Aziz Rana

Aziz Rana is an American legal scholar and author who currently serves as Provost’s Distinguished Fellow and J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College Law School specializing in American constitutional law.

Education
Rana received his A.B. from Harvard College and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School where he was an Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow in Law. He returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. in political science, where his dissertation was awarded the Charles Sumner Prize.

Work
Rana is best known for his 2010 book The Two Faces of American Freedom, a work based on his PhD thesis which synthesized "American legal and political history from the outset of English colonizing until the present."

He also sits on the Council on Foreign Relations, is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and an editorial board member of both Dissent magazine and Just Security.

In 2022, Rana joined the faculty of Boston College Law School where his wife was an incoming dean. Prior to that he taught at Cornell Law School as Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law.