Assistant Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Aziz Rana received his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard College and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He also earned a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard, where his dissertation was awarded the university's Charles Sumner Prize. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty, he was an Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow in Law at Yale. His teaching and research interests include constitutional law, comparative constitutional history (particularly situating the American experience among other post-colonial states), national security law, legal ethics, and democratic theory. Much of his writing focuses on how notions of republicanism and expansion shaped U.S. constitutional development. His book, tentatively titled "Freedom Without Empire: The Paradox of America's Settler Legacy," is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2010.
