Aziz Rana

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Aziz Rana is an American legal scholar and author who currently serves as Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law at Cornell University specializing in American constitutional law.

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Education

Rana received his A.B from Harvard College and his juris doctor from Yale Law School. He returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. in political science, where his dissertation was awarded the Charles Sumner Prize. [1]

Work

Rana is best known for his 2010 book The Two Faces of American Freedom, a work based on his PhD thesis which synthesized "American legal and political history from the outset of English colonizing until the present." [2]

He also sits on the Council on Foreign Relations, is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and an editorial board member of both Dissent magazine and Just Security. [3]

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References

  1. Aziz F. Rana. Cornell Law School. Retrieved from https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/aziz-rana/. Accessed May 19th, 2022
  2. Tomlins, Christopher. "Review of The Two Faces of American Freedom." H-Net. Retrieved from https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32249. Accessed May 19th, 2022.
  3. Aziz F. Rana. Cornell Law School. Retrieved from https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/aziz-rana/. Accessed May 19th, 2022