Aziz Rana is a Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. His book, The Two Faces of American Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2010) situates the American experience within the global history of colonialism, examining the intertwined relationship in American constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power and expansion. His current book manuscript explores the modern rise of constitutional veneration in the twentieth century — especially against the backdrop of growing American global authority — and how veneration has influenced the boundaries of popular politics.
Areas of Expertise: constitutional law, legal and political history, history of socialism, history of capitalism, legal and political theory, race and empire, immigration, critical legal studies, and critical race theory