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Aziz Huq

Aziz Huq is director of the liberty and national security project at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. He is author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (New Press, March 2007), and a 2006 Carnegie Scholars Fellow

Recent articles


America’s torture policy: past and future

The long, brutal story of the United States’s physical violation of detainees in the name of "war on terror" is far from finished, says Aziz Huq.

Rendition and democracy: civil society's role

The system of transferring prisoners seized in the "war on terror" between secret locations around the world involves a new form of transnational injustice. Civil society must catch up, says Aziz Huq of the Brennan Center for Justice.

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