Aziz Z. Huq is an American legal scholar who is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at theUniversity of Chicago Law School. 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 theU.S. Constitution.^[1]

Huq graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with aB.A.summa cum laude in 1996, majoring in international studies and French. He was a member ofPhi Beta Kappa. In 2001, he graduated with aJ.D.summa cum laude fromColumbia 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 theColumbia Law Review.^[1][2]

After graduating from law school, Huq clerked for JudgeRobert D. Sack on theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburg on theU.S. Supreme Court. Between 2003 and 2008, he held several positions at theInternational Crisis Group inBrussels and at theNew York University School of Law. He is a counsel at theAmerican Civil Liberties Union.^[1]

Huq joined the faculty at theUniversity 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 booksUnchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (2007),How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2018) (with his colleague,Tom Ginsburg), andwrote The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies (2021).^[1][2] Huq also regularly writesOp-Eds for Politico, the Washington Post, and other popular outlets.^[2] Huq is one of the most cited active scholars ofconstitutional law in theUnited States.^[3]

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