Aziz Huq

Aziz Huq’s teaching and research interests include constitutional law, national security law, and federal courts.

Mr. Huq received his J.D. From Columbia Law School in 2001. He came to the Law School in 2009 after clerking for Judge Robert D. Sack of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States. Until 2009, he directed the liberty and national security project at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law where he also taught as an adjunct professor of law.He represented “enemy combatant” detainees in litigation before the U.S. federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court, and has participated in several election law cases before the Court. As a consultant senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, he has studied and written about legal and constitutional reform in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka.