Aziz Huq

Before joining the Brennan Center, Aziz Huq clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and for Judge Robert D. Sack of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996. In 2001, he graduated summa cum laude from Columbia Law School, where he was awarded the John Ordonneux Prize. While at the Law School, he was Essay and Review Editor of the Columbia Law Review.

Since 1998, Mr. Huq was worked on human rights issues overseas, including in Guatemala and Cambodia. In 2002, he joined International Crisis Group on a Post-Graduate Human Rights Fellowship from Columbia Law School, and has since worked as an analyst in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal studying the development of legal institutions and new constitutions.

Currently

  • Justice Delayed and Denied at Guantanámo

    September 29, 2008

    The Supreme Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush affirmed prisoners' right to habeas corpus, but the government is stalling; and such delays may keep detainees imprisoned indefinitely.

  • FBI Seeks Sweeping New Powers

    August 22, 2008

    Attorney General Michael Mukasey is poised to implement new rules that will create a new surveillance state.

  • Surveillance Bill: The Worst of All Worlds

    June 20, 2008

    House Democrats capitulate to pass a surveillance bill that further compromises our privacy and limits accountability of the government and telecoms. Will the Senate fight back?

  • War of Words

    May 22, 2008

    An argument over how US officials should speak about terrorism bodes ill for this political season.

  • After Gitmo

    May 13, 2008

    America's legal and moral responsibility to innocent detainees is not more imprisonment, but a new life in the United States.

  • Fitna's Hateful Crusade

    April 7, 2008

    The new film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders is the latest in a series of stunts aimed at humiliating and scapegoating Muslims.

  • Undoing the Bush Legacy

    February 8, 2008

    No matter who becomes the next President, the clammy fingers of Bush and Cheney will be wrapped around vital national policies. It's up to Congress to break their grip.

2007

  • Another Death in Rawalpindi

    December 27, 2007

    The killing of Benazir Bhutto echoes Pakistan's troubled history, portends more violence and flags a proud country's collapse into chaos. It also signals the manifest bankruptcy of the Bush Administration's anti-terrorism.

  • Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels

    December 11, 2007

    CIA, Department of Justice, White House--and members of Congress--ran through every legal and procedural red light designed to prevent criminal conduct and its cover-up.

  • Protecting the Wiretappers

    September 27, 2007

    Telecommunications giants already are shielded from lawsuits for future warrantless spying; now the White House seeks to absolve them of past misdeeds.

  • Justice Denied

    August 27, 2007

    Alberto Gonzales leaves office with the Justice Department tarnished, the rule of law debased and our civil liberties significantly eroded. It now falls to Congress--and the next President--to repair the damage he's done.

  • Data-Mining Our Liberties

    August 7, 2007

    Despite blistering criticism of warrantless surveillance, the Bush Administration rammed a law through Congress that authorizes spying on our calls and e-mails. How did they get away with it?

  • Dangerous Privilege

    July 26, 2007

    We need a law to define and limit the President's claim of executive privilege, and should set a process for Congress to overcome it.

  • Cheney and the Constitution

    June 26, 2007

    If you think the Vice President's abuse of power is scary now, consider what might happen when he counts Electoral College votes in a divisive 2008 election.

  • A White House Plan to Erode Our Liberties

    June 8, 2007

    Beyond its power to jail terror detainees, the Military Commissions Act is the spearhead of a more sustained and long-term incursion on all our civil liberties. It must be rolled back.

  • Gitmo Justice

    April 4, 2007

    David Hicks pleads guilty and goes free, while the Supreme Court denies nearly 400 other terror suspects their day in court. This is justice?

  • Framing the Presidency

    February 19, 2007

    What kind of executive branch of government did the framers of the Constitution have in mind? Not the runaway powers now claimed by the Bush Administration.

2006

  • Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Guidepost or Relic?

    July 14, 2006

    As the Bush Administration continues to exercise an inordinate amount of power, will the Supreme Court's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ruling become a guidepost for future government or a last lonely relic of a proud lost era?

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