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Professor Aziz Z. Huq was named to Project Syndicate’s list of Forward Thinkers, recognizing emerging intellectual innovators.
Editor’s Note: This story is part of an occasional series on research projects currently in the works at the Law School.
Securing a clerkship at the US Supreme Court is one of the most prestigious opportunities available to a recent law school graduate. This year, University of Chicago Law School alumni have achieved a remarkable milestone: our graduates will clerk for seven of the Court’s nine justices during the October 2025–26 Term.
For the first time in more than thirty years, a Law School team has qualified for the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, one of the largest and most competitive moot court contests in the world.
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Most of what lawyers learn about the “Interbellum Constitution”–i.e., constitutional law between the end of the War of 1812 and the beginning of the Civil War—comes from the handful of major Supreme Court decisions of that era that law schools still teach as part of the required first-year curriculum. McCulloch v. Maryland for the supremacy of the federal government vis-à-vis the states; Gibbons v.
Congress in December 2022 enacted a sweeping new transparency statute for international agreements made by the executive branch.
Authoritarian regimes sometimes take power all at once – but other times they chip away at societal norms bit by bit. Aziz Huq teaches law at the University of Chicago, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss specifically how the Nazis rose to power and began to persecute Jews in part because the rest of German society just went about its business without objection. His article published in The Atlantic is “America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State.”
