutional law principally focuses on individual rights and liberties under the U.S. Constitution.[1]

Aziz Z. Huq
Education	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A.) Columbia Law School (J.D.)
Employer	University of Chicago Law School
Known for	Constitutional law and criminal procedure

Life and career

Huq graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. summa cum laude in 1999, majoring in international studies and French. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 2001, he graduated with a J.D. summa cum laude from Columbia Law School, where he was awarded the John Ordronaux Prize for achieving the highest academic average in his graduating class. He served as an essay and review editor on the Columbia Law Review.[1][2]

After graduating from law school, Huq clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. Between 2003 and 2008, he held several positions at the International Crisis Group in Brussels and at the New York University School of Law. He is a counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union.[1]

Huq joined the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School in 2009. In 2016, he was appointed as a tenured professor of law. His research focuses on the interaction of constitutional design with individual rights and liberties. He has co-authored the books Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (2007) and How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2018).[1][2]

References

1. "Aziz Z. Huq | American Constitution Society". www.acslaw.org.
2. "Aziz Z. Huq | University of Chicago Law School". www.law.uchicago.edu.