Aziz Z. Huq is an American legal scholar who is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the

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. He is a 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

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Life and career

Huq graduated from the

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with a

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''summa cum laude'' in 1996, majoring in international studies and French. He was a member of

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. In 2001, he graduated with a J.D. ''summa cum laude'' from

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, 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 ''

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''. 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

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on the

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. Between 2003 and 2008, he held several positions at the

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and at the

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. He is a counsel at the

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. Huq joined the faculty at the

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), ''How to Save a Constitutional Democracy'' (2018) (with his colleague,

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), and ''wrote The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies (2021)''. Huq also regularly writes

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for Politico, the Washington Post, and other popular outlets. Huq is one of the most cited active scholars of

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in the

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