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.
[1] He returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. in political science, where his dissertation was awarded the Charles Sumner Prize.
[2] 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.
"[3] 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.
[4][5] In 2022, Rana joined the faculty of Boston College Law School where his wife was an incoming dean.