Paul Rosenzweig '86 and Aziz Huq, "A Conversation on the NSA Surveillance Programs"

Paul Rosenzweig is a cum laude graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. He received his master’s degree in chemical oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and his bachelor of arts degree from Haverford College. From 2002 to 2005, Rosenzweig was senior legal research fellow in Heritage’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, where his specialties included civil liberties, national security and criminal law. He then served as deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Department of Homeland Security and as acting assistant secretary for international affairs. In four years at DHS, he developed policy, strategic plans and global approaches to homeland security, ranging from immigration and border security to avian flu and international rules for data protection. He became a visiting fellow at Heritage in 2010. He is a senior editor for Journal of National Security Law & Policy and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University School of Law in Washington, D.C.

Professor Huq is an Assistant Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar at the Law School. He earned his BA summa cum laude in international studies and French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his JD from Columbia Law School where he was awarded the John Ordronaux Prize. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and then for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Before joining the faculty, Professor Huq was the Director of the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School.

This talk was recorded on October 8, 2013, and sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society.